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efedding idea
12 years ago
I have made a journal post about this before, but that was almost four years ago so I think it's safe to talk about it again. :P
Wrestling e-feds have been a hobby of mine since 2001, starting with the UCTF that introduced me to this kind of concept. The UCTF involved crossovers from any kind of comic, movie, anime, game and so forth that you could think of, along with completely original characters. I had Fox McCloud in the UCTF for instance, along with Yugo Ogami (Bloody Roar series) and a character loosely based on The Magdalena (Top Cow Comics). They would have wrestling matches and so forth, written by assigned fight writers (it's not like the FWA in which you have full control over your character in what s/he does in the ring). The results are determined by your own writing skill on the week before the wrestling card finalizes, and judged by the head of the UCTF. Alas, after a few years the UCTF dwindled to nothing due to inactivity although I still keep in touch with the fed owner OOCly.
Then I went to the FWA courtesy of
Rusty who introduced me to the group. As evident by the previous journal I wrote, I'm still very much active there and it's very different from the UCTF in that the matches themselves are RP'ed out, not written by a third-party person. The FWA also differs from any other independent wrestling fed in that they lack an actual booker, a specialized referee (unless you count the auto-ref), and assigned matches on an event card like what a PPV would have. The matches are done mostly by 'I show up in the room and want to fight. Hey you, you wanna fight in the ring with me?' kind of invitations, but there are exceptions of course.
The temptation to actually start a fed of my own has crept back into my mind, and this time I want it to be different than the methods used by both the FWA and UCTF. This would be purely simulation, as the matches will not be RP'ed out (unless the players really want to do it, as I would be open to that but I would like to rewrite the match to fit the format of the event card), but the matches will also not be determined by writing skill. I would like for it to be a combination of an actual wrestling fed (as there will be a booker to determine who wins and who loses) and something akin to the FWA as there's nothing fake or scripted about the action there.
I'm thinking about having the match results due to the players involved picking numbers... I have physically two d20 dice, so basically it will be the luck of the draw, and also accurately choosing the winners in the TNA/WWE/ROH/DGUSA/etc PPVs as those events have the matches planned out beforehand with enough time for the players to pick them out before the PPV events start. What do you guys think? I used to be a fight writer for the UCTF so I've done plenty of match-type projects before, and on the application for the player prospects, I can put in what moves the character would most often use (and I can ask the players on what they would like to do in a match without giving out the spoilers on the results), what their behavior in the ring could be, etc. that can help me as a fight writer. I would have to figure out how to advertise... but only once I get this brainstormed and put into reality.
Wrestling e-feds have been a hobby of mine since 2001, starting with the UCTF that introduced me to this kind of concept. The UCTF involved crossovers from any kind of comic, movie, anime, game and so forth that you could think of, along with completely original characters. I had Fox McCloud in the UCTF for instance, along with Yugo Ogami (Bloody Roar series) and a character loosely based on The Magdalena (Top Cow Comics). They would have wrestling matches and so forth, written by assigned fight writers (it's not like the FWA in which you have full control over your character in what s/he does in the ring). The results are determined by your own writing skill on the week before the wrestling card finalizes, and judged by the head of the UCTF. Alas, after a few years the UCTF dwindled to nothing due to inactivity although I still keep in touch with the fed owner OOCly.
Then I went to the FWA courtesy of
Rusty who introduced me to the group. As evident by the previous journal I wrote, I'm still very much active there and it's very different from the UCTF in that the matches themselves are RP'ed out, not written by a third-party person. The FWA also differs from any other independent wrestling fed in that they lack an actual booker, a specialized referee (unless you count the auto-ref), and assigned matches on an event card like what a PPV would have. The matches are done mostly by 'I show up in the room and want to fight. Hey you, you wanna fight in the ring with me?' kind of invitations, but there are exceptions of course.The temptation to actually start a fed of my own has crept back into my mind, and this time I want it to be different than the methods used by both the FWA and UCTF. This would be purely simulation, as the matches will not be RP'ed out (unless the players really want to do it, as I would be open to that but I would like to rewrite the match to fit the format of the event card), but the matches will also not be determined by writing skill. I would like for it to be a combination of an actual wrestling fed (as there will be a booker to determine who wins and who loses) and something akin to the FWA as there's nothing fake or scripted about the action there.
I'm thinking about having the match results due to the players involved picking numbers... I have physically two d20 dice, so basically it will be the luck of the draw, and also accurately choosing the winners in the TNA/WWE/ROH/DGUSA/etc PPVs as those events have the matches planned out beforehand with enough time for the players to pick them out before the PPV events start. What do you guys think? I used to be a fight writer for the UCTF so I've done plenty of match-type projects before, and on the application for the player prospects, I can put in what moves the character would most often use (and I can ask the players on what they would like to do in a match without giving out the spoilers on the results), what their behavior in the ring could be, etc. that can help me as a fight writer. I would have to figure out how to advertise... but only once I get this brainstormed and put into reality.
