| Blood Bowl |
 | | Manufacturer | Games Workshop | | Designer | Jervis Johnson | | Publisher | Games Workshop | | Years active | 19 | | Players | 2 | | | Age range | 10+ | | Setup time | 1–10 minutes | | Playing time | 45-150 minutes, depending on rules version | | Random chance | Medium (Dice) | | Skills required | Strategy, Probability | | Website | http://www.specialist-games.com/bloodbowl/ | | Blood Bowl is a Fantasy Football game created by Jervis Johnson for the British games company Games Workshop) (but now under the aegis of their Specialist Games division) as a parody of American Football. The game was first released in 1987 and has been re-released in new editions since. Blood Bowl is set in a fantasy universe similar to, but not the same as, Warhammer Fantasy, populated by traditional fantasy elements such as human warriors, goblins, dwarfs, elves, orcs and trolls. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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Fantasy football is a genre of board game or wargame which normally involves two teams of fantasy races (such as elves, dwarves or orcs) competing in an extremely violent variant of American football. ...
Jervis Johnson is a game designer for Games Workshop. ...
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Specialist Games is division of Games Workshop which sells tabletop wargames aimed at older gamers who seek more tactically challenging wargames than those sold to Workshops core market (which is served by such games as Warhammer 40,000). ...
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Strictly speaking, Blood Bowl is not a tabletop wargame, though it is probably closer to other Games Workshop inventions such as Warhammer Fantasy Battle than it is to traditional board games such as Monopoly. Wargaming can be one of number of ways of exploring the effects of warfare without actual combat. ...
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The most recent purchasable edition of the game remains the third edition. However, the latest edition of the game available is the Living Rule Book 5 (LRB5, also known as Perpetual Blood Bowl League or PBBL).
Game basics Blood Bowl is a turn-based two-player board game that typically uses 28 mm models to represent players on a board containing a grid of squares representing the field. Using dice, cards, and counters, the players attempt to outscore each other by entering each other's endzone with a player who carries or receives the ball. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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The "Blood" in Blood Bowl is represented by the violent actions available to players. Game play is based on a hybrid of American Football, Rugby, and ultra-violent fictional sports events such as Rollerball. Players may attempt to injure or maim the opposition in order to make scoring easier by reducing the number of enemy players in the way. For other uses, see Rugby (disambiguation). ...
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The players themselves are drawn from the ranks of fantasy races and have characteristics that reflect the abilities of those races. Elves tend to be agile and good at scoring, while Dwarfs and Orcs are more suited to a grinding, physical style of play. Players are also divided up into positions, typically noted by their most suited role on the field including Throwers, Catchers, Linemen and so on. For alternate meanings, see Lightning (disambiguation). ...
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In league play, the players may gain additional skills and abilities based on the accumulation of experience points and also can pick up injuries or even die, and teams can improve by the purchase of off-field staff such as cheerleaders, assistant coaches and apothecaries. Cheerleading is recreational activity and sometimes competitive sport involving organised routines including elements of dance and gymnastics to encourage crowds to cheer on sports teams. ...
Rules
Blood Bowl Players At the heart of a Blood Bowl game stands the player. (The human player controlling the Blood Bowl players is called the Coach.) Each player is represented by an appropriate miniature and has statistics and skills that cover his or her effect on play. There are four player statistics: - MA (Move Allowance) indicates how fast the player is.
- ST (Strength) indicates the player's basic fighting ability.
- AG (Agility) indicates how good the player is at playing the ball.
- AV (Armor Value) indicates how hard it is to injure the player.
In addition, players may have skills that affect any number of circumstances in play. Some of the more commonly used skills are Block (for fighting), Dodge (for avoiding fights), Sure Hands (for picking up the ball), Pass (for throwing the ball) and Catch (for catching the ball).
Player Actions In his or her turn, a coach may have each player take one of the following actions: - Move - Move the player through empty squares (opposing players may try to trip the moving player if he or she moves close to them).
- Block - Fight an adjacent opposing player who is standing.
In addition, the following four actions may be taken by one player per team turn: - Blitz - Move and then Block an adjacent opposing player who is standing (or Block and then Move).
- Foul - Move and then foul an adjacent opposing player who is prone.
- Pass - Move and then throw the ball.
- Hand-Off - Move and then give the ball to an adjacent player.
Some skills also allow for special player actions.
Turn-overs If a player action fails, the team turn ends immediately (with some minor exceptions). This is called the turn-over rule, and is a defining game mechanic. The turn-over rule makes every action tense for the coaches, and together with the four-minute rule (a team turn must be completed within four minutes) it can make the game very high-paced.
Background The Blood Bowl universe has its own background which establishes the tone and spirit of the game. Additional background exists to describe the demeanour and character of the Blood Bowl players with frequent reference to rule breaking and over-the-top violence in a light-hearted manner. The over-the-top nature of the game is reflected in the game mechanics, including the use of stylised secret weapons as well as in-game effects. A secret weapon is either a concealed weapon, or a weapon that is not officially confirmed by the owner. ...
Blood Bowl includes numerous tongue in cheek references to real life products and companies. The deity overseeing Blood Bowl is Nuffle - a pun on the pronunciation of NFL. Many companies are spoofed in the game. Three of the most frequent are McDonald's (McMurty's), Budweiser (Bloodweiser) and Adidas (Orcidas). Many team names in the game's background are spoofs as well such as the Orcland Raiders (Oakland Raiders) and the Darkside Cowboys (Dallas Cowboys). Famous sporting personalities are parodied as well, with the most famous (and oldest) coach in Blood Bowl's background being Tomolandry the Undying (Tom Landry), and one of the most recently added stars being the Ogre thrower, Brick Far'th (Brett Favre). NFL redirects here. ...
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With the advent of the 3rd edition, there was a move toward the traditional Warhammer Fantasy Battle world with the miniatures moving closer to their Warhammer Fantasy Battle counterparts. Jervis Johnson, designer of the game, has admitted this was not the best direction for the game, and has since stated that the Blood Bowl world is similar to, but definitely not the same as, the Warhammer world.[1] This has been reflected in recent changes to the rules of the game and that newer miniatures for the game have been more sporty in demeanour. Jervis Johnson is a game designer for Games Workshop. ...
History
First edition - Released in 1987, the first edition of Blood Bowl was a simple game that used many of the elements of Games Workshop's existing tabletop games. Players in the first edition boxed set were represented by small pieces of cardboard illustrated with their likeness. Citadel Miniatures did release 13 metal miniatures to represent players for 1st edition but this covered only a small portions of the range of players in the game.
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Second edition - The second edition of Blood Bowl, released in 1988, began to move Blood Bowl away from the battlefield mechanics of other Games Workshop systems and toward more brutal sports-oriented play. The game was played on a pitch represented by a polystyrene board, and the players within the boxed set were represented by plastic 28 mm miniatures covering the Orc and Human races, with another set of metal miniatures available from Citadel Miniatures to represent most (but not all) of the players from other races. Games Workshop later provided two source books, Blood Bowl Star Players (1989) and the Blood Bowl Companion (1990), which added to the basic rules, creating games with greater variation that could easily last several hours.
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Third edition - A new edition was released in 1994, radically changing the game play away from the complex, lengthy second edition game to the simpler, more dramatic third edition game. Key changes were a set number of turns and the turnover rule. These changes increased the pace of the game and allowed it to be played within a couple of hours.
- Also featuring in the third edition was a completely new range of miniatures, including new versions of plastic 28 mm humans and orcs in the boxset, often closely resembling counterparts in Warhammer Fantasy Battle, though without the weapons. This, combined with new races mirroring Warhammer armies and the renaming of player positions, brought Blood Bowl much closer to Warhammer Fantasy Battle.
- In 1995, the third edition of Blood Bowl won the Best Miniatures Rules of 1994 Origins Award.
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Fourth edition - Jervis Johnson produced a new official 4th edition of Blood Bowl and presented it in the Fanatics Game's Official Blood Bowl magazine issue 1,[2] with follow-up rules presented in issue 2.[3] The new rules were a large departure from the previous edition, with numerous changes, and Johnson later admitted that "some of the changes would have benefitted from rather more rigorous playtesting".[4] In 2001, the 4th edition rules, with corrections and retitled 4th Edition Gold were placed on the Games Workshop website as a downloadable pdf file, and Johnson announced that the rules were now "experimental"[5] and announced the creation of the Blood Bowl Rules Commitee (BBRC), a group of Blood Bowl players, some GW staff, some not, that would look at the rules once a year, and produce new official rules changes and experimental rules for possible inclusion in the following years rules changes.[6] The BBRC would met in October each year, and their first release was the Living Rule Book 1 (LRB1).
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Living Rulebook - Since its release, the third edition of Blood Bowl has experienced many changes, largely driven by the large and vociferous player base. These changes have been combined into the current version of the rules, known as the Living Rulebook. The majority of Blood Bowl is now played by these rules though variants do exists, due either to house rules devised by individual leagues or to the transition into online play.
- The Living Rulebook, currently in its fifth edition, is available from the official Blood Bowl site. Originally there were plans to release it in print for Blood Bowl's 20th anniversary, but this has since been cancelled.[7] Work on this fifth edition, known as LRB 5.0, was started in March 2004 and the final product, based on just over two years of player testing, was released on August 1, 2006.
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Chaos League French-based Cyanide Studios developed a game called Chaos League which bore a heavy resemblance to Blood Bowl in its style and rules, but was not officially licenced. Chaos League is a real time strategy fantasy based sports game developed by Cyanide Studios and published by Digital Jesters in 2004. ...
Games Workshop has announced that Cyanide Studios now have a licence to create computer games based on Blood Bowl,[8] and that "Any differences between Games Workshop and Cyanide have been amicably settled for an undisclosed sum, and as part of the settlement the Chaos League title has been assigned to Games Workshop".[9]
Leagues and tournaments League play is the foundation upon which Blood Bowl games are based. There are many kinds of league activity but it all ties into a general campaign in which teams battle against each other over a period of time, developing new abilities and suffering injuries or worse while attempting to be crowned league champion.
Tournaments are one-off events whereby large numbers of Blood Bowl players gather to play against each other and at try to become the tournament winner. This form of play does not act like a campaign. Games Workshop holds 4 Major tournaments across the world each year. The Blood Bowl is held at Warhammer World, itself at Games Workshop's HQ in Nottingham, England in the spring and attracts around 200 players to play in the 2 day event, making it the biggest Blood Bowl tournament. The Dungeonbowl is held in Germany, the Spike! Trophy is held in Canada and the Chaos Cup is held in Chicago, Illnois, USA in October. Numerous other events are held throughout the world, both at Games Workshop stores and events, or independently. In January 2003 a website was opened for the purpose of helping people to organise their own Blood Bowl tournaments, to promote Blood Bowl to the wargaming world and to rank players performance at tournaments. The organisation took the name NAF, after the fictional rules body in the Blood Bowl history."[10]
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jervis Johnson is a game designer for Games Workshop. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jervis Johnson is a game designer for Games Workshop. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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External links - Official site, including the Living Rulebook.
- NAF World Headquarters
- TalkBloodBowl.com, a Blood Bowl discussion forum
- JavaBBowl, a Java client allowing Blood Bowl to be played online in real time
- FUMBBL, an online league for the Java client, with thousands of active players worldwide
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