TNM Multiplayer (TNM-MP) Rules
Version 2.0 (20th April 2001)
created by Stephen Hutton
rules edited by Chris Migliaccio
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Contents

1.....Decide who is in charge
2.....Pick your circuit
3.....Create your circuit on TNM
4.....Decide on the rosters
5.....Champions and Feuds
6.....Scheduling, Writing and posting cards
7.....Hiring new wrestlers
8.....Firing wrestlers and leaving wrestlers.
9.....Re-Newing contracts
10...Messages between feds.
11...Final Message

1. Decide who is in charge!
One player needs to the President of the TNM-MP game. He does not have to run a circuit if he does not want to. He makes all decisions that can not be resolved through any means. When a player is the President then you shall need a VP to make decisions that involve the Prez.

2. Pick your circuit.
There are eight circuits from around the world available and any amount of independents. Each player gets to pick either a major circuit or an indy. The available circuits are as follows

North American: WWF, WCW, ??? 
Japan: NJPW, AJPW, NOAH
Mexico: EMLL, AAA

Not all circuits need to be taken and circuits not listed can also be taken.

3. Create your circuit on TNM
Go through the usual procedure for creating a circuit on TNM but do NOT hire any wrestlers yet. Make sure you have ALL wrestlers installed on your TNM, you never know when you may want to sign one.

4. Decide on the rosters
The WWF gets to pick 30 wrestlers or less from the respective feds current rosters. So as of the 20th April 2001 the WWF circuit could pick: Steve Austin, Paul Wight, Triple-H, Chris Benoit, Kurt Angle and 25 others from the WWF. WCW gets the 24 wrestlers picked up by WWFE, and six wrestlers from it's previous roster not already signed. WWF and WCW can share wrestlers. but WWF guys cannot be a part of WCW's basic roster.

As for the new promotions, a billionaire wrestling fan has decided to produce a new major promotion to rival the Big Two. This promotion will be able to pick up any wrestlers who WCW cuts, as well as any other free agents (lots of ECW guys, for instance). It will not, however, have access initially to any WWF guys that the booker doesn't take (say, for example, Essa Rios).  

Change your circuit to e-mail mode to hire wrestlers so you are guaranteed the 30 you want. Now sign them to the following contracts.
Thanks to Rick Garrett for this suggestion:
"10 wrestlers are signed to 12 cards
10 wrestlers are signed to 24 cards
6 wrestlers are signed to 36 cards
4 wrestlers are signed to 52 cards"
For independent feds:
15 wrestlers are signed to 6 cards
10 wrestlers are signed to 10 cards
5 wrestlers are signed to 12 cards
Once you have decided on the roster change back to regular mode and send the roster with the amount of cards you have signed the wrestlers on to the President. With Indy feds there is a good chance that they will have the same wrestlers in the roster, this is fine as Indy starts normally work with more than one fed and it is not unknown for wrestlers to work more than 7 dates a week.

5. Champions and Feuds
Set your champions as what they are currently (eg. Austin holds the World title in the WWF, Lyger holds the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title in NJPW) if you are running an indy then you can start as a fresh fed or assign champs as you want to. The same goes for feuds, for the big 8 go with the current feuds that exist in the parent federation but as the weeks go on you can develop and create your own feuds.

6. Scheduling, Writing and posting cards
Schedule cards as you would normally do, write them up however you like and post them where you want! It is upto the fed head how they decide results, you can either book them or let them decide themselves or even a mix. If you want to run an interpromotional card then you get in touch with the other fed head and ask them for a talent exchange. The two heads then decide how they want the match to be run, booked or shoot. You can schedule as many cards a week as you want but each card run takes off a card from the wrestlers contracts, try to keep in the flavour of the feds though.

7. Hiring new wrestlers
Every Sunday (or any other day of the week) circuits may try to hire free agents. Free Agents are wrestlers without a federation to wrestle in, you may hire upto 5 wrestlers per week, all hirings are done through the President or the VP. To decide if a wrestler will join the federation you need to roll a dice and add some modifiers to it. The modifiers are below:
Circuit modifiers
+2 wanted by a major fed - WCW, WWF, NJPW, AJPW
+1 wanted by a minor fed - ???, FMW, AAA, EMLL
+0 wanted by an indy fed
-1 40 or more wrestlers already in circuit
-2 50 or more wrestlers already in circuit
-3 60 or more wrestlers already in circuit
Nationality modifier
+ 1 wanted by a fed from own country (Japanese wrestler wanted by a Japanese Circuit)

The pres will roll a normal six sided dice and add or subtract any modifiers as appropriate. If the result is a 5 or higer then the he joins the circuit. When there is more than one circuit interested in a wrestler make a roll for each circuit, whoever gets the highest number gets the wrestler, if there is a tie then the wrestler has not made up his mind, the circuits that tied can try again next week.

8. Firing wrestlers and leaving wrestlers.
Wrestlers who are fired by the fed head are placed in the free agent pool. Wrestler who elect not to re-new their contracts, quit or who hand in their notice are placed in the free agent pool once they leave the roster. You MUST inform the President of ALL roster changes.

9. Renewing contracts
Wrestlers who's contracts are up for re-newal will inform you of their intentions in your own circuit. If he wants to re-sign then he will ask you in your own circuit. You MUST be honest about this, there is no-way to prove that people are cheating but it is in the spirit of the game to be honest and enjoy it when your top-star leaves. It gives you a chance to make new talent...

10. Messages between feds.
At the start of the TNM-MP game the pres will send out the circuit roster with everyones e-mail address on it, this allows you to communicate between feds with out going through a medium. Every Monday a mail will be sent out to every fed head informing them of firings, hirings and anyother news that may be appropriate. If you want to set up interpromotional cards, talent exchanges or send a guy to another fed for a few months to get a gimmick makeover - it's upto you. Everything you can do in real life you can do in TNM-MP

11. Final Message
This is the first draft of there rules, obviously not everything is perfect and people may not agree with some rules. These rules will be continually updated due to feedback and TNM-MP games. If you wish to set up your own TNM-MP games then go-ahead, but if you run into any problems ask your president and he can make up a house rule for the circuits. All updates to these rules shall be posted on the TNM Mailing List, if you want to post these rules on a web-page or email them onto someone then feel free to. All I ask is that you do not edit anything that has been presented here. If you would like to see a new rule put it then email me and I shall try it out and update the rules if it works.
But most of all, enjoy the game, be honest and feel free to give me any feedback - good or bad :)