u/kingpin000

After years of work, my wrestling TTRPG is finished and free forever.

CWC is not a combat simulator — it's a television drama engine. You don't play to find out who the strongest fighter is; you play to create audience-reactive wrestling TV. The core ideas:

• The crowd is a player. A living, finite Audience Pool that wrestlers harvest Heat from through big moments. In a solo promo, the crowd IS your opponent.
• No initiative, no hit points. Control shifts through a Spotlight system; wrestlers don't die, they get Buried or get Over. Push someone's emotional Stress too far and a Heel or Face Turn happens to them, just like on TV.
• Losing creates stories. Momentum, Card rank, and Feud dice link every result to the next storyline.
• A full league layer. Divisions, championships, weekly shows, PLEs — it runs like a TV season, not a dungeon crawl.

Includes 13 match types, 6 promo types, six-stage character creation, 12 ready-to-play wrestlers, and a premade promotion with a pilot show. You'll need the Cortex Prime Game Handbook for core resolution.

Full transparency: system design and rules text are mine; layout, production, and artwork were AI-assisted after years of failing to find collaborators — details and my reasoning are on the itch page. If that's a dealbreaker, I understand.

https://kingpin000.itch.io/cortex-wrestling-corporation-cwc

If you run it — even one match — tell me about your Near Falls. Feedback is the whole reason I published this.

Hi there,

I recently finished the script for my Cortex wrestling hack. The game treats the wrestling shows like TV dramas/soap operas. The outcome of matches and promos are uncertain. The wrestlers are constanly under pressure to build momentum and rise in the match card, but they can also fall again.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yazJ8dbudGLnTQp71fnThJCegeCzxF40FayKEaddNew/edit?usp=sharing

I would love to get some feedback. It's my personal heartbreaker, so you may break my heart when you don't like it.