Does anyone else houserule that after a +4 heat match, you reset heat with one opponent? It’s how it works in other PbTA games and gives the virtuous cycle (4 heat>>1 aud), and how it works on air (if two people are going to fight again and grow their audience, there needs to be more promos setting up the rematch.)
Does anyone else houserule that after a +4 heat match, you reset heat with one opponent?
Does anyone else houserule that after a +4 heat match, you reset heat with one opponent?
No, I’ve never done that. It just doesn’t make fictional sense to me, how one great match can mean fans stop caring about a pre-existing storyline that has already been built up.
Just like in *AW, it means that the relationship has reached a New Level of intensity, not that it’s gone.
But by resetting it also makes the mechanical change of the wrestlers no longer being able to work together as well as they used too.
When your heat with someone is 1, that also means the fans don’t care about you interacting with that character. That’s why heat should reset after the finish of a fued.
Maybe each session, without interaction, heat dies down one point? And, if there’s feudal history, if bottoms out at one?