The idea is brilliant with fans responding with positive glows! So here’s to yet another collectible edition. Are you in the DECK? GET IN THE DECK! -INDIE DECK! If you’re NOT in the DECK, you’re not trying hard enough!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. ……….………..……….. HOW TO PLAY
2. ……….………..……….. BATTLE CARDS / CHARACTER CARDS
3. ……….………..……….. FORMS OF BATTLE 
4. ……….………..……….. CHARACTER CARD BATTLE
5. ……….………..……….. DIRECTOR BATTLES
6. ……….………..……….. DIRECTOR CARDS
7. ……….………..……….. DIRECTOR BONUS
8. ……….………..……….. DIRECTOR KNOCKOUT
9. ……….………..……….. DIRECTOR-LESS LOSS
10. ……….………..……….. TEAM CARDS
11. ……….………..……….. WILDCARDS
12. ……….………..……….. CLASSES
13. ……….………..……….. ATTRIBUTE
14. ……….………..……….. GAME MAP
15. ……….………..……….. LOCKDOWN
16. ……….………..……….. MATCHING CARDS
17. ……….………..……….. TYPES OF PLAY

HOW TO PLAY

THIS GAME PLAYS LIKE “UNO” BUT THE CARDS FIGHT! 

IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE. THE REASON WHY THE INSTRUCTIONS SEEM LIKE A LOT IS THAT WE WANTED TO BE EXTRA THOROUGH AND BREAK EACH ACTION DOWN INTO ITS OWN EXPLANATION.

HOW TO START 

Dealing: Player-One deals FIVE CARDS to each player. These cards are placed in the player’s hand. Each player must choose ONE CHARACTER CARD as their DIRECTOR. Each player then places that card in the Director Seat. 

The dealer then deals FOUR CARDS DOWN to each player. These cards may not be viewed by any player, and are placed in the respective LockDown areas. 

The remaining cards are placed in the Action Deck.

The First Move: Player-Two then goes first by placing either a CHARACTER CARD or a WILDCARD in the Battle Arena Area.

The Second Move: Player-One, the dealer, must now respond by playing a MATCHING CHARACTER CARD or WILDCARD or if the player does not have a either, they must DRAW ONE from the ACTION DECK.

The Third Move: Once each player has played a CHARACTER CARD that matches their opponents, those two cards must battle. (See CHARACTER CARD BATTLE)

How-To-Win: The first to empty all the cards from their hand and from their LOCKDOWN, wins the game.

BATTLE CARDS / CHARACTER CARDS

The words “BATTLE CARDS” and “CHARACTER CARDS” are interchangeable. These are cards that feature CHARACTERS that can be played in the center battle arena. They can attack and have CLASSES and ATTRIBUTES.

FORMS OF BATTLE

There are only two forms of battle in POWERVERSE CROSS PLAY. Those are CHARACTER CARD BATTLES and DIRECTOR BATTLES.

CHARACTER CARD BATTLE 

Starting A Battle: A CHARACTER CARD BATTLE is initiated by the first player (normally the Non-Dealer) playing a CHARACTER CARD/BATTLE CARD. This is done by laying A CHARACTER CARD in the battle arena face up. The opponent must then play a MATCHING CARD right beside the opponent’s card. (look up MATCHING CARDS). 

Attacking: Now that both cards are played and match, each player must now roll two dice (These rolls are called ATTACK ROLLS). 

Deciding The Winner: The total number of each two dice roll is the card’s Attack Roll. Apply the BATTLE CARD’S ATTACK BONUS and its SPECIAL ABILITIES (look up SPECIAL ABILITIES) and the outcome is YOUR TOTAL ATTACK ROLL. The highest remaining number wins that hand of battle. 

Losing A Battle: The Loser turns his card over. It remains face down in the Battle Arena.

Winning The Battle: STEP ONE- Now that you are the winner of a CHARACTER CARD BATTLE, if you have any cards in LOCKDOWN, you may UNLOCK one of your LOCKDOWN CARDS and place it in your hand. STEP TWO- The winner can now play any CHARACTER CARD or WILDCARD they choose as a benefit of winning the battle.

STEP THREE- After the winner has played, it is the opponent’s turn to play. Repeat steps TWO and THREE.

DIRECTOR BATTLES

What is a Director Battle: Normally, all the fighting is done by your regular Battle Cards in the circular Battle Arena located in the middle of the Game Map (See Game Map). Director Battles differ from normal battles because Directors fight directly against one another, without any Battle Cards interfering. In these battles no other cards functionally exist except for the two opposing Directors!  

Initiating A Director Battle: A Director Battle starts when a CHALLENGE card is played. It can be played as either the first card or as a responding WILDCARD to an opponent’s battle card. Once a Challenge Card is laid, all other game play stops, and the battle between Directors now begins.

Director Battle Rules: The rules for Director Battle are exactly the same as CHARACTER CARD BATTLE Rules. 

Losing A Director Battle: The loser must DRAW 4 cards from the ACTION DECK as a losing penalty. After this, the losing player turns over his or her Director Card and must then choose a new Director from his hand to place on top of his defeated director.

Replacing Your DIrector: Any CHARACTER CARD may take the Director Seat and does not need to Match the Prior Director in any way. If the player does not have a CHARACTER CARD to replace his Director, this is called DIRECTOR-LESS PLAY. If your opponent Challenges you to a Director Battle and you do not have a Director in seat, You LOSE the game instantly. This is called a DIRECTOR-LESS LOSS.

Winning a Director Battle: The winner must turn over his Director Card and replace it with a New CHARACTER CARD. Any CHARACTER CARD may take the Director Seat and does not need to Match the Prior Director in any way. 

If the Winner does not have a CHARACTER CARD to replace his Director, this is called DIRECTOR-LESS PLAY. If your opponent Challenges you to a Director Battle and you do not have a Director in seat, You LOSE the game instantly. This is called a DIRECTOR-LESS LOSS.

THE WINNER MUST NOW PLAY ANOTHER CARD OF THEIR CHOOSING INTO THE BATTLE ARENA.

When the DIRECTOR BATTLE winner plays their next regular BATTLE CARD, the game returns to regular CARD BATTLE.

DIRECTOR CARDS

What Are Director Cards: Director Cards are CHARACTER CARDS that are in charge of your team and its fight-for-freedom! Director Cards sit OUTSIDE the main Battle Arena and direct the cards in play. In short, these cards act like YOU! 

What Types Of Cards Can Be Directors: Director Cards can ONLY BE CHARACTER CARDS! The Director Slot can not be held by a WILDCARD or a TEAM CARD or a CHALLENGE CARD, Only Hero or Villain CHARACTER CARDS.

Special Director Cards: Director Cards are always CHARACTER CARDS. All CHARACTER CARDS have special abilities. However, some Battle Cards have SPECIAL DIRECTOR ABILITIES. These are normally highlighted with a YELLOW TAG on the lower left side of the card, stating “DIRECTOR BONUS.” 

DIRECTOR BONUS

A Director Bonus is a unique capability that allows a Director to extend some, or all, of their Special Abilities down to their regular Battle Cards in play. Read each card to see what those abilities may be.

DIRECTOR KNOCKOUT 

Each time a DIRECTOR wins a DIRECTOR BATTLE, they gain a +1 to each of the BATTLE CARD’s overall attack roll. This helps BATTLE CARDS get a little extra boost to their attacks. This can be tracked on the BATTLE MAP’s DIRECTOR KNOCKOUT BAR. If you’re playing without a map, use pennies to keep track of your DIRECTOR wins. 

Get FOUR DIRECTOR WINS, you will also WIN the game via what is called a DIRECTOR KNOCKOUT!

DIRECTOR-LESS LOSS

If the Winner or Loser of a Director Battle does not have a CHARACTER CARD to replace their Director, this is called DIRECTOR-LESS PLAY. If your opponent Challenges you to a Director Battle and you do not have a Director in seat at that time, You LOSE the game instantly. This is called a DIRECTOR-LESS LOSS. 

TEAM CARDS

TEAM CARDS can be played at any time and do not need to “MATCH” any card to be played. TEAM CARDS cannot be DIRECTORS.

WILDCARDS

WILDCARDS can be played at any time and do not need to “MATCH” any card to be played. WILDCARDS cannot be DIRECTORS.

CLASSES

There are SIX different classes of the Battle Cards that cover a range of character archetypes. 

DEFENDER:   Street Level, Gritty, and more often Brooding, hero or villain.

CHAMPION:   Overt, Publicly Known, Brightly Lite, Primary Colored Symbols and Icons 

COSMIC:   Beyond Normal, Exotically Powered, Supernatural, or Extra Worldly

TECH:   Gadgeteers, Makers, Gunslingers, and Heavily Armored Combatants

WILDCARDS:         Unclassified, Rule Breakers, and Momentum Shifters

CHALLENGE CARDS: Call To Arms, Come Out & Fight Cards, that taunt the opposing Director.

ATTRIBUTES

The Attributes slot in POWERVERSE CROSS PLAY are a battle card’s most profound quality and/or characteristic relative to the card’s displayed character.

WITS:    This character has keen perception, apprehension, and intellect.
POWER: This character has energetic prowess and charge.
SPEED:  This character’s movements and response time is phenomenal.
ARMOR: This character’s durability and ability to take physical punishment is amazing.
MIGHT:  This character’s strength is impressive to say the least.
FIGHT: The sheer ferocity of this character’s attack is intense and intimidating.
HALO:       Something about this persona has high ethereal and metaphysical illure.
WILL: This means your card possess a determination factor higher than most
EVENT: These are WILDCARDS that cause events to take place in the game play. 

TEAM: Heroes or villain groupings that have high attack rolls and special abilities

GAME MAP

BATTLE ARENA   ……… This is where Character/Battle CHARACTER CARD BATTLES takes place

DIRECTOR SEAT ……… This is where the Director Card is placed

ACTION DECK     ……… This is where the Draw Deck is placed

LOCKDOWN       ……… These are areas where your cards are place when in LockDown

LOCKDOWN

This is a restricted area where cards are not allowed to participate in the game play until they are freed from LOCKDOWN. (See CHARACTER CARD BATTLE / Winning The Battle )

MATCHING CARDS

Cards “MATCH” or are playable against one another only if they have the SAME CLASS or SAME ATTRIBUTE.

TYPES OF PLAY

There are many ways one can PLAY POWERVERSE CROSS PLAY. We will highlight THREE.

EASY MODE: ( SPEED ) – great for fast fun games and kids will love it. 

This form of play has no CHARACTER CARD BATTLES. You only need to “MATCH” cards and they are no dice rolls. Cards are not placed side by side but on top of each other as the opponents play. A match is considered a CHARACTER CARD BATTLE WIN. A winning match UNLOCKS CARDS just the same. The only true battle that remains in this version is DIRECTOR BATTLES.

NORMAL MODE: ( RPG ) – It’s a longer play and individual character abilities matter. 

You play the game as described in the directions.

HARD MODE: ( Director’s WIld ) Provides a more complex game play.

In Director’s Wild, it’s the same game play as RPG but this mode turns playable cards that MATCH your DIRECTOR’s CLASS into WILDCARDS as well.

After launching and building and then having it all fall apart, we’ve learned a lot of lessons. First, even though we want to help all indie artist, they all don’t want to help us. That was a tough lesson. After learning many more, we’ve gather our must and have pulled ourselves out from under the ashes.

There’s a new day in THE PV and you’ll be seeing much more of it very soon! Until then, thanks, and remember, -Be POWERFUL!

Vince White
Creator and Creative Director
THE POWERVERSE

THE POWERVERSE’s mission is the unification of the indie market because we believes all indie creators are stronger together. That strength comes in creators of all levels and not just those of great skill. So to address this, THE POWERVERSE introduces POWERVERSE NEBULA, a place for growing stars!

Cover images for sample use only

NEBULA will be an anthology series composed of several two to three page stories featuring all manner of artist and creators with a particular spotlight on contributors who just might be learning the ropes. NEBULA is for the creator that is doing it all him or herself! It’s for the artist and writer whose style may not be status quo.

In NEBULA, your story can be black and white or in full color. It can be inked with ball-point pen or digitally painted to perfection! NEBULA stories could continue over several issues or be just one page. NEBULA is whatever you make it!

So if you are a creator who’s just starting out or maybe someone whose day-job/life just isn’t conducive to producing large amounts of work, then POWERVERSE NEBULA is calling for you!

Send in your submission today or for more information about POWERVERSE NEBULA, email us @ THEPOWERVERSE@GMAIL.COM subject NEBULA. RISING! We are excited to see what stars are comic to light!

Until next time -Be POWERFUL!

THE POWERVERSE IS HERE!!!!

WHAT IS THE POWERVERSE!
The fact that the indy market has had a long history of creating individual titles, one-offs, and/or a few small collectives, has always caused it to be a market overlooked. Never has there been a movement to coalesce a large number of indie creators and characters into a single massive universe… until now! THE POWERVERSE has done just that!
Comprised of indie creators from from all over the globe, THE POWERVERSE (or TPV for short) has creators from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and The U.S.A. The universe has it’s own cosmology that is explained in its first Title release “THE POWERS THAT BE!” This AVENGERS-like title It tells the tale of how these diverse host of characters can somehow share one massive indie universe! The exposition of this scenario is done so with a twist!

THE POWERVERSE has a number of titles slated for release this year and beyond! The title list thus far includes: THE POWERS THAT BE!, THE GLOBALIST, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, ROBO1 Defender of Earth, DYNAMO AZAAN, BLACK OUT, and THE ACTION PACK! If this isn’t enough to make your mouth water, TPV has plans to sign classic indie creators and revamp some of their classic independent I.P.s going as far back as the 1990’s.

Could all this goodness be true! It is! The release list of creators boasts of: JAY KELLEY, NIGEL FLOOD, RODNEY JEAN-ETIENNE, BRIAN MARK WILLIAMS, JAY PISCOPO, ANDRE BATTS, C.R. WARD, JUSTIN CRISTELLI, ROOSEVELT PITT JR., GRIM RASCAL, TONY KITRELL, KEITH JACKSON, ERIC LEGGS SR, JIBA MOLEI ANDERSON, and VINCE WHITE (Editor-n-Chief).
learn more at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vincewhite/the-powerverse-is-here?

“SOMETHING LIKE A NEW IMAGE…”

You begged Marvel, You pleaded to DC, You thought IMAGE was going to make it happen, You even dreamed Milestone would come back! They will, but WE DID IT FIRST!

Lucius Hammer Experiencing A Rude Awakening To THE POWERVERSE!

“SOMETHING LIKE A NEW IMAGE…”
Yes! THE POWERVERSE may prove to be just that.
With a respectable line up of both old and new Indy characters; THE POWERVERSE, or TPV for short, might just pack a punch that could leave a mark! Centered around Vince White’s: “THE LEGEND OF WILL POWER” and the events that took place in its issue #1 the universe is now porous and now the multi-verse finds itself closer than ever before. THE POWERVERSE kicks off officially in THE LEGEND OF WILL POWER issue #8 and its new debuting story arc: “THE COMBINATION EFFECT!”, hero’s from around the Indy market have to come together to defeat a greater foe. The after effects leave a porous multi-verse the likes of which you’ve never seen! THIS IS THE POWERVERSE!

WHO’S IN?
GOOD QUESTION:
Key creative teams said to be included in this crossover, slash, new cosmography with a twist include Roosevelt Pitt, Brian Williams, Nigel Flood, Tony Kittrell, Justin Cristelli, Jiba Molei Anderson, Jay Kelley, Jay Piscopo, Andre Batts, and more…

The Heat Is On As Red Knight, Sea Ghost, And Lucius Get Into The Mix!

DREADLOCKS, and DIRECTOR KEY look over THE POWERVERSE’S “EMPOWERED!”

The list of new additions and indy-heroes does not appear to be finite, either.

EXPANSION IS HAPPENING!
According to POWERVERSE higher-ups, TPV is opening its universe doors to all creators willing to come. All you need is a character, a love for comics, and the desire to push the books your hero appears in!

Not a bad deal for the endless pool of up-and-coming comic book creators, artists, and writers alike!  This is everything you’ve hope for…. Bone up on the indy series that started it all: THE LEGEND OF WILL POWER and stay tuned to all our media outlets:

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/thelegendofwillpower
Twitter
https://twitter.com/WILLPOWER4
website
http://willpowercomic.com
YouTube
THE POWERVERSE CHANNEL

There’s so MUCH to THE LEGEND OF WILL POWER, you’ll be amazed!

There’s a new Hero for a new exciting millennium out there! His name is William Power, the dynamically powerful teenage superhero more lovingly known as WILL POWER! He is the creation of myself, Vince White! What I wanted to do with WILL POWER was a true homage to the hero-dom of yesteryear yet giving a clear nod to the wildly, sometimes dark esoteric tropes of today’s comics and cartoons! WILL POWER is classic, fun, fast past, and rooted in the mysterious yet powerful veins that run through our POWERFUL universe! So Fear NOT “True Believers”, you finally have a refuge for hope, nostalgia, and comic book renaissance in THE LEGEND OF WILL POWER!

The Legend Of Will Power Universe has many cool technologies that are by Products of the FLASH! One is “AQUATIC-X!”

Commander Luscious J. FRAME is Leader of October and the USS Naval air-sub fleet, for good reason. besides his mysteriously genetically modified body, Frame is known for his unorthodox military strategic mind. Believing all combat assets have extended military applications, he built October from the lesser gifted or unwanted recruits slated for discharge. taking “FLASH-BLOOD” troops with odd or non-applicable powers, frame would find unique methods to utilize their maximum effectiveness on the battlefield! it’s this type of thinking that led to the creation of the naval air-sub.

“Frame is known for his unorthodox military strategic mind.”

When Washington’s budget-cuts led to the scheduled demolition of Vietnam war class submarines, commander frame lobbied the department of defense, stating he could still find a modern use for the ghost fleet. combining the use of “AQUATIC-X” (a heavy water liquid created in the “flash”  that possessed an expanded hydrogen molecule which made the liquid lighter-than-air) he created a ballast system which utilized the aquatic-x compound that allow the old  submarine fleet to float. The rest is history…

To see this is comic book action, get the issue where there first appear here>>>

So, there I was, invited to a Private Gala, where The Legend Of Will Power was being honored with some of the top comic book greats and a few of those who were really making waves in the comic industry!

SOME DREAMS DO COME TRUE!

Who knew I would be honored, displayed beside, and privately hanging out and having laughs with the likes or Kyle Baker, Steven Geppi, John Jennings, Eric Battle, Michael Davis, Denys Cowans, Josh Geppi, The Overstreet Editorial staff,

and Bad Boy Studios… When they lined up to take the picture, I didn’t go… because they called the “greats” to get in! At the last moment, Deny Cowans looked over and said:

“Vince, get over here! You’re one of us too! You deserve to be in here. That’s why we invited you!”

So at the last minute they pulled me into the back row! See me peeking my head out! ha ha ha!

Wow! it was such fun! So many great Artist in that room, the interactions and connection made that night will and is having a profound effect on the coming comic book industry!

My ART Work will be on display here until April 2015 along with pages I wrote featuring the art of Leonardo Colapietro, Marco Pagnotta, and Larry Stroman, all of whom have drawn Will Power pages for me in the past! This was an honor and a Blast!

Be Sure to Visit the Museum Steve Geppi is the owner of Diamond Distributions and is the man responsible for building the largest global comic book distribution network in the world! He exhibits have the FIRST Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man collections as well as a multitude of other attractions!

To understand more about this exhibit, watch this video: http://vimeo.com/96879349