Injuries

["Dr Death" Ric Anderson]

I've tried several methods to handle injuries and haven't  been happy with any of them. How do you handle injuries in your fed?

[throwingtoasters]

If someone gets injured, they are out. Only in super rare cases will I book someone who is injured. They’d have to have a strong reason to do so. Also if a tag team partner gets injured, I take out the whole tag team for the duration. When the injured wrestler can return, you’d better believe they go right after the person who injured them.

[Travis605]

Nov 27, 2020 1:32:34 GMT -5 "Dr Death" Ric Anderson said:

I've tried several methods to handle injuries and haven't  been happy with any of them. How do you handle injuries in your fed?

I use the feud table for any match ending in doubles.

I’ll roll 1 Dice. If the roll is 1-5, then I go by injuries. If I roll a 6, then the wrestler is out of action for x amount of cards.

I love playing with injuries. It makes a big difference on occassion. I remember a Thesz vs Rogers match where Rogers was injured (Minor injury).. Since he and Thesz have the same agility and power, that minor injury bumped his agility from -2 to -1, which may not seem a lot, but it makes a difference.

[jasonjaconetti]

Nov 27, 2020 1:32:34 GMT -5 "Dr Death" Ric Anderson said:

I've tried several methods to handle injuries and haven't  been happy with any of them. How do you handle injuries in your fed?

Do you mean how do we book injury angles or how do we book around injuries that occur, bc those are (at least to me) different.

You can book and injury or hospitalization angle into a feud to heighten thing and turn it into a long program. If it happens during a match, you could always have the match stop via ref stoppage and us that as a pivot point. For example: If Terry Gordy is wrestling Lanny Poffo and Lanny gets hurt, then you can have Savage race to the ring to protect his brother. The injury to Lanny keeps him out, but you then pivot the feud right there into a possible main event angle. But you might say, but Savage is a heel and Gordy is a heel, and my answer is so what? Look at Ronnie Garvin and Jimmy Garvin angle with The Midnight Express (see YouTube clip) after the fireball. Yes, that was a work. Yes, it was a planned "injury" angle. BUT it worked really well.









Here is how Jim Cornette talks about the angle. CAUTION! Jim Cornette uses a lot CURSE WORDS. No one can't say you are not warned!

[Gunslinger]

I used to use the feud table religiously but now 95% of my injuries are for storyline purposes or to put someone on the shelf for a while.

[Dustin]

I'll use the feud table as well as take the liberty of creating an injury via story line. If I don't like the feud chart result and their not in a major feud, I may do my own thing.

[kaeden31]

I was actually about to post a similar thread. My question, related to this one, is when the feud table (or other means) indicates a wrestler is out for "x" cards, do we equate this to months in game-time? I feel like LoW was written with the assumption that Feds would have one card a month, so a wrestler being out for "x" cards meant "x" months of action. But if your Fed has weekly shows, "x" cards could be only a few weeks. And if those cards are "TV tapings" the wrestler might not be scheduled every week anywho.

I think I use months, as in "monthly main cards" for "cards". How about you?

As for booking, I very rarely book an injured wrestler, unless its a Babyface with a Minor Injury he can heroically battle back from.

[Bazzy]

Rules and rules in my opinion . I go 100% by the handbook , NO matter how annoying that injury might be/mean

[Gunslinger]

Nov 27, 2020 13:27:27 GMT -5 kaeden31 said:

I was actually about to post a similar thread. My question, related to this one, is when the feud table (or other means) indicates a wrestler is out for "x" cards, do we equate this to months in game-time? I feel like LoW was written with the assumption that Feds would have one card a month, so a wrestler being out for "x" cards meant "x" months of action. But if your Fed has weekly shows, "x" cards could be only a few weeks. And if those cards are "TV tapings" the wrestler might not be scheduled every week anywho.

I think I use months, as in "monthly main cards" for "cards". How about you?

As for booking, I very rarely book an injured wrestler, unless its a Babyface with a Minor Injury he can heroically battle back from.

I do one card a week so the injury is for one week.

[DK II]

I let injuries happen based on the Feud table (only really use it in matches between feuding entities) or any other charts or match types that come up with injuries. I then use the Injury Chart for the injured individuals for the # of cards the injury was sustained. It works and makes for some interesting results.

Back in the early days before the injury chart, I followed the rules where injured = out of action and too many injuries at one time made for cards with not a whole lot of matches on them. The injury chart was a great upgrade to the original injury rule.