(03-12-2018, 06:40 AM)Robbie Bourbon Said: I think it's fine so long as the player understands they are incorporating their favorite wrestler/persona into the XWF, and that strange things can happen to them, and that the XWF isn't designed to change automatically because someone decided to play Vince McMahon and that IRL such-and-such would actually happen. If the player gets upset that 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin gets put through a table because IRL Stone Cold just shows up and gives people stunners, or unhappy that John Cena loses match after match even though IRL he doesn't necessarily, there could be a problem.

This is a really salient point too. I've always found incorporating real life characters in to be tough on a number of levels. I mean, we're talking real life bankable stars who may end up jobbing to people's CAW's and that could be hard to swallow.

If you're willing to think outside the box enough though there could be workarounds. I once played a character in another fed who was a crazy person but was convinced he was Blackjack Mulligan right down to his music, promos, thinking he was still wrestling in the Deep South Territories in the 70's, not understanding modern technology, and thought his psychiatrist was Bobby Heenan. He was, for all intents and purposes, Blackjack...but not.