Taking "liberties" with storylines

[hitman]

Just want to be able to sleep guilt-free this evening, so I have to ask...does anybody else not necessarily rely on the dice to help move a storyline? Or am I the only one who writes things in to help move a story along? Sometimes, the dice just don't cooperate, especially with feuds & angles. Don't get me wrong, I would never disregard a dice result during a match, but sometimes, in order to keep the story / angle flowing, I'll "create" an end of match attack without ever using the feud table, if it seems to fit in with the story / angle I'm working on. Somebody, please tell me I'm not ruining the time / space continuum...

[Gunslinger]

If you're ruining the space/time continuum, so am I. I only use the feud table if the whim strikes me. Otherwise, I'll come up with a post-match attack that fits the wrestlers I'm using.

I'm also not above using the end result of one of the chart situations but changing what happened to suit the match, like having Steve Williams hit the backdrop driver on the floor and getting his opponent counted out rather than the piledriver on the chart.

[luke929]

So...now we know what is responsible for the economic downturn...

...honor the dice!!!!

;D

[wildfire]

I definately change what happens on things like the Out of Ring chart to make more sense for the character and my angle... not every wrestler uses a piledriver! In my head, the charts just tell me the next die roll (i.e whose on offense), the description is whatever the two wrestlers do in the magic TV in my head

I consider that to be one of the fun bits of writing out the results actually.. coming up with a plausible write-up when the dice don't co-operate with what you wanted to happen.

[executioner]

I do not always follow the dice either. While I try to stay consistent with what happens due to the dice, I am not above altering an ending of a match (i.e. for a big match that turns out to be a dud--might say they got DDQ due to a pre-match brawl) or using some evil heel stip (i.e. the match was non-title or whatnot).

[jasonjaconetti]

I do this especially on DQs. In this day and age someone is DQed for slamming his opponent on the ground or into the guardrail? I love to work in interference here or an all out attack, without the feud table. It is easier to work up feuds and stories this way, especially if certain guys in a feud are dominating the bouts.

[zanysteve]

My legends fed isnt storyline based so sometimes I ignore a feud table roll. For example recently I had Pepper Gomez lose by DQ on deathjump to Danny Hodge with the match ending on a double.Gomez & Hodge are faces in that tour so it made no sense to have Gomez attack Hodge or vice versa..
Ive always wondered if there should be a feud table based on the wrestler(s) heel/face alignment.

[mwjergs]

As far as matches go, of course I honor the dice.

But as for the out of ring action and stories, not so much.

[TTX]

I tweak things here and there in two ways
Though I roll the choice moves, I usually still use the move on the card (As it'sunlikely Gotch or Londos or Hack or the like would break out some moves that wouldn't be used for a long while)
I sometimes tweak out of the rnig because honestly, it's too easy for the action to get out there to the point it feels a bit unrealistic depending on who it is (Sheik, Sabu, Sandman, Brody, sure........Gotch, Rocca, Mascaras maybe not so much) so I sometimes simply use out of the ring as the dramatic defensive reversals you see sometimes even nowadays where a guy is getting hit by the big moves but somehow makes his comeback anyways.

(My classic example is one where Billy Red Lyons wrestled Ox Baker. Baker when for a suplex, Lyons rolled lv, rolled out of the ring, and then took over and hit his sleeper to win. Instead of doing that, I decided that when Baker went for the suplex, Lyons flipped out of it and hooked on the sleeper, more realistic to me instead of another roll out, reversal, hit finisher to win which has happened way too often for me)

[tman34]

I have done this alot.Too many times a dq results in a body slam on the concrete floor so I make up what takes place like hits with a chair or ring bell or the mic , a elerldy fans cane or even a gaurd rail to the head works nice I try to fit the action the the wrestler who is doing it.