Was thinking earlier how a campaign in the game could be more cooperative by creating some other promotions or territories than the group are competing with either with ratings or old fashioned bums on seats. So that as well as progressing player angles and storylines we still have a goal each week as a “company” to have gained more audience. What do you guys think? What would be the best way to score this? We could maybe add everyone’s final audience scores to determine how over the promotion is at the emdnof the session? And just randomly generate audience scores for any rivals? Just brain storming 🙂 I have some non wrestling fans in my gaming group who want to play and I thought this angle of working on a show might get the game over with them. In case the booking the winner mechanic of the game doesn’t. Would help non smart marks understand the business more?
Was thinking earlier how a campaign in the game could be more cooperative by creating some other promotions or…
Was thinking earlier how a campaign in the game could be more cooperative by creating some other promotions or…
Every time audience resets for the players it is because the promotion’s audience has grown. So the promotion could have an audience Stat starting at 1 which would increase as player audience resets. Other promotions would have their own ratings, and they might try to poach high audience wrestlers to prevent the player promotion from growing.
Yeah that could work!
That’s a nice and elegant idea!
For ease of reference you could call the promotion’s audience it’s Ratings. I’d suggest adding a hard move “increase a rival Promotions Ratings by 1” to the Creative list as well, to formalize it.
Invader gimmick, incoming…
Justin Hunt “outsider” gimmick?
A couple ideas:
Everyone gets an advance on a ratings increase
Hard move: The NPW with most heat leaves the roster
Yeah Nathan that’s a good shout! Justin an invader gimmick who has a move can call about a stable of invaders for the ultimate invasion angle. Probably quite into a campaign so we then have the top faces and heels working together against the invading stable perfect for some awkward promos and in ring tension, and from a backstage point of view how does the lower to midcard feel about talent from other promotions getting a main event push in their company while they tug the curtain? How much kayfabe would be broken as the backstage tension grows? Yesss.
This screams for regional organized play, with each region representing a ‘master promotion’, like a wierd mix of the NWA and D&D’s old Living Greyhawk organized play network.
Peter Bothwick I was thinking a similar thing, but along the lines of a convention style tournament.
Peter Bothwick “Sure you can bring your character to my Hangout game, but first I need to see you MAL (master advancement list)” LOL
My god, I have no interest at all in organizing regional play.
That said, if there’s opportunities for people play their wrestler in someone else’s game, they TOTALLY SHOULD
This is a pretty fantastic idea.
I’m probably crazy for asking, but does anyone want to try this at Origins? Event submissions due in a couple days…
For the record I’ll be at Origins Games-On-Demand and have the game ready to run there, as well…!
i’ll be… in the UK. but if you guys run this idea of mine let me know how it goes! some great suggestions will put a scenario like this together I think and post it up. may be good to add in to something ongoing