GVW Available Now

GVW : The Roleplaying Game is now available in print and pdf on the Gallant Knight Games site. You can read my review of the Mork Borg-powered ECW tribute here. If you want to add to your roster you can also check out my GVW take on the infamous Gobbledy Gooker here.

Go here and order your copy today! 

GVW Profile: The Gobbledy Gooker

I felt like playing around with Glorify Violence Wrestling!.  I also wanted to mess around with a seriously infamous gimmick (that inexplicably has been brought back a few times), the Gobbledy Gooker.

GVW Profile:

Height: 6'

Weight: 205 LBS

Hometown: Hartford, Connecticut

Signature Move: "Wishbone"; camel clutch

Finisher: "The Black Friday"; GTS

Signature Weapon: Skillet

Favorite Wrestler: Héctor Guerrero 

Least Favorite Wrestler: The GVW Brawler

The feathered wrestling phenomenon known as the Gobbledy Gooker started his life in the "Fed." Considered a joke by the biggest promotion in the game, he left for the indies, never really fitting in until entering the pool and bingo halls of GVW. Technical mastery mixed with highly directed violence is the Gooker's style. While he only speaks turkey, he knows how to communicate his feelings to the crowd (the crowd always pop for his "for the drippings" crotch chops). 

No one knows why, but the Gooker has a special reverence for the legendary Guerrero wrestling  family. If any family member or friend of the family can rely on the fowl fighter for aid. In contrast, the is some animosity between the Gooker and the GVW Brawler because of their connection to Stamford, CT.

Glorify Violence Wrestling!

GVW is a Mork-Borg powered hardcore wrestling zine that's a collaboration between Alan Bahr of Gallant Knight Games and HodagRPG. The zine is 20 pages of hardcore heaven! The rules are pretty bare bones, but Mork Borg isn't a game known for being super detailed so that works. This is what you get in the zine:

• Gimmicks (archetypes): Brawling Bruiser, Technical Master, Hardcore Legend, Aerial Assassin, and Ring General
• Rules: character creation, tests, getting hurt (busted open and injured tables), doing violence (how to run a match), common actions, how the crowd reacts to you, 
• Random Charts Bay Baby!: Wrestler names, signature weapon, crowd reactions, audience object table, finishing move table, PPV name/location table, event space table, manager table
• Two in-universe character bios (with hidden stats). I think I've decoded them:
• Work Rating = Toughness
• Pop Rating = Presence
• Rope Rating - Agility
• Power Rating = Strength
• Tough SOB Rating = Hit Points

The art and layout is great. It definitely has a DIY zine feel to it and the art is fitting. It also has a faux magazine look which is nice. One issue some folks have with Mork Borg content is that it's super busy looking. This is one isn't. It's easy to read and easy to follow. If you want an ECW rpg, this is for you! Eventually the print zine will be avaible on the Gallant Knight Games page, but until this you can still get the pdf here.