Well I’ve had a weekend of much role-playing for a change! Not one, not two but three games. And we even finished two of them.

PILEDRIVERS AND POWERBOMBS
We got stuck into some P&P Friday night. This was the first time I’d played using all the modifications from the Chokeslam of Darkness edition. As most of the group (everyone but me) had little to no interest in pro-wrestling we decided to mix things up and go with a sci-fi setting…

The year was 1969 and after landing on the moon, the astronauts found it inhabited by fighting aliens from all over the galaxy. NASA brought them back to earth and Deek Weasel, the head of NASA did the only sensible thing – started a wrestling promotion featuring extra terrestrials vs NASA’s finest.

Matt played Tentalclaw, an inhabitant of the moon packing four tentacles as well as a mighty claw-tentacle. His many appendages made him an expert in hardcore matches. Tentalclaw’s home and family had been crushed by the lunar lander. As a result Tentalclaw was feuding with Jason and the Astronauts – golden haired US space explorer and his jump-suited monkeys.

Yours truly played ‘Marvellous’ Marvin Meteor, a rock-skinned alien originally from the mud planet of Thargon. His finisher was the Meteor Shower-Bomb. Marvin was feuding with Bobby Bot, NASA’s shiny tin-can boy who’d captured Marvin on the moon.

Dan played Croc Borgnine a reptilian swamp hulk from New Orleans. He entered to ‘Rockin all over the World’. Croc was feuding with than none other than Neil Armstrong. The 24hr paparazzi attention Armstrong received had (for reasons still unknown) triggered the mutation of Borgnine. Armstrong was a feared opponent with his Moon Stomp finisher “That’s one small stomp for a man…”

Finally, Gemma played Fred from Jupiter – the gas giant gerbil. A three foot furry talking critter who was feuding with Risler the astro rat. The fiendish astro rats had stolen the Jupiter Gerbils’ space seed stores.

Tentalclaw and Marvin were reviled by the human fans. Fred proved a popular fellow and Croc eventually won the crowd over. We cheated a little bit to finish the game in one sitting as the grudge point threshold was not fully reached. Nevertheless we had some satisfying final fights – taking place on various stages of a Saturn V rocket as it blasted off to the moon! Croc defeated Armstrong and parachuted to victory. Tentalclaw crushed the monkeys and decapitated Jason. Poor Fred was knocked off the rocket by Risler’s tail clothesline. The game ended, as it had begun, on the moon where Marvin destroyed Bobby Bot with a one sixth gravity Meteor Shower-Bomb, scattering the robot’s components to the lunar wind.

And that, my friends is how you play P&P when the group cares not a jot for the WWE! All in all we had a great session and packed a whole lot of fun into three hours. Going from nothing to endgame was pretty good and more importantly there was lots of laughter along the way.

I’m pleased with the alterations I’ve made and feel P&P: CoD will now be a worthy brother to Contenders.

Incidentally, that’s the second time Neil Armstrong has popped up in one of my games that has nothing to do with space travel…

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JoE
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