is Efedding finally dead

[Juice]

It's been a dying trend for years, but out of curiosity I have been looking for an active fed tonight, and can't find any. Seems like 2014 was the last year. Anyone know of any that are still open

[01010010 01101001 01100011]

We got one down in the Games section I believe.

[cageking666]

Dec 5, 2015 21:12:51 GMT -5 01010010 01101001 01100011 said:

We got one down in the Games section I believe.

Had one. Kinda hitting a rough patch recently

[jagilki]

I was fairly into the e-fed scene for a few years, and yeah it's on a downturn.

However I've seen a place recently that looks promising, and the guy running it has done well in the past. I just don't have it in me any more.

-edit-

However there ARE still a lot of feds out there it's just a matter of finding them. If you wanted, I could probably put together a list of a handful of them if you ant.

[Limity (BLM)]

So what exactly is an e-fed? I remember they were huge during the Attitude era, and I remember joining one despite having no idea what I was supposed to do.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Taz BURIED some Efedder on his show last week.

Granted, the kid called Taz up and was trying to ask him to use things on his show to make an efed, and Taz didn't really understand what he was saying so he just got irritated and started yelling.

I used to efed a lot in high school, haven't in a long time because it kind of goes south every single time.

[Juice]

Dec 5, 2015 21:23:35 GMT -5 jagilki said:

I was fairly into the e-fed scene for a few years, and yeah it's on a downturn.

However I've seen a place recently that looks promising, and the guy running it has done well in the past. I just don't have it in me any more.

-edit-

However there ARE still a lot of feds out there it's just a matter of finding them. If you wanted, I could probably put together a list of a handful of them if you ant.

Dude I think we were friends in a past efed and then saw each other here. Can't remember for sure though.

I don't know if it's too much worth your time to compile a list. But thanks for offering. I am just not sure if I will even join.

[jagilki]

That's a tougher question to answer than you think.

Mostly because there are so many different TYPES of e-feds out there. But to simplify as much as possible it's (typically) a RPG based in the wrestling world.

Most of the basic variations are

Roleplay Fed: The person in charge puts you in a match against somebody. All parties write a roleplay, and depending on what the people judging the match decides, that determines the winner.

Angle: Everybody involved writes angles for what will go down on the show, there may still be roleplays, but they don't determine winner/loser

Match: Same as roleplay, only all parties submit a written out match instead of a roleplay. Best submitted match is put into the show as the official match

Video Game: It's all simulated via a video game.

There are many others, but those are the basic. Then you have real wrestler vs. Created wrestler (the choice of if the fed has real people in it, or your own made up guys.)

-edit- That answer was to "what is an e-fed"


Not sure. I admin'd a e-fed resource site for a few years, so, I've ran into a laaaaarge number of e-fedders all over the place. There are a lot of them out there I've heard of.

What would your normal character be?

[Juice]

Dec 5, 2015 21:45:24 GMT -5 jagilki said:

That's a tougher question to answer than you think.

Mostly because there are so many different TYPES of e-feds out there. But to simplify as much as possible it's (typically) a RPG based in the wrestling world.

Most of the basic variations are

Roleplay Fed: The person in charge puts you in a match against somebody. All parties write a roleplay, and depending on what the people judging the match decides, that determines the winner.

Angle: Everybody involved writes angles for what will go down on the show, there may still be roleplays, but they don't determine winner/loser

Match: Same as roleplay, only all parties submit a written out match instead of a roleplay. Best submitted match is put into the show as the official match

Video Game: It's all simulated via a video game.

There are many others, but those are the basic. Then you have real wrestler vs. Created wrestler (the choice of if the fed has real people in it, or your own made up guys.)

I always loathed anything that wasn't a roleplay based winning system.

[Deleted]

Dec 5, 2015 21:48:21 GMT -5 Juice said:

Dec 5, 2015 21:45:24 GMT -5 jagilki said:

That's a tougher question to answer than you think.

Mostly because there are so many different TYPES of e-feds out there. But to simplify as much as possible it's (typically) a RPG based in the wrestling world.

Most of the basic variations are

Roleplay Fed: The person in charge puts you in a match against somebody. All parties write a roleplay, and depending on what the people judging the match decides, that determines the winner.

Angle: Everybody involved writes angles for what will go down on the show, there may still be roleplays, but they don't determine winner/loser

Match: Same as roleplay, only all parties submit a written out match instead of a roleplay. Best submitted match is put into the show as the official match

Video Game: It's all simulated via a video game.

There are many others, but those are the basic. Then you have real wrestler vs. Created wrestler (the choice of if the fed has real people in it, or your own made up guys.)

I always loathed anything that wasn't a roleplay based winning system.

It was basically a "who writes longer roleplays" thing. I used to be a pretty serious business E-fedder and I wrote goddamn novels on a weekly basis that had to be terrible if I could read them now. Just run-on paragraphs where we completely dissect everything each other say. Angle fedding was so much funner in the end but I remember even in my day angle feds seemed like a dying thing.

[Deleted]

E-feded for like 7yrs in the early 2000s over at MSN groups real fun time met cool ass people and then the drama kicked in and certain people left me and this girl essentially got gifted the fed since we were the most dedicated roleplayers next to the owner...but the drama kept on and on untill former owner returned and put the final word it was done.

IDK what the scene like is now but I still see some around much like real wrestling e-fedding is just a niche thing but if you cannot dedicate the time to it then it is a come and go very quick type of thing.

[Deleted]

I was on and off in efedding over the years. Did a little bit in 2006, came back and got serious in 2009. I was In and out of the same place until it closed in 2013 and then helped start the successor fed as an admin and one of their first champions. But it's so hard to find a fed with an owner and/or staff that aren't jackasses. I quit and have flirted with coming back a couple of times since 2014, but the old fed sucks and no other Feds really satisfy what I'm looking for.

But yeah, there are still efeds out there.

[Super Weak Machine]

I was pretty big into it, but that was over a decade ago. The first one I joined was based out of a wrestling board I frequented, and the others were all essentially offshoots of that one, or run by people I knew from there.

From the beginning I treated the whole thing like a wrestling-themed creative writing contest. I like to write, but I need well-defined boundaries or it just completely runs off the rails; confining my writing to wrestling with specific characters and promotions is exactly that. Somehow, I was able to find success without writing novels; most of the best guys wrote pages and pages, but I was always able to compete despite generally doing less.

[Pooh Carlson]

Back when Vince Russo was editor of Raw Magazine, and I was like 13, I emailed a question about why Jeff Jarrett wouldn't let Debra show her puppies. His reply was something about the Westminster dog show. My email address was attached to the letter in the magazine and I got a bunch of emails from women calling me sexist, and I also got an invitation to my first e-fed. I took control of Scott Steiner and started a stable called Big Balls (Catchphrase: "Big Balls are gonna rock your world! Holla if ya hear me!") Over time I created my own character that I use as a CAW to this day. My favorite angle I pulled was when I quit and made a new email address and started sending cryptic emails and had everybody wondering who the mystery man was. Also at another point I had a split personality which was fun to write. Haven't done one since like 2007ish, but I had some good times growing up with those.

[ayumidah]

Tumblr still has new roleplay ones. Prolly not very good but they're there.

[Heartbreaker]

Had a bad experience in the efed I left last year. The owner and his ratchet buddies would bash their least favourite real wrestlers in promos and through the efed's twitter thread (like a kayfabe twitter feed for characters), they kept doing this to my friend who played AJ Lee. She got annoyed and left and shortly after I left too.

It's a shame that efeds have a shit load of ****ing drama cause I used to enjoy writing promos and skits.

[Mozenrath]

Dec 6, 2015 4:13:17 GMT -5 Heartbreaker said:

Had a bad experience in the efed I left last year. The owner and his ratchet buddies would bash their least favourite real wrestlers in promos and through the efed's twitter thread (like a kayfabe twitter feed for characters), they kept doing this to my friend who played AJ Lee. She got annoyed and left and shortly after I left too.

It's a shame that efeds have a shit load of ****ing drama cause I used to enjoy writing promos and skits.

Roleplaying seems to bring a lot of bizarre dramatic types out of the woodwork. I was a member of a forum once where they had to ban a blind woman who was playing Wonder Woman after she was basically trying to stalk someone and get their real address.

[Tyrannosaurus Sex]

Dec 6, 2015 4:13:17 GMT -5 Heartbreaker said:

Had a bad experience in the efed I left last year. The owner and his ratchet buddies would bash their least favourite real wrestlers in promos and through the efed's twitter thread (like a kayfabe twitter feed for characters), they kept doing this to my friend who played AJ Lee. She got annoyed and left and shortly after I left too.

It's a shame that efeds have a shit load of ****ing drama cause I used to enjoy writing promos and skits.

Yeah, this. Apparently insulting someone for being a fan of someone publicly and using pictures from the real life person's Twitter and personal life to create fake drama or using your character in scenes without asking your permission is not bullying or misusing said character at all.

[DZ: WF Legacy]

I remember being apart of an e-fed in the very late 90s called HWF. I was the 'paperweight' champion and tag team champion with British Bulldog. I RP'd as Owen Hart. Guy who ran it was named DJCooley7. It was one of my first internet social activities.

It's cool that they at least lasted as long as they did. I guess as time goes on there will be fewer and fewer due to technology.

[Grennel]

Still do it to this day, although I'm more of a behind the scenes guy these days. I absolutely loath writing matches but love the positive feedback I get when I work hard.

The most common types of dramas that I have encountered have come from those Triple H pricks who buddy up with the Fedhead, produce crappy promos, win the top title and refuse to job. Yeah, I've seen those dickheads cause countless wars that ultimately cause 75% of their Feds to shut down.

To this day I still use Parker Davis as my CAW. Dude is special to me man... Mike Cheese to a lesser extent.