Tag: Nathan Paoletta

State of World Wide Wrestling RPG

Looks like it’s already time to print more books! I reached out to some retailers that I’ve had positive interactions with in the past, and the stock they want to order is taking up the rest of the books I have on hand.

This means that I’ve sold out of the 143 “extra” books I was able to print thanks to the Kickstarter. They went about 10% fulfilling KS backers, contributor and review copies; 40% direct sales and 50% into retail.

Basically, I’ve sold more books post-Kickstarter of WWWRPG than I generally sell out of my back catalog in a YEAR. That’s amazing.

PDF sales have been very strong as well.

Even better, we have an active but not insular (I think) community here, with you folks contributing your awesome ideas and having fun discussions. That’s huge for me, and really makes me happy to see.

In the wider internets, people are playing and talking about their play of the game, which is the lifeblood of small press publishing and I couldn’t be more pleased with.

So. A huge success story for me, as a creator and publisher, so far. And thank you all for being part of it. It’s rad. YOU ARE RAD. Keep it up!

Journeyman’s Cup Ep 7 Scheduling

Trying to nail down a time that works for Rohit Ramnath and Joe Zantek  so we can start getting some CLOSURE BABY.

Right now, the next workable day seems to be this coming friday 3/6. 7pm central time (8pm eastern), as per usual.

Jason Cox Peter Bothwick Stras Acimovic Matthew Caulder Adams Tower Joseph Le May – who can make it?

Again, since we’re aiming to start wrapping up this set of storylines, I would prefer not to add new folks at this time. Sorry! 

It’s Friday, let’s do something fun!

What’s your legit favorite move, and why? .gifs allowed and appreciated.

I dunno guys, every time I see Arn Anderson hit that Spinebuster part of me just cries out in joy. It’s so beautiful AND looks devastating.

Community Update

I’ve added a couple of categories to the community, since it seems like we do have a couple of evergreen topics that it would useful to be able to browse individually. 

Actual Play is for play writeups and links to actual play reports

Backstage Workshop is for custom Gimmicks, Moves and talking about nuts-and-bolts of making custom stuff or hacks for your game

You can see the categories listed in the left-hand column with the community info.

When you make a post you’ll see that you need to choose a category to post in. Everything that isn’t those two topics still just goes into Discussion

As far as I know I can’t retroactively assign posts to categories, so this is just a going-forward thing.

Cool? Cool!

Break It Down

Another really rad episode of NXT this week, if you have the network (or want to check it out, it’s free for this month) it’s worth watching. WWE posted a higlight reel of the main event, Adrian Neville vs. new champ Kevin Owens, which was a really, really good match. This clip cuts out a lot so you don’t get the sense of flow, but it actually preserves some really useful “mapping game-stuff-to-real-wrestling” moments. 

Owens starts with control.

:10, Neville Interrupts (with the kick) and takes control

:25, Neville builds up to the dropkick, rolls +Work , 7-9 and gives control to Owens, who narrates the Gutbuster counter

(clip jumps ahead in the match)

:35, Neville has control again, hits the 450 to the outside on +Look , hits on a 10+, holy shit chant from the audience!

(clip jumps ahead)

:45, Neville still has control. FEAT OF STRENGTH on a 10+ (or, possibly on a 7-9, doing it with obvious difficulty – if it was a 10+, the slow lift was part of putting it over, you know?)

(clip jumps ahead)

1:07: Owens with control again, gives it to Neville (or Neville interrupts) with the Superkick. Possibly could be going for a +Look wrestling Move and getting 7-9.

1:12: Neville with the (awesome) reverse ‘Rana rolling +Heat to work with Owens on it, 10+

1:26: Finish has been called, with Neville still in control. Goes for his Red Arrow finisher but Owens rolls out of the way, gives control to Owens to narrate the finish

1:30: Owens hitting his finisher pop-up Powerbomb on a 10+ for sure

The story of the whole match (which was 12 or so minutes, I think?) was that Neville built all the momentum and pulled out all the stops, but Owens never quits and all he had to do was find that one big power move to put Neville down. It was pretty rad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXMpGaW8UI4

Basic psychology breakdown of the “International” spot (I had no idea it had a name!)

Originally shared by Sarah Perry-Shipp

The Wrestling Hero’s Journey

the face’s journey? shit, I dunno

Because I’ve seen the World Wide Wrestling RPG pop up a lot around here (and got our own copy, thanks!), I figured this would be interesting to someone.

http://np.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/2w5b9h/breaking_down_the_psychology_of_the_most_common

I think I’m doing this right this time around…here’s the event for tonite! Participants will get an invite around 6.30 (central) or so, we’ll aim to get going around 7, we often don’t actually start till 7.15.

Originally shared by Nathan Paoletta

The SIXTH Episode in the ongoing World Wide Wrestling RPG Journeyman’s Cup Tournament storyline. After an epic Triple Threat Cage Match, the outlook for Prof. Atomo’s Wrestling Science is looking dimmer and dimmer.

El Escorpion made a big splash on his debut, throwing the cage match in the favor of the Graveyard faction – but what’s his real agenda?

Joey Crak and Brainburg return, and we have a special guest or two drop by as well!

Journeyman’s Cup Episode 6 Scheduling

I’ve heard that this coming TUESDAY 2/17 would be a good target evening for another Episode!

Jason Cox Peter Bothwick Stras Acimovic Joe Zantek Rohit Ramnath Matthew Caulder Adams Tower Joseph Le May 

Failing that, is there a better day for folks?

A Gimmick template is available! Scroll down on the WWWRPG page, right hand column.

There’s a .indd and an .idml file, and I linked to the header font (Cassanet). I set the template in Arial, which everyone generally has, or you can change it to whatever you want (change the Basic Text style and it will cascade throughout the document). I use Avenir Next, which is not cheap but is a great type, by the by.

Other than that, just replace basic text with your Gimmick’s stuff and you’re good to go!

Let me know if there’s problems/questions.

Peter Bothwick Richard Browne Adam Goldberg brandon dingess 

http://ndpdesign.com/wwwrpg/

More audio AP!

Originally shared by Nathan Paoletta

Thanks to the crew at Six Feats Under for having me on to talk wrasslin’ and run a demo game of World Wide Wrestling! Here’s some direct links:

Pre-game chat about wrestling, roleplaying and how the two relate to each other: http://feats.podbean.com/e/world-wide-wrestling-rpg-podchat-show-wrestling-rpgs/

Making wrestlers: http://feats.podbean.com/e/world-wide-wrestling-rpg-part-0-filling-the-roster/

Part 1 (feat. Can Opener vs. Eve Young): http://feats.podbean.com/e/world-wide-wrestling-rpg-part-1-the-can-opener-vs-eve-young/

I believe the second part is coming up next week-ish!

http://13questions.tumblr.com/post/110998703818/match-es-of-the-centur-ies