Let’s Workshop a Move

Let’s Workshop a Move

Let’s Workshop a Move

I need a custom Move for Keith Senkowski ‘s takeover of our Wednesday Night Wars game. His wrestler is leading a revolution against the WWW management.

It’s a work, so we need some structure for it!

I’m thinking:

Note your Audience at the top of the Episode. When you rebel against authority or leverage your position as a malcontent, spend Momentum 1-for-1 to: book any match you want (including outcome); interfere in a match without making the Run-In Move; set up a segment of your choice; gain +1 Heat with the person you’re addressing; interrupt any segment and cut a promo (make the Cut a Promo Move separately). At the end of the Episode, if you haven’t gained Audience, you lose 1 Audience. 

Thoughts?

9 thoughts on “Let’s Workshop a Move”

  1.  book any match you want (including outcome)

    Would that force other players to stick to script?  Is there a move for going off script?*

    * I apologize if this is covered and I just haven’t read it yet

  3. Referring to the bolded text – it confuses me a little because what Keystone’s “rebellion” is totally kayfabe. The management is probably rolling with it and figuring out how to promote and capitalize on it, just as they do with any improvised bit of brilliance by a wrestler. Is the point that the wrestler is really pushing it, doing his own promo via Tweets and stuff like that, and basically continuing to be unpredictable and effectively scripting, off the leash, episode after episode? That’s how it would make the most sense to me. And if that’s the case, then it has nothing to do with actually rebelling but with being a successful prima donna. The rebellion is the kayfabe; being your own manager/scripter is the reality, and what you’re seeking Audience with. It’s easy to confuse what Keystone is doing management-wise with Keystone’s Gimmick of being the Anti-Hero, so I’m suggesting that any Gimmick could be doing this.

    I also think that failing to get Audience in the context of this Move would bring some serious, explicit management backlash.

  4. My first thought is when I think “Move” I think Roll  + X and do things. I think you can clean up the move and reduce the complexity by spending things up-front rather than making someone remember accounting details at the end of the match.

    *When you rebel against authority or leverage your position as a malcontent* Roll + Work(?)Audience(?) and Lose 1 Audience.  On a 7-9 you may spend 1 Momentum to do any of the following. On a 10+ you may spend 3 Momentum.

    * Book any Match you want (including outcome)

    * Interfere in a match (without making the run-in Move)

    * Set up a segment of your choice

    * Gain 1 Heat with the person you’re addressing

    * Interrupt any segment and Cut a Promo

  5. Ron Edwards yah, this is all kayfabe, with maybe one of the potential consequences is getting some kind of backstage concession. It’s also meant to be a general move that anyone could do, not a Keystone/Anti-Hero specific custom move. 

    Tim Rodriguez  the “spend Momentum 1-for-1” model is already there for the Babyface and Heel Moves! Good point about the accounting details. Hrm.

  6. (still with bookkeeping, but)

    When you take over the show lose 1 Audience, then gain +2 Momentum. During the show, you can spend Momentum 1-for-1 at anytime to:

    * book a match (as Creative does)

    * interrupt a match or segment without having to make the Run-In Move

    * set up any backstage segment you want

    * gain 1 Heat with anyone who stands up to your self-declared authority

    If you end the Episode without having gained any Audience, pick one: you lose an additional Audience, or you face severe backstage consequences.

    If you gained any Advances this Episode, add this to the Advance list: 

    * extract a major backstage concession

  7. Thinking about it, you should be able to make matches, but Creative still books the finish. In the end, it’s still Creative’s show (to potentially break Kayfabe to actually overturn, of course).

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