On a long drive home today, it hit me that Blades in the Dark may be a great system to explore the onstage/offstage…

On a long drive home today, it hit me that Blades in the Dark may be a great system to explore the onstage/offstage…

On a long drive home today, it hit me that Blades in the Dark may be a great system to explore the onstage/offstage group dynamics of professional wrestling. In the day, you’d have several stables of wrestlers vying popularity and success not just in the ring, but also within the ranks backstage. Heat in wrestling exists as your narrative currency (popularity with the fans) and in real life beefs between performers (personal insults, breaking traditions, etc etc). In other words, the games I imagined were less about describing suplexes and chair shots and more about describing the journeys wrestlers go through from their first match to retirement.