There was approval from the people about the Vietnam War/Shadowrun [1st] session "Jungle Hike" in general as I explained in the corresponding thread. And now I have a question of how to resolve the following idea for a probable next session in a month:
One of the characters has a background as a professional wrestler (Medusa: very long cyberhair, cyberlegs and dermal armour) and still is able to work for a company which features enhanced talent to entertain the troops in Vietnam just like the WWE did in Afghanistan. So my decision as GM is to feature a wrestling match with this character. To avoid the other two characters having nothing to do during that time I have planned to let them take the role of the two colour commentators during the wrestling match. As those two players are absolutely not familiar with wrestling and it´s terms I have come up with the idea of writing approximately two A4 pages (maybe more) of dialogue for the two commentators to tell the audience, and ultimately for everyone at the gaming table, what is really going on in the ring. Of course there will be many instances of funny comments and insults as one of the commentator would be pro-Face and the other one pro-Heel.
Would this be a good idea to resolve it in such a way? Or is it unfulfilling for a RPG player to read a text and not come up with his own ideas? Commentating a wrestling match in an entertaining way is a task which not even former wrestlers can do very well so, if I would just assume they could somehow manage it I might set them up for failure and it will sink the whole session and the mood at the table.
One of the characters has a background as a professional wrestler (Medusa: very long cyberhair, cyberlegs and dermal armour) and still is able to work for a company which features enhanced talent to entertain the troops in Vietnam just like the WWE did in Afghanistan. So my decision as GM is to feature a wrestling match with this character. To avoid the other two characters having nothing to do during that time I have planned to let them take the role of the two colour commentators during the wrestling match. As those two players are absolutely not familiar with wrestling and it´s terms I have come up with the idea of writing approximately two A4 pages (maybe more) of dialogue for the two commentators to tell the audience, and ultimately for everyone at the gaming table, what is really going on in the ring. Of course there will be many instances of funny comments and insults as one of the commentator would be pro-Face and the other one pro-Heel.
Would this be a good idea to resolve it in such a way? Or is it unfulfilling for a RPG player to read a text and not come up with his own ideas? Commentating a wrestling match in an entertaining way is a task which not even former wrestlers can do very well so, if I would just assume they could somehow manage it I might set them up for failure and it will sink the whole session and the mood at the table.