I was talking to ADD Kyuubi on AIM, and I mentioned this old campaign I participated in - as a player, not as a DM. I have fond memories of it, so I thought, why the hell not, let's share.
Basically, the campaign took wrestling make-believe, or kayfabe, and ran with it. So in the campaign, which took place in the remote kingdom of Rastlon, ALL gimmicks were true.
So we had The Undertaker, a powerful demilich who buried mortals alive and reaped their souls, could throw lightning from his hands, and was essentially unkillable.
We had Kane, a demon lord who could summon hellfire and could transport his enemies inside a caged area of Hell where they'd fight to the death with him for the chance to be freed and escape with their lives.
We had Andre the Giant, who was a literal giant, and one of, if not the strongest of his kind.
We had The Ultimate Warrior, which was the nickname that a nameless warrior from another plane was called - the quintessential, nearly unbeatable master of all kinds of war art.
We had Hogan the Hulk, who, upon being pushed too far, would suddenly grow in size and become a raging, barely human, unstoppable engine of destruction made of rippling muscles that felt no pain.
We had The Rock, a golem who'd achieved independence from his masters - and inherited a large dose of arrogance from them as well.
We had the Iron Sheik, an elemental creature made entirely of its namesake material who ruled his land with an iron fist, literally.
And of course, we had the less overpowered, but more zany characters, like the wandering bard known only as the Honky Tonk Man; the insane serial killer Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake, who'd kill his victims and then shave them; the monstrous ogre warlord Vader; and of course, the high profile gigolo Rick Rude, who was the bane of all married men and the object of all women's dreams. And many, many others.
...yeah, it was that kind of campaign.
I will admit, it was fun. So I thought I'd share the basic setting of the idea, since it's worth trying at least once even for those who dislike wrestling. A lot of past and present wrestlers lend themselves surprisingly well to RPGification... give it a try.
Let me know what you think.
Basically, the campaign took wrestling make-believe, or kayfabe, and ran with it. So in the campaign, which took place in the remote kingdom of Rastlon, ALL gimmicks were true.
So we had The Undertaker, a powerful demilich who buried mortals alive and reaped their souls, could throw lightning from his hands, and was essentially unkillable.
We had Kane, a demon lord who could summon hellfire and could transport his enemies inside a caged area of Hell where they'd fight to the death with him for the chance to be freed and escape with their lives.
We had Andre the Giant, who was a literal giant, and one of, if not the strongest of his kind.
We had The Ultimate Warrior, which was the nickname that a nameless warrior from another plane was called - the quintessential, nearly unbeatable master of all kinds of war art.
We had Hogan the Hulk, who, upon being pushed too far, would suddenly grow in size and become a raging, barely human, unstoppable engine of destruction made of rippling muscles that felt no pain.
We had The Rock, a golem who'd achieved independence from his masters - and inherited a large dose of arrogance from them as well.
We had the Iron Sheik, an elemental creature made entirely of its namesake material who ruled his land with an iron fist, literally.
And of course, we had the less overpowered, but more zany characters, like the wandering bard known only as the Honky Tonk Man; the insane serial killer Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake, who'd kill his victims and then shave them; the monstrous ogre warlord Vader; and of course, the high profile gigolo Rick Rude, who was the bane of all married men and the object of all women's dreams. And many, many others.
...yeah, it was that kind of campaign.
I will admit, it was fun. So I thought I'd share the basic setting of the idea, since it's worth trying at least once even for those who dislike wrestling. A lot of past and present wrestlers lend themselves surprisingly well to RPGification... give it a try.
Let me know what you think.