See Issue X

"When i started listening, i was like, "Damn, @potatocubed has made a game that every superhero podcast should play" and by the end of it i was going, "OKAY SO I NEED TO GET THIS AND MAKE A NEW MULTIVERSE" 
-- Brandon Leon-Gambetta,  author of Pasión de las Pasiones, host of Protean City

"@potatocubed made an AMAZING single-player game that captures the love, joy, nonsense, and chaos of superhero comics, and it is legit one of my favorite RPGs"
-- Jeff Stormer, host of Party of One (after playing See Issue X here)

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Telling superhero stories is easy, right? Just come up with a name, some powers, a personal hook or two, and you're good to go!

Sure. But what about twelve issues in? Or fifty? Or two hundred issues, three alternate timelines, one death-and-rebirth, and a handful of holiday specials which may or may not be canon? How easy is it then?

See Issue X is a tabletop roleplaying game where you will both tell the story of a superhero (or several) and also stand in the shoes of the writer as you struggle with their ever-more-unwieldy backstory. When the grey aliens threaten the Earth, that's one thing. When they kidnap Aunt Harriet's dog, that's... a little odd, but you can sell it. When they bring the hero back from the grave because of their shared love of board games, you know you're working with real comic book nonsense.

Luckily, this is cape comics: the nonsense is the bit we love best!

See Issue X can be played as a solo journalling game or as part of a group where everyone has their own character. Even better: you can play solo, take your character to join a group for a team-up event, then go back to playing them solo -- or knock out a few solo adventures between regular group sessions as part of your own continuity!

You will need the game pdf, a regular deck of playing cards you don't mind defacing (or 52 blank index cards), and a good pen for defacing playing cards with. If you don't want to deface playing cards you can use a normal deck, card sleeves, and scrap paper. Or you can use the macro-enabled Excel file bundled with the pdf and whatever computer-based writing tools you like, because I'm a huge nerd.

(As a note, the Excel file hasn't been rigorously tested and so is likely buggy as hell. I will be available for technical support on a 'when I get a moment' basis.)

If you want to know how the game plays Big Gay Nerds have played it on-air (part 1, part 2) and I played through a couple of arcs on Twitter as a way of showing how it works (arc 1, arc 2).

Yes.