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4/16/2006 Nathan Herrold: On reading alot of these posts, it seems really complicated...
um Mike, Nate again.  Maybe this isn't the game for me.  The "war" and "uno" seeming influenced mechanic seems just as distracting from story as rolling dice, and with as…
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Participants: Nathan Herrold, Kat Miller, Thor Olavsrud.

4/16/2006 Nathan Herrold: Hey Mike...I'm not sure if you remember me, I'm not sure if that matters...
Hey,     My names Nathan, you and your wife played with me in Scott L's superhero game, yes, it was a while back.  I was the Gorillian...and I've played…
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Participants: Nathan Herrold, Michael S. Miller.

4/5/2006 Neros Boot: TOMORROW!
I'll be ordering With Great Power tomorrow!  I'm officially as excited as a kid in a candy store 'bout tomorrow's order!  However, I have a few question 'tween then and…
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Participants: Neros Boot, Michael S. Miller, Valamir.

3/29/2006 klausok: "Yes, and ..."
The thing that I find really great about With Great Power (having read but not played it yet) is how it handles play balance. No fiddling with the cost of…
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Participants: klausok, Michael S. Miller.

3/24/2006 pfischer: Do you take superheroes seriously?
This is a question for Michael, as I have been asked this question discussing WGP on a Danish forum. Another participant wanted to know why you had chosen a superhero…
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Participants: pfischer, Brand_Robins, Valamir, Michael S. Miller, Spooky Fanboy.

3/20/2006 pfischer: WGP Demo at Conpulsion
Hi, I am demoing WGP the coming weekend at Conpulsion in Edinburgh, Scotland. I will be using Michael's Quick Demo Kit, but since I have an hour I can either…
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Participants: pfischer, coffeestain, Michael S. Miller.

3/19/2006 klausok: With Great Power - Questions
I have just bought and read With Great Power. It seems very interesting. I think I will try running a story with it. There are a couple of things I…
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Participants: klausok, Michael S. Miller, Thor Olavsrud, yogshog.

3/7/2006 yogshog: Rules Questions From Another Source
Before I start, I have to say "very very good game." I haven't been this excited to run a new game since I first bought Nobilis. Okay, so these questions…
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Participants: yogshog, Michael S. Miller, sourflower, enderbean.

3/1/2006 sourflower: Player Card Usage
What exactly can a player (hero) do when a card is played. Can the player narrarate how others are reacting to the circumstances or is that totally up to the…
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Participants: sourflower, Michael S. Miller.

2/24/2006 sourflower: Test game questions
I just received WGP and love reading it and can't wait to play it. I'm wanting to play a test game with my wife before playing with my normal group…
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Participants: sourflower, Michael S. Miller.

2/19/2006 Paul Strack: [WGP] Alternate Card Mechanics
I've had a chance to run the game now. I posted the Actual Play in the appropriate forum. One thing I tried out in the game was a modified conflict…
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Participants: Paul Strack.

2/15/2006 Paul Strack: GM Assessment in Conflict Scenes
More questions as I try to puzzle through the game. On p. 74 it says that a GM gets once opportunity to assess and increase/decrease suffering per "round" of panels.…
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Participants: Paul Strack, Michael S. Miller.

2/14/2006 Paul Strack: Game-mechanic questions
First off, let me congratulate Michael on a brilliant game. I have been surveying a lot of indie GM-less or GM-light alternative RPGs lately, and so far I like WGP…
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Participants: Paul Strack, Thor Olavsrud, Michael S. Miller, Kat Miller, Zamiel.

1/20/2006 dunlaing: Someone wants to be sold
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=5176209#post5176209 I only played the interim edition, so I tried to help out, but someone else really should go to this "sell me on" thread and pimp With Great Power...
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Participants: dunlaing.

1/19/2006 amel: pdf?
Hi Micheal, I am curious about the game since I first heard of it. But as I live overseas, I waiting for the pdf. Is there any chance, that it…
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Participants: amel, Michael S. Miller, DainXB, inthisstyle, Nathan P., Thor Olavsrud.

12/8/2005 Michael S. Miller: Ken Hite reviews With Great Power...
You can read the full Out of the Box review HERE. Ken also gives snappy capsule summaries of Tony Lower-Basch's Capes and Chad Underkoffler's Truth & Justice. My favorite bit:…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller.

11/26/2005 Ryanl42: Rules Question
Hi, I just received With Great Power in the mail and so far I'm loving it. However, I can't figure out how many cards a player is supposed to have…
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Participants: Ryanl42, Thor Olavsrud.

10/6/2005 Christopher Weeks: [WGP...] editing comments
Hi Michael and all, I'm reading through WGP... pretty carefully and I thought I'd start a place for me to note any comments, suggestions, etc as I hit them (so…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Michael S. Miller.

10/2/2005 Kai_lord: The Quest
Well, I played, and then bought WGP over the weekend, and I'd like input on a possible variant of the standard rules. Now, in the normal game, a player chooses…
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Participants: Kai_lord, Michael S. Miller.

9/30/2005 TonyLB: Review up at RPG.Net
Is this your first public review?
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Participants: TonyLB, Spooky Fanboy, Michael S. Miller.

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5/4/2006 Thunder_God: Regarding Reprinted WGP...
First of all, that is totally sweet of you. Second, it doesn't double the chances of me getting to play the game, but almost, so I'm glad as a pig…
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Participants: Thunder_God, Michael S. Miller.

5/10/2006 phredd: Some Dodgy Strife Aspects.
[b]My GGG players should not read this.[/b] I'm gearing up for a WGP come this Friday night at the last session of the current Gotham Gaming Guild run.  I took…
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Participants: phredd, Thor Olavsrud, Michael S. Miller.

5/16/2006 klausok: WGP Ganging up again
I am going to run a game of With Great Power as GM. We start the day after tomorrow. Actually I expect character creation to take all of the first…
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Participants: klausok, Kai_lord, Michael S. Miller, yogshog, Tindalos, Valamir, Brand_Robins, Austin Walker, Ludanto.

5/18/2006 Saile: Some questions (including "Another Approach to Ganging up")
Hi! I haven't played this game before, but I've heard good things about it and, having read the book, I am looking forward to trying it. However, I think there…
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Participants: Saile.

5/20/2006 klausok: Motivation aspects
We started character creation last Thursday. We did finish it, because not everybody showed up. Swapping back issues should be done with everybody present. We are 5 players, plus me…
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Participants: klausok.

6/7/2006 James_Nostack: Ranking Card: why's it important?
I am reading the PDF version of "With Great Power..." and did not immediately understand the importance of the "ranking card" in a conflict scene. As I understand it: the…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Brand_Robins, Michael S. Miller.

6/15/2006 Skywalker: An Experiment
I am currently running an experiment in which I am using WGP as a learning exercise for the Supers genre before tackling a Modern Age style Supers campaign using Mutants…
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Participants: Skywalker, inthisstyle, Michael S. Miller.

7/7/2006 Mr. Sluagh: [WGP] Best for Silver Age Games?
People keep saying that With Great Power is best for Silver Age-style games.  Why is this?  From what I've heard, it seems as if the story structure it encourages would…
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Participants: Mr. Sluagh, Michael S. Miller.

7/25/2006 xlii: [WGP] Joss Whedon's Firefly?
I remember reading that WGP had been playtested running Buffy the Vampire Slayer Games. I'm underwhelmed with the Official Serenity/Firefly RPG and was wondering if anyone had run a similar…
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Participants: xlii, Michael S. Miller.

7/31/2006 woodelf: still not clear on several of the rules
Ok, we're starting a game of With Great Power…, and i have a few bits of the rules that i haven't figured out yet. I think i've read all of…
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Participants: woodelf, Michael S. Miller.

8/2/2006 sourflower: Dice instead of cards
I purchased the game several months ago but being a traditional gamer I am having trouble getting players to try to give a game using cards a chance (and am…
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Participants: sourflower, Michael S. Miller.

8/3/2006 sourflower: Gencon
Will there be any games of WGP at Gencon next week? I would love to sit in on one.  I think it would be much easier to grasp the concepts…
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Participants: sourflower, Michael S. Miller.

8/3/2006 Jonathan Hastings: Trouble with a Conviction Strife Aspect
(The players in the WGP... game I am GMing should avoid this thread). So, James is playing the Hypernaut, a Green Lantern, cosmic cop type character (although with more trippy/new…
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Participants: Jonathan Hastings, Michael S. Miller.

8/22/2006 James_Nostack: aspects neither transformed nor redeemed?
Hi Michael-- in the end of our WGP game, one my aspects had been devastated, but we defeated the villain and devastated his Plan before I could redeem the aspect. …
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Participants: James_Nostack, Kat Miller, Michael S. Miller.

9/8/2006 WyzardWhately: Charater Concepts that WGP handles exceptionally well
I take the position that supers games necessarily handle some characters better than others.  Mayfair DC was horribly unfair to anyone wanting to play a sorceror.  HERO does speedsters fantastically…
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Participants: WyzardWhately, Kat Miller, Michael S. Miller.

9/22/2006 Solamasa: Making Devastated hero aspects suffer
On page 99 of the rule book, "Suffering--It Just Keeps Coming", three ways are listed for the GM to increase the Suffering of a Devastated hero aspect:  "In enrichment scenes,…
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Participants: Solamasa.

9/27/2006 Ron Blessing: [WGP] PDF vs. Print
What is the difference between the PDF and the print edition? I'm confused due to the different number of pages. Thanks!
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Participants: Ron Blessing.

9/30/2006 klausok: An example of play
It is now some time since we played the game. I hope this description interests you, even if it is not very positive. We spent two session creating characters. We…
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Participants: klausok, roguenforcer, Eero Tuovinen, Yokiboy.

10/5/2006 Solamasa: [WGP] Are our heroes doomed to failure?
Hello, We finished a great first issue of With Great Power... this week!  I'll leave the Actual Play report to Anna, but I have a couple of troublesome questions. Question…
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Participants: Solamasa, Kat Miller, Ludanto.

5/27/2007 Coleslaw: Character Sheet, Story Arc, etc PDFs
Hi all, I own the hardcopy of the game (WGP) and have finally got a small group of friends to play it.  I want to make some print offs of…
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Participants: Coleslaw, Yokiboy, Andy Kitkowski, Filip Luszczyk, Michael S. Miller, steven807.

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