If you’re playing the Manager, can you manage another player, or should you manage an NPW? If an NPW: will you not making any Wrestling Moves on their behalf (their stuff gets narrated), or can you narrate what you like when you have “control” and then hand it back without rolling anything, or do you just take part in non-wrestling bits?
One player has a great Manager idea, but want to make sure they’ll still be engaged. I can imagine messing with the Manager playbook to allow them to wrestle for themselves (while mostly being a mouthpiece).
Yes, manage another player!
If an NPW, you can be flexible to what makes sense at your table in terms of narration, but follow the fiction – you’re still playing the Manager, not the NPW, so they”d only roll for the Wrestling Move if the Manager gets in the ring and does something, right? They can still Work the Audience during the match to get them hyped up/into it, that kind of stuff.
Remember that NPWs can have Audience, cuz the Manager can potentially gain Audience for their client with their interference Move (and move them up the card!)
And remember that the Manager gets their +1 Audience when their client works a match with someone the Manager has +4 Heat with.
Make sense?
Ok. The Momentum they earn can only benefit their own moves really. Correct? (If it’s an NPW wrestler, there’s no move or finisher they can make.)
Correct, you can’t spend Momentum on anyone else (unless you’re in a tandem tag team or have a special Move allowing it)
I’m glad you asked. I was wondering the same. Heel manager vs Face is a classic trope and I wondered how that was designed to play at the table.
Also, when/how does the manager’s “finishing move” trigger? Does a match with a manager mean booking is always being overridden?
It triggers when they interfere because they see their client about to lose the match.
So, if their client is booked to win, then it’s probably not going to be relevant!
And so, there is no “finishing move” roll if your NPW client is booked to win.
An aside: are there any notable Face Managers?
Yes, correct. Unless you engineer a situation where you think it’s obvious they’re going to lose?
Miss Elizabeth!