World Warrior Epic

GenocideHeart

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#1
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.
 

Spectral

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#2
I think your ideas are stupid and that you're clearly high on peanuts.
 

GenocideHeart

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#3
Spectral said:
I think your ideas are stupid and that you're clearly high on peanuts.
Your opinion is null and void on the grounds of you being made of suck. :p

EDIT: Also, who are you again? I think I've seen you around a few other topics. Newbie?
 

Python453

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#4
What was the end goal of the campaign? To slaughter all of your opponents and become the World Warrior Epic Champion?

... Which actually sounds pretty awesome now that I think about it.
 

GenocideHeart

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#5
Python453 said:
What was the end goal of the campaign? To slaughter all of your opponents and become the World Warrior Epic Champion?

... Which actually sounds pretty awesome now that I think about it.
Pretty much, yes.
 

Lord Raine

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#6
I actually had a similar idea once, though mine was about music and musicians. You know, demons fight by rocking the fuck out, Bards are way OP and everybody has Bard powers because you're using music to mimic the Sonds of Creation and Destruction, everything is a literal battle of the bands (OF WARRIORS), ect.

This is basically what I had thought of, only take away the rock and roll and replace it with kayfabe.

And I'm totally, totally cool with that.
 

GenocideHeart

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#7
Lord Raine said:
I actually had a similar idea once, though mine was about music and musicians. You know, demons fight by rocking the fuck out, Bards are way OP and everybody has Bard powers because you're using music to mimic the Sonds of Creation and Destruction, everything is a literal battle of the bands (OF WARRIORS), ect.

This is basically what I had thought of, only take away the rock and roll and replace it with kayfabe.

And I'm totally, totally cool with that.
So basically you had Brutal Legend in mind? :snigger:
 

Lord Raine

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#8
GenocideHeart said:
Lord Raine said:
I actually had a similar idea once, though mine was about music and musicians. You know, demons fight by rocking the fuck out, Bards are way OP and everybody has Bard powers because you're using music to mimic the Sonds of Creation and Destruction, everything is a literal battle of the bands (OF WARRIORS), ect.

This is basically what I had thought of, only take away the rock and roll and replace it with kayfabe.

And I'm totally, totally cool with that.
So basically you had Brutal Legend in mind? :snigger:
Yes. Brutal Legend was both hilarious and awesome. The entire time I was playing it, I was laughing, but between laughing (and crying, because Jesus Christ did Shit Get Real), I was thinking "I would play the shit out of this as a TRPG campaign."

I actually thought about combining this with the idea that came up in passing in my D&D thread, about how Heaven is a blasted ruin and the forces of Evil have already won, in that, well. There is no supernatural good. So the "heroes" by definition have to be Ridiculous Badass Normals and Heroic Half Fiends who are hell-bent on kicking evil's ass, death of the Light be damned.

So basically Heaven dies, but fuck that, the mortals are going to use METAL to win.
 

GenocideHeart

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#9
If I were to run this campaign again today, I'd probably add a few of the new age wrestlers to the NPC lineup.

Sheamus, of course. I mean, LOOK at him. Sheamus is made to be D&D'd.

Finlay and Hornswoggle for much the same reasons.

The Boogeyman was a crap wrestler, but the gimmick works for a fantasy setting.

The Million Dollar Man could actually work as the filthy rich guy who has shady dealings.

I'd also consider 'The Alpha Male' Monty Brown, Abyss, The Great Muta and Sin Cara. Hell, make that I'd consider damn near EVERY Mexican luchador enmascarado and most Japanese wrestlers with monster gimmicks. Especially Gronda (who for all that he sucked at wrestling, looked absolutely awesome), Dark Ozz, Vampiro, La Parka, CibernÚtico, ?ltimo Drag¾n, Jushin Raiga, Tiger Mask... The list goes on.
 
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