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I posted earlier how I’d like to have all the players reveal a bit of background about their characters.

I posted earlier how I’d like to have all the players reveal a bit of background about their characters. I’ve decided to make this part of the Promotion Advancement. As the promotion gains audience aspects of the “real lives” of the characters begin to surface and may be starting to impact their careers.

When an Audience reset occurs all characters roll and reveal some aspect of their lives’ off screen:

On a 10+ Choose 2 on a 7-9 Choose 1:

You have some interesting friends: Introduce an NPW to play as a Guest Star in a future episode;

Everyone knows: for the current episode, when you reference this aspect you may roll +Real when you cut a promo.

You’ve gained a following: Gain an Enforcer, Valet or Manager

In The News: Your name gets picked up in some harmless news stories, giving you some name recognition in the area along with some storyline fodder. Make creative set up an out of the ring segment for you.

Remember that one time?: Someone grants you a favor, with a catch.

On a botch, they use it against you, Choose:

Not cool bro: You’ve made a new enemy;

Not exactly how it happened: Rumors spread about your past

You’ve been hacked : something has leaked to the public putting you in a bad position with the locker room or management

In an upcoming HEW episode I’d like to have all the players reveal a bit of background about their characters.

In an upcoming HEW episode I’d like to have all the players reveal a bit of background about their characters. I’d like to somehow incorporate into a Top of the Card move with only fictional results.

I need some help for the partials and botches:

10+ Choose:

You have some interesting friends: Introduce an NPW to play as a Guest Star in a future episode;

You know what’s best for business: make Creative book you in a match with stipulations;

Everyone knows: you may roll +Real when you cut a promo for this episode.

You’ve gained a following: Gain an Enforcer, Valet or Manager

7-9 Choose:

Let’s see where this goes: add stipulations to a match you’re not in

Remember that time: Someone grants you a favor, with a catch.

On a botch, they use it against you, Choose:

Not cool bro: You’ve made a new enemy;

Not exactly: Rumors spread about your past

You’ve been hacked : something has leaked to the public putting you in a bad position with the locker room or management

Origins is past and great fun was had by all.

Origins is past and great fun was had by all. I ran two ticketed events of WWWRPG and got a chance to play in one of games Nathan Paoletta was running. One of my goals in playing was to try to explore some backstage play.

The highlight was when my Veteran used the Respect the Business move to make the Golden Boy shake the Jobber’s hand after their match. This led to the Golden Boy spreading rumors about me which ended with my tag partner turning on me when he “heard” that I was sleeping with his girlfriend.

HEW S2E1 Highlights/notes

HEW S2E1 Highlights/notes

Pre Show:

Outlaw Jodie Wales (Joe Zantek ) and Prince Prawn (Justin Phillips )met with fans outside discussing the virtues of different snack flavors.

Henry J Husman and Outlaw met backstage to discuss the promotions financial woes and how the board was outlawing hardcore matches due to pending litigation

Show:

Boz Taggart (Adam Dunlop ) and DJ Monica Veronica (Adam Goldberg ) had a match where Ben Smith (James Reuben ) interfered after slooooowly making his way to the ring. The interference prompted Boz to lay him out.

Outlaw called out Prawn who refused to do the job. HJH attempted to rally the locker to go save the match, but no one responded. Outlaw eventually had enough and potatoed him.

A cameraman found Monica Veronica in a destroyed locker room staring at a picture of Ben Smith. Smith came upon the scene, but overcome with stage fright couldn’t mutter anything insightful to say and Monica stormed out. Ben Smith left the locker room as the camera panned to reveal Boz silently observing the scene.

Prior to Ben’s match, HJH pulled Boz aside and told him to “knock the stutter out of” Ben. During the handicap match between Ben Smith and Monica/Boz, Boz dislocated Ben’s shoulder. He then attempted to tag Monica, who refused and provided enough distraction for Ben Smith to get a roll up victory.

When asked to explain herself after the match, Monica cut a promo in which to cast off her foreigner gimmick and declared herself worthy of an HEW title. To which the estranged eXtreme BBQ Champion Deliscous Tommy Viscous responded by coming through the crowd to the ring and laying her out.

Post show:

Boz apologized to Ben and explained that he really needs to step it up to stay employed.

Outlaw and Prawn discussed their match and Prawn asked Outlaw to put in a good word for him.

Outlaw went to HJH with the intention of burying Prawn but ended up getting him put in a title program for the Outlaw’s championship.

Origins:

Origins:

Who’s going?

Last call to join the HEW Season 2 roster.

Last call to join the HEW Season 2 roster. Games play Tuesdays 8:30 EST. For Episode 1 we have so far an Anti-hero, Foreigner, Wasted and Clown confirmed and a Provocateur and two question marks as maybes.

HEW Season 2 detail post here:

https://plus.google.com/111146911641865666499/posts/2HN11t5BBTg

HEW Season 1 roster here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RIj-7B2eyFyHZLPtDmtUC1qVRxRwOf3-vyUbzfVSJFw/edit?usp=sharing

I’ll state again, don’t let the weekly runs deter you. If you only want to play here and there, I happy to work with that.

This message is Brainburg approved.

HEW Season 2

HEW Season 2

Having blown the HEW company coffers booking Arrowhead Stadium for the Lucha de Mayo extravaganza (as well as the legal battles that ensued following the eXtreme BBQ Battle Royal), Henry J Husman IV has been displaced as chairman of the board of Husman’s Potato Chips.

On hand for the financial debacle, Yasuo Nakata, CEO of rival snack manufacturer Calbee, has purchased a controlling interest in Husman’s and named himself the new chairman. HJH stepped aside with the caveat Henry would be allowed to maintain the HEW as a promotional vehicle. Nakata agreed, but appointed his loyal daughter Yamashita as CFO with a tight grip on the HEW purse strings.

Henry is committed to getting his company back and he is convinced he can use the success of the HEW to do it. This season it’s all on the line for titular owner, Henry J. Husman IV and the superstars of Husman’s Extreme Wrestling. Can they once again elevate the HEW brand to it’s former greatness and go on to return Husman’s Potato Chips to Mrs. Husman’s baby boy?

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HEW Season 1 was good fun, with many botched rolls, zany promos, kayfabe breaking and audience advances. This season (at the inspiration of Jason Cox ) I’ll be add some flair to the audience reset to showcase the struggle for control of the parent corporation. I haven’t quite figured it out yet, so suggestions are welcome.

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HEW plays every tuesday night at 8pm EST. I will be sending out invites later this week, if you’d like one send me a note. I’m comfortable with a rotating roster so if you can’t make it every week that’s fine. Returning players will have gimmick preference and can be discussed on the event page.

Great bit of armchair analysis, I thought I’d share here.

Great bit of armchair analysis, I thought I’d share here. The Shoot-worked-shoot-worked injuries are great story telling. The odd dub by Zayn wednesday gave us a peek that not all is as it seems.

Originally shared by Chip Colandreo

Perhaps pro wrestling is at its best when we don’t know whether we’re being worked or not…

Last night’s episode of NXT – in which Kevin Owens tells Sami Zayn that he knows Sami is hurt and will exploit that injury at TakeOver – was taped weeks ago, long before Sami’s “shoulder injury” Raw match with John Cena. I was at the taping and remember being intrigued by this mysterious kayfabe injury to SZ.

Then Raw happened and, work or shoot, the injury to Sami’s shoulder wasn’t a mystery anymore. In fact, for last night’s NXT broadcast, the production team added a (pretty bad) voice dub of Sami acknowledging the Cena match and the injury but promising to face KO at TakeOver anyway.

So, the question is this: Is the whole thing an incredibly elaborate work, one written to span a month’s worth of time and two different WWE programs? If so, that’s some of the best story construction this company has put together in years.

Or, is it a “work gone wrong”? A kayfabe story about an injury that suddenly became all too real, forcing the reality to be written back into the fiction.

The whole thing – the backstage and the on-screen – is entertaining as heck, and this is what makes wrestling at once so awesome and so perverse. For several hours every week, we watch men and women appear to suffer life-threatening injuries. The performers’ ability to make it all look so real and convincing while simultaneously keeping each other safe between the ropes is the facet of this art form I enjoy the most. That they can tell a compelling story at the same time is more incredible still.

No one combines all these talents better than Sami Zayn. If he really is hurt, I hope it’s not too serious. If it’s a work… Boy, it’s one of the best I’ve ever seen.

What do you guys think?

Does it make sense to remove the add +1 to a stat advance and encourage the players to instead take (or create) a…

Does it make sense to remove the add +1 to a stat advance and encourage the players to instead take (or create) a stat boosting move from a Gimmick sheet. This would to be the same mechanically while adding to the fiction of the game. Win – win, or am I missing something?

So the manager’s Meal Ticket move.

So the manager’s Meal Ticket move. How is it supposed to work? Is it a booked thing or is it like the Heel move and they can just call it whenever? Or does it kick in whenever the Player wrestler performers a Finishing Move? How does it interact when it contradicts with the players Finishing Move or the Heel move?

I’m fine winging it and going with whatever feels right, but I’m looking for some clarity on how it reads or has played for others.