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my opinion on e-feds

Owen Hart RIPPosted on 07/16/04 at 02:31:25

My opinion on e-feds
Let me be the first one to say that I don't like them but I don't hate them either. I do like e-feds where you use fantasy characters, but not the ones where you use real wrestlers. It's not the fact they use real wrestlers that annoys me. It's the fact that half of the roleplaying is unoriginal. Any damn fool can rip off The Rock or Y2J. That's not good roleplaying. Good roleplaying is coming up with your own catchphrases, and insults and not relying on unoriginal ones like "If You Smell What the Rock is cooking...", and the various ones used by Ric Flair, etc.) It takes a very special roleplayer to come up with their own catchphrases. I ran a couple of e-feds a few years back (one used fantasy and the other real) I found the fantasy characters were more original, as were the catchphrases (although once in a while you will get some bozo who wanted their fantasy wrestler to be like Stone Cold, and use all his catchphrases)

Unless it's a simmed (non-booked) fed where roleplaying does not mean much anyway!
91Posted on 07/16/04 at 02:56:24

In e-feds, unless someone portrays a dark, brooding character (esque Undertaker, Gangrel or Crow-Sting), a complete psychopath or some wacky gimmick, chances are their characters are going to be extensions of themselves, but yeah, you do often see people not necessarily ripping off catchphrases but basically stealing all the manerisms and personality traits of a big wrestler (usually The Rock or Stone Cold, or a mix of the two). That's why when I did e-fedding, I didn't even use a catchphrase and basically wrote my RP's to be inane "humourous" sh1t, since there could be no doubt that my character was original and I was looking at getting kudos points for detail and witticisms.
xsouporheroxPosted on 07/16/04 at 07:51:13

Catchphrases are a crutch in e-fedding and a sign that you can't get your point over without resorting to tried and true cliches.

Or something.