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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.

8/3/2006 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.

8/2/2006 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.

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.

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.

7/7/2006 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

5/16/2006 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.

5/10/2006 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.

5/4/2006 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.

4/26/2006 Doc Blue: With Great Power - Online?
Has anyone run WGP online (I'm thinking Forum based, or play-by-email)?  Or does anyone have any thoughts around that?  I've got a hankering to try WGP, but my schedule won't…
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Participants: Doc Blue, chris_moore, Michael S. Miller, Brand_Robins, Kai_lord.

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.

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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.

7/24/2007 nedpatrick: Examples of struggles
I bought With Great Power... this summer and I am enjoying reading the rules.  The concept of the game blows me away, defintely not like the games I've played in…
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Participants: nedpatrick.

7/24/2007 Hans: The Struggle, and the aspects on each side
I think these are very simple questions, and I am embarrassed that I cannot find the answers in the book: * Other than giving a thematic center for a session…
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Participants: Hans, Eero Tuovinen, Michael S. Miller.

7/30/2007 Hans: [WGP...] Supervillian teams, plus a question
Hi all: I guess I'm the new buyer, so I will be the one asking questions. :) * Supervillain teams:  I can see different ways to work this.  1) Each…
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Participants: Hans, WildElf, Michael S. Miller.

8/10/2007 Veritas Games: PDF Discount for Preview Edition Buyers
Is there some discount on the full PDF for those of us who purchased the preview/interim edition? Or do we pay full price for the upgrade? I couldn't find this…
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Participants: Veritas Games.

9/6/2007 Eliarhiman6: [WGP] [non-rpg] Spider-Man and other Marvel Comics as a Story
Hi! I am taking advantage of a seldom-used rule that allow the posting of non-rpg related super-hero discussions in this forum: Unlike elsewhere on…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

9/8/2007 James_Nostack: Morrison-esque meta-fictional villain?
So I've got this character in my head for the Rogues Gallery, and I'm not sure how to define his super-power, which is, essentially, to perplex the hell out of…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Michael S. Miller.

11/9/2007 divineseeker: Devestated Aspects and GM Control: A Question
Dear WGPers I would just like to clarify the power a GM has over a player's devastated aspects I may have misread the book, but once devasted aspects are handed…
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Participants: divineseeker, Hans, Michael S. Miller.

11/17/2007 Nev the Deranged: Escape Pod: Union Dues
So, Escape Pod is one of my favorite short-fiction webcasts. There's a series of stories on there about a "Superhero Union", set in a very morally grey universe, which is…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged.

11/19/2007 grimmbear: Thanks for 2 great games!
Hi Mike and Kate! I just wanted to say you made my Philcon for me. I had gone not expecting any gaming except board gaming but was very pleasently surprised…
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Participants: grimmbear, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller.

12/8/2007 Mel_White: [WGP] Nittany Game Invasion
One of the games we played at the Nittany Game Invasion was With Great Power.  The American showed up as a player character as the 'Fighting Governor' trying to keep…
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Participants: Mel_White.

4/14/2008 WildElf: [WGP] An error in judgement with conflict set up.
So, I ran my first session of WGP and it sort of flopped.  At least, the conflicts did. I had the villains pick a fight with the two PCs, and…
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Participants: WildElf, Michael S. Miller.

5/12/2008 steven807: [WGP] First session
3 of us just gave WGP a whirl.  One long session (almost 7 hours, made longer by the fact that we weren't expecting to play it, so no one knew…
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Participants: steven807.

7/7/2008 Kat Miller: Web page update
Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let people know there has been a web page update. The downloads page has new items on it and the downloads have been improved so…
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Participants: Kat Miller, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, Michael S. Miller, Hisho.

7/15/2008 Mysterio: Need Help!! New to WGP and could use assistance.
I just went to Origins in Ohio and I bought the game on after hearing about its mechanics… I thought some of my friends would like the change since we…
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Participants: Mysterio.

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