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Superstar Wrestling Alliance Of Georgia; Ongoing tabletop wrestling camapign
Topic Started: May 5 2017, 10:50 AM (112 Views)
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The OOC history:

My Friday night gaming group needed a backup game to run if that week's GM was not prepared. As I had gotten enough of them to become at least mildly interested in wrestling (or full-on fans), I decided to demo the old WWF RPG:
https://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=40

This was the game from which most of my early e-wrestlers came, such as The Outlaws and James Monosso. The demo went very well, and so the group has made characters for a campaign that will be a Georgia regional indy federation (largely because I wanted to fit it in our canon, for a richer game world).

Being a tabletop RPG where only half the players are wrestling fans, we have some crazy character concepts, so I may have altered some names to fit the world.

IC History:

An Atlanta-based investor group, looking to put together a programming package to sell to southern-regional sports channels, acquired the territorial rights to the state of Georgia in 2016. The vision was to run a territory which would have irregular high-production value TV tapings that would fund the rest of the tour. There will be an emphasis on entertaining over-the-top characters, but within the context of an athletic competition... attempting to fuse the best aspects of several philosophies of pro wrestling.
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SWAG TV #1 - Game session date August 4, 2017

The initial episode of SWAG TV! A couple of introductory matches and promos, and a double main event. Commentary team of veteran Joe Bruise and Pierre Clouseau (who is French, but not a police inspector, thank goodness).

Out of character comments go here, while the normal text is a show review.

Our first match shows a bit of what we're getting with SWAG. The first man in the ring is this huge man in a purple mask and bodysuit with a green chest. It's pretty clear that SWAG isn't going to be taking their job guys very seriously... this dude is running a Barney gimmick. Seriously. This works to one effect, the crowd can't wait to see someone kick this idiot's ass.

Because that's what the players want!

The first person to get an actual entrance is Cecil Foreman, who is pretty much a straight-up babyface wrestler out of Philadelphia. "Babyface" being fairly relative, as Foreman makes it pretty clear before the match that he's a professional fighter and doesn't appreciate somebody showing up to a fight dressed like a dinosaur. He does a bit of mic work before the match to get over that he's here to be the Georgia Heavyweight Champion and that he's not terribly fond of his opponent's life decisions before getting underway. Though his much larger pseudosaur opponent goes get in a counter and a nice slam, it's pretty one sided, and a crushing cross-whip spear ends the match at about the three minute mark.

We then run a pair of promos. We get a vignette from the airport showing that the Jäger Boys are a couple of crazy guys from Estonia who are moving to the US because they 'get to kick as much ass as we want and get paid for it', albeit in such a happy and jovial tone that they seem like faces. And then Cousteau heavily hypes up a backstage interview with his 'apprentice', Jeane Constance, whom he apparently trained. Constance seems to be implying that the Georgia Heavyweight Championship is his by default because no American can beat him. He then states that it's up to him to prove France's superiority in wrestling because Clouseau has gotten 'flabby', which causes Clouseau to hilariously turn on him when we cut back to ringside.

The next feature match involves a luchador named BATTLE FEVER. All caps. He is apparently Japanese born but Mexican-trained, and carries a distinct Sentai character gimmick, complete with calling out maneuvers and posing. His opponent is a big powerhouse named the Sentry, which thankfully seems to be a military reference and not a comic book character as he isn't dressed up crazy or anything. BATTLE FEVER has to use some smart tactics on the bigger stronger guy, who powers down some of FEVER's early attempts at complicated lucha moves. Good to see that there's still psychology behind the crazed gimmicks. FEVER tries to hit what is presumably his finish twice, some springboard move, but Sentry is too powerful and FEVER ends up outmaneuvering him into a nice pinning combination for the three count. Interesting how they established that physics doesn't take a vacation just because it's a job guy.

Or that you still need to roll under a guy's Weight Lift even if he's a jobber. One of the side effects of this being a tabletop game is that it really IS a competition to an extent.

The next set of promos include the Dark Shogun, who basically thinks he's Fu Manchu. The interviewer here looked like some college intern who is completely unaware of what pro wrestling is and was completely dumbfounded by the idea of a 'gimmick', which made the Shogun stand out better. Following that, we got the Pacific Empire, who are another set of foreign heels. There is an awful lot of foreign talent here, so either SWAG has contacts in Japan and Europe or some of these guys are working under fabricated credentials. Probably both.

Then we get a feature tag match involving the Fireborn against the Tolliver Twins. The Tollivers (Tim Tolliver and Jim Tolliver) are conniving heels using the lookalike switcharoo schtick, while the Fireborn consist of one massive dude and one very light cruiserweight using the powerhouse-flyer style mix. The Fireborn (Heatstroke and Inferno) look and sound like they just think fire is cool and they want to wear martial arts clothes because those are cool and they don't really care if any of it makes sense. The Tollivers are extreme pragmatists who wrestle in jeans, probably for no other reasons than to hide foriegn objects better. The faces start with control and keep it for a long time, beating up Tim and Jim for quite some time before Inferno misses a high risk moves and the Tollivers work him over for a long time as well. When the Fireborn start making a comeback, the Tollivers hit him in the knee with a chair for the DQ, but get run off before any serious damage can occur. They apparently took the match only to injure one of the Fireborn before the Georgia Tag Team Championship tournament could start, but that didn't quite pan out.

Also, we were short of time so the Tollivers player decided to end the match.

Then the main event, Ogre Nogami vs "Troll King" Corrin Bullock. Nogami's probably going to be one of the more controversial wrestlers in SWAG, because she's female.

One of our players wanted to play as Sakura Oogami from Danganronpa, and she probably wasn't going to be interested in trying the game otherwise as she's not comfortable playing male characters, so that's what happened... changing the name here for copyright.

Nogami is a massive, heavily muscled martial artist while Bullock is a wide-shouldered Texan with a face that looks like he took a shot to the face from a running lawnmower and an attitude that suggests said lawnmower shot happened sixty seconds ago. Both nicknames are in reference to the relative lack of attractiveness of each person, so somebody apparently thought it would make for an ironic match. It ended up making for a very good match, as this one went back and forth all over the place. Bullock controlled the majority of time while Nogami landed the more devastating shots. In the end, Bullock eked out the win via cheatery, and then continued to attack, ensuring that this one is going to be a rivalry.

A good time was had by all, so there will probably be more of these. The main event was between two players who aren't really wrestling fans, but the match was so competitive and dramatic that they both enjoyed it a great deal.
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SWAG TV #2 - Game session date April 20, 2018

I finally got my group to play again!

The second episode of SWAG TV! A couple of introductory matches and promos. Commentary team of veteran Joe Bruise and a former wrestler still named "The Kid".

Out of character comments go here, while the normal text is an in-universe show review by some internet wrestling reviewer.

We open with the debut of Sinbad Vavou. Turns out 'Vavou' is a Samoan name, and this guy is a tough guy from a Samoan family. He gives his opponent (named Dennis London) a chance to run, and the guy shows a complete and total lack of understanding about the history of Samoan wrestlers by refusing. Vavou levels him, and proceeds to dominate most of the match. Dennis manages some counters basically because Sinbad has zero respect for the man's ability to harm him, and succeeds only in making Vavou mad enough to pull out a foriegn object. The weapon slips out of Vavou's hand in what seems like a botch, but it turned out to just be a ploy to get the referee to turn around and investigate so Sinbad could haul off and kick the guy in the nuts as hard as he could. That's what it looks like when a guy wants to do something rather than needs to do something, kids. A 'Samoan Suplex' (actually an Aztec Suplex) and a brutal Shouten (announcers call it 'The End Of The Road') finishes. Sinbad celebrates in the way violent assholes do; he hits his finish on the guy again before informing him that he really should have taken his offer to run.

Backstage, we hear from the Fireborn (that's Heatstroke and Inferno, if you haven't grasped the theme) regarding last week's steel chair shenanagains from the Tolliver Twins. Commentator asks them twice how they feel about it, both times the Fireborn decide to tell everyone how honorable they are instead of answering the question. Jim Tolliver shows us how he feels about this by running in out of nowhere and whacking Inferno in the face with a chair! Heatstroke clobbers him, because one guy attacking a tag team is suicidally dumb.

Then a small luchadore we haven't seen yet comes in from behind Heatstroke and... and starts talking to Tolliver about how cheating and schemes don't work. Some random man about the size and proportions of King Kong kicks a bunch of equipment over, and dumps Tim Tolliver on the ground. It's not clear, but it sounded like the Tollivers were going to use a wolfpack-style ambush, and these guys somehow found out and stopped it. The luchadore says the big guy is Michael Guts, he's Toda La Gloria, and they're going to beat both of these other teams for the tag team titles when SWAG gets around to crowning those.

The players handwaved how Guts & Glory would have known what the Tollivers were up to for the purposes of introducing G&G and establishing bad blood between all three teams.

The ring announcer doesn't even finish his intro to the next match before his microphone cuts, and some dumpy-looking guy in baggy clothes walks down to the ring preaching a sermon about... your guess is as good as mine. Apparently he's a teacher/preacher and he has some great message but never indicated what it was. He says his name is Nicolas Proctor, he doesn't care about titles/glory/money/etc, he's here to improve society, and directly addresses his opponent (Tom Robbens), with some blather about how society lied to him about being special or whatever it is. This whole longwinded spiel lasts until Proctor walks up within reach of Robbens, and hits him in the face with the microphone before the bell. I'm not sure what killed more brain cells, the 'sermon' or the blunt trauma. Proctor makes a big show of 'helping' Tom until the opening bell rings, then 'helps' him into a slingshot back suplex and puts him to sleep with a swinging full nelson (apparently he calls this Illumination; at least that's what he says). He keeps swinging him like a lovestruck newlywed swinging their spouse on the dance floor long after the flow of blood to the brain is gone, and then lets go to send the poor guy flying. The only life lesson this could possibly teach someone is how medical deductables work. Proctor promises to teach everyone about life, and the crowd chants that he's crazy. They're not wrong.

And unfortunately, we cut here due to time. Probably just add matches to this TV taping next time we play.
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