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Before you read this guide you should go over the beginner's guide, as it covers some things from there in more detail. There will be no examples as you are at the point where you can draw your own examples. |
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| Now of course originality is one of the biggest and most over rated weapons in e-wrestling. If someone can make up a distinct persona like none others he can dominate. Gimmicks can easily be changed. Look at Jean Paul Levesque, he went from Hunter Hearst Helmsley to Triple H. Some guys "got it like that" other just don't. Originality comes from inside. A lot of e-wrestlers are well thought out. Others are a complete rip off. If you want a unique character look at yourself. After all we are all unique. Make your wrestler have a similar personality to you, make him have a similar wrestling style to you, basically make him you. A friend of mine who wrestles under the name Seether started off e-wrestling in an e-fed using the Stone Cold Steve Austin gimmick. He took my advice. He became crippled from the waste down and changed his character to the victim character. I remember his quote "Pain is my friend, now let me introduce him to you", than there were all those times he would yell "I am the victim here not you or anyone else." This was one of those FWLnet top e-feds, back when that was a big thing. Soon enough he became world champion. You can use as many fancy words as you want gimmick is everything, if you have an interesting gimmick, chances are I'll read about it through your role playing. | ||||||||||||
| Applying your gimmick or character in your role-plays is commonly over looked. Most people won't even see you as a bad role-player for that. That's why I'm the President and they're not. Good role-playing involves integrating the type of person you are into the role playing. These is no chance in hell The Rock would come out and dance a ballet in front of millions of people, I seriously doubt that. Being the "Bad Ass" in an e-fed is the hardest part. In role playing you must be able to keep the same level of applying your gimmick all the time. That's why we don't really have any good role-players that pick to be the Bad Ass. These guys may start off mean but than later in the role-play they'll be turning soft. Doesn't make much sense does it? Well for the last few years most of you have been applauding it. You must learn to make the gimmick a part of your wrestler, since that is basically what e-wrestling is all about, don't go speaking from yourself (unless that is your gimmick). Never under rate those who know how to apply gimmick in role-playing | ||||||||||||
| Once you've realized you've made the dumbest gimmick ever and you want to change it, you just can't suddenly change from the bringer of darkness to the protector of light, it's just dumb. Changing gimmick occurs in small steps. Well there is always the big one step. You could always quit and come back as a new e-wrestler. Many wil argue Undertaker jumped from being the Lord of Darkness to the "American Badass" way too fast. I disagree, he was quickly removing parts of his attire, and added a biker outfit to his backstage repertoire. Changing a gimmick can take a while. Well it can take a short time but you'll be looked upon as a jobber, well okay you won't but you'll look like one. So either when you first join an e-fed pick a good gimmick or have to go through the a long process of gradual change in moves, dress, dialogue, and actions. | ||||||||||||
| What is a Mickey Mouse role-player? Well I can clearly say most of you are it. If you're wondering it's Mickey Mouse means easy, it comes from my advanced math teacher who calls all equations Mickey Mouse problems. There are certain ways you can maneuver around and role-play with great ease. One if called advantage by the case. This is to say you hold past things against them. Think about it what can you really say back to them. If you were to say something like "remember I beat you last week and I'll do it again", what will he say back? Well to reply and apply this bit to him would make you look like an idiot. I mean what would you say "yes you beat me last week but I'll beat you this week." Two people saying they'll beat each other up and one person can back up a reason why they can beat you, guess who's going to get the higher rating in this match. Another world famous one is the analogue bases. This is when you compare someone to an in-animate object. Say I compared Jarred Irons to a lamp. And I say "Jarred Irons is like a lamp, when he's on he's bright and alive, when he's off no one seems to give a damn." No one can say anything back to guys like this. Well you can put your own little bit of analogue back to them, but than you look like an idiot. Keep in mind, don't over use these, this is Mickey Mouse style and may only be used say once a month | ||||||||||||
| A lot of people ask me, Paul what do you find funny. I say I find unexpected things funny. Of course they would be baffled and would change the subject. Originality comes into play once again. It's no point in stealing the latest joke commercial (although old ones can be quite funny) and throwing them at me. Once I laugh at a joke once I just don't laugh at it again. Hence the reason why we only rent comedy movies once. This is why ECWF Hall-of-Famer Mike Carmen as Reckless Youth stopped being funny once he continued to make fun of Undertaker's name but changing it to Blundertaker. Some people are constantly funny. Some aren't. A lot of people will say I'm funny. I say no I'm not, I just ask myself, what would Jim Carrey do. Of course they naturally laugh at me, but it's true. Take a big time comedy star that is most similar to your e-wrestler and ask yourself, what would Jim Carrey do(naturally fill in the name of the comedy stay where I put Jimy Carrey)? This is the foul attempt for the guys who just aren't funny or charming (charm is very important, if you're in a room, ask yourself, what can you do to get a woman/man to laugh, this is probably the best way to see if you have it). Having comedy isn't everything, but it helps greatly. | ||||||||||||
| 95% of e-wrestlers are rip-offs. It's true just look at gimmicks and they're always inspired by some one else. The biggest non-rip-off I've seen at ECWF was Melanie Healy, your sluttish girl who just runs around after the guys. But once again we ask, who do you rip-off. The most commonly ripped off people are the big shots at WWF/WCW/ECW. No one ever rips off D'lo or Brookly Brawler, why, well they're on the bottom of the roster for a reason. Just once I'd like to see someone rip off the Senator from Bullworth. Yes the Senator from Bullworth. He was a rapping Senator, who really couldn't rap, and really couldn't govern. Or how about the guys from Dumb and Dumber. I mean these two guys would be a riot. Think of the tag team they would make. D and D. You could go on with these guys for hours. The thing is, when ripping off something, think it through again, who is the least common guy I'm going to rip off. | ||||||||||||
| Story lines are always fun. Your e-wrestler has an adventure from it. Here's the thing, you must go back to the whole action part of the beginner's guide. You must travel around and actually do things. In this case it's far from a complete dialogue. It's actually a lot less dialogue. From this you should meet people. Most President's will let you make up people. For example if you were to talk to a crew member or some one in the park, it would be let go. Now I'm not saying go and use other people's wrestler, for crimidy sakes don't do that. Most story lines are funny, this is usually why people like to write them. I recall the voyage of the Unstables to a Dairy Queen Restaurant. It was filled with puns and ended with the Unstables leaving. Not much of a story line right? Wrong. This story line would continue to another role play. Next the Unstables went to a McDonalds, declaring it was so close to their Denny's but not close enough. This went on for another three weeks. Get it, story lines can expand your role-playing ability and motivation more and more. | ||||||||||||
| This is the war in e-wrestling President's have been against since day one. President's don't like reading things like "you have no dick" or "you're always sucking someones dick", what we like to see is "you don't got the balls". Begin racist is just as bad. I'm going to insult Faaroq, hey how about I call him a black nigger and laugh out loud, well see here's the thing, the word nigger came from the country of Niger (Ny Gere). English people couldn't pronouce it so just called it nigger, and everyone in Africa niggers. That's factual, so by saying that, of course I'm not being racist (you don't know how many people would question that). If I went into a racist battle usually it's a non-white guy like Rikishi saying "it's all about the Great White Hope." Most people will accept this, as it's still not accepted in society (since there are so many support groups). It's not racist, it's called a declaration, and that is okay. It's the same thing as me saying "Today it seems no one gives a damn about the whites, it's all about the Eyes on the Prize of the Black Comunity." Finally the most hateful of them all, CUSSING, how about we give a round of aplause to ECW who decided to give the children of America a cussful day every week. Well see we see it all the time, and we're exposed so much to it in society, so does this mean you should make your e-fed a black eye by putting it on their role-play board. By saying words such as b***h and f**k you're neither cool or a top star, it's called immaturity. Let's remember it's a game for all ages. | ||||||||||||
| I always like to touch up on this, becuase no one knows how to walk the walk. Guys like Ric Flair, Jim Duggin, Hulk Hogan, and Arn Anderson can walk the walk. We can all agree on one thing they are all old. So does being old have anything to do with walking the walk. Well Jeff Jarrett can walk the walk too. WCW and WWF offer us what is known as the finished product. These guys basically will never improve unless they leave that federation for some time. Everyone has this element inside that is leaping out. For that reason everyone has a different word for it. Bret Hart called it pride, Jeff Jarrett called it stroke, Kevin Nash called it power, and The Rock called it poontang pie. You've got to have it like that. You can't be one of those guys who either rips off another person or just says I will beat you up, split into three or four lines. As I said quality over quantity but quality quantity over all. If you can't give those 30 minute openers than you can't do e-wrestling. Try public speakig, I know that's always helped me. Talk about a controversial issue too. Most people's moisture glands will tighten up there forth having a person finding it hard to read. When I go to a speak off I'll be talking about unsolicited sex, wrestling, and AIDS. People are always asking me how can I go up there and say all that stuff with out getting nervous, my replay, I've got it like that. Than there is the mental speaker, He's the guy who can speak it out in his head but never infront of an audience. Both of these are good role-players. You as a person must become one of these people who don't become nervous who say things and stand by them. | ||||||||||||
| You'd think with the new preview function on role-play boards these days people would actually check what they are doing. But most of them don't. This is where you can expose people. If I call Paul Wight a midget, than he could easily leap on me and say "I'm a 7"2' giant, you want to call me a midget and you'll find out in the ring." Most people don't read bios or don't have access to them. Which is why I ask you to read the ones we have, that way you don't make these flops. If I say you're just some pretty boy, well this could be a gangster, he could easily jump on me and say "I'm from the hood fool and I"ll knock you up." This is one of the few things you can do all the time. I mean doesn't a person get mad when the same mistake is over exposed. And the thing is it's not looked upon as a bad thing. Pounce on those who make errors and from here you reach a new state of genius. | ||||||||||||
| Here's an easy consept. You make fun of a guy by calling him the opposite of what he is. I'm contradicting what I just said in the error clause. But there are ways you can mock people by opposites. Usually it will depend on character. I remember a guy by the name of the Unknown Jobber. His gimmick was that he was a bum off the streets who was paid to lose. How was this used to mocking by opposite? He had The Unknown Jobber say, "I'll beat the crap out of you like the rest of my victims." This is funny because well he had no other victims. There is no person who is sane who would reply to this and actually say that because well, it sounds lame. So remember it's not the error clause. You're mocking people by your and their gimmick. Where as with the expose clause you're making fun of the screw ups they made. | ||||||||||||
| Well that's all for now, I have about another million concepts, but I'd like you all to learn these ones first, expect the rest to be in an "Advanced Version" of the role-play guide. Until than, don't kill yourself, and don't chew on tree gum. |
