[tabletop] [wrassling] so due to watching a bunch of retrospectives on 90s wrestling the last two days, my brain decided that "let's work on a one on one entertainment wrestling tabletop system" as a bed time thought experiment

one player and a dm, focusing on navigating both locker room politics and putting on good shows, the "combat" being more a series of skill checks alongside the "opponent" to work the crowd and reach the pre planned outcome

the goal being "become a maincard talent"

the sheet would be six stats that will seem very familiar to d&d folks

Consider: every class is just a different flavor of bard, (heel, hero, gimmicky AF trope, etc.) and the combat rules are all for SOCIAL combat, because that's where the real conflict comes from

being Athletics, Skill, Toughness, Cunning, Intuition and Charisma

you start at rank 1 in each skill with some points to spend upping them at creation. each rank is a die (either a d6 or d10, not sure which yet) you can roll in checks

there are two types of checks: contested and cooperative

the first is just your dice roll v your opponent. ironically this will almost never be on the mat and instead be all backroom stuff

the second is mat stuff where you and your opponent try to reach a number goal in a certain number of turns to decide how the match appeals to the crowd

Infychu : yeah exactly its performance on the mat but the politics are BRUTAL

your actions can give you or you opponents bonuses on rolls, for example using your cunning to put the other guy "over" so he gets bonuses on charisma checks while kicking your ass

being a jobber isn't glorious but it can earn you allies later if you help a guy get some popularity

now tbf irl unless your fucking hulk hogan you're not gonna usually have that much creative control but this is a bit more fun for rp than just doing jobs youre assigned

coming back to this, honestly the cooperative roll goal here I feel you could adapt to a lot of settings and scenarios in rp where you want more crunch than just coop story telling but not to fight to bend an existing system to work for it

it's pretty similar to a system PikaBot used in Valor Trigger for objective defense maps