13: Ice Hockey
Ice Hockey: Add ice skating to a sport where two teams try to hit something into a net with sticks but can also crash into each other.
It’s Friday The 13th, and no winter activity is more Friday The 13th than ice hockey.
(Though it seems Jason Voorhees has never killed somebody with a hockey stick. Nearly in the 2009 film.)
(Friday The 13th: The Series had a cursed snow globe that drew people into their fantasies.)
Even without that infamous use of a goalie mask, the sport itself is plenty yikes. Enforcers, players put on the ice specifically to fight, appear in the likes of Goon and a Leverage episode about how this is not a great thing to do in the long term.
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| Hence the Ogre in d20 Modern Art by (I think/hope) Darrell Riche |
Considering the speed and violence involved, I’m surprised Games Workshop never did an official ice hockey version of Blood Bowl. There are some miniatures along those lines from other manufacturers, as well as realistic human types too.
How could player characters end up doing this, aside from getting put in at school or running a sports RPG like Contenders? Leverage put Eliot undercover, and the almost legendary Die Hard knockoff Sudden Death led Jean-Claude Van Damme to have to take part in disguise, at the Stanley Cup no less.
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