r/bloodbowl

I'm creating a blood bowl dice set mould to start creating my own custom bloodbowl dice. For the standard D6s - do people prefer pips or numbers? I've already made my D16 mixed (not-spindown)

Side question - any UK based gamer interested in a personalised set in exchange for promo pics of the dice with your team?

You can view my dnd sets for an idea of my styles (hoping to get the first bloodbowl set ready within the fortnight)

So my thrower hit 16 spp and can afford a stat up. She already had block along with every other positional. I am thinking hoping for passing to help abuse the prayers that give spp for passing and just give me more options. What does everyone think?

Was playing a game yesterday where we ran into a scenario where we where not sure what the rules wanted us to do. A troll had been knocked prone and was trying to activate with a move action. It rolled for 'Really Stupid' and failed - does the Troll both become prone and distracted at the same time? That's how we ruled it since we could not find that you where limited to one condition at a time. Was this correct?

Best regards! / G

EDIT: just realized that this matters theoretical, if the prone player also get distracted because that changes if the player has a tackle zone if he stands up outside his own activation (For example with Pick-Me-Up) he would stil be distracted and have no tackle zone.

I was looking at the offers and I saw that the Blood Bowl 2 Legendary Edition is very cheap and it caught my attention, but I don't know if I should get the 3 which is more recent.

Yo, I am planning on getting back into Bloodbowl after many years away and I wanted to know if vampires are a good team to use to get back into the game? They were amoung my favorite teams to use in Bloodbowl 2 along side Tomb Kings and Halfings. I already bought the box set for vampires cause they look cool.

Also would like to know on if they play any different from the old bloodbowl 2 team that I was used to playing, mainly with the new positions they added.

Bloodbowl feels awesome to play, and I am one of the ones who thinks that leagues are the pinnacle of the experience. However, there are some shortcomings that are tough to avoid when designing a game.

But to me, one of if not the most obvious shortfalls in a very fun progression experience, is that each category more or less has the “correct” pick. (General is block, Ag is dodge, passing is leader, strength is Guard/MB, devious is dirty player, and I can’t really speak to mutations but it does seem more balanced). Now GW did attempt to head it off with the elite tax, but A. I don’t think it went far enough, B. It only addresses the very top of the skill board, not the bottom, and C. The meta is still to fire players that get the bad skills if you random because of team bloat, essentially erasing them from the game.

To me, there are a few solutions, though I would like to hear more.

The one I think that is most feasible for a homebrew league to implement is more tiers on skill costs. So we have the elite skills already. But imo there should be more tiers (with better names than these), e.g. ALSO THESE TIERS ARE JUST EXAMPLES. I AM SURE I HAVE MIS-TIERED SOME. I would like suggestions, but please understand it is more about the tier idea than the specific skills in the specific teams.

Elite ($50k): Same skills as GW

Great ($35k): The other skills we usually see taken: block replacements (besides brawler), tackle, wrestle, strip ball, break tackle, sidestep, grab, kick, steady footing, hit and run, sprint, sure feet, pro etc.

Fine ($25k): The skills you don’t mind seeing come with your team:
Thick skull, defensive, jump up, fend, accurate, nerves of steel, on the ball, strong arm, bullseye, leap, diving tackle, brawler, etc.

Situational ($15k): Diving catch, cloudburster, dump off, fend, steady footing, taunt, etc.

Rare ($10k): Fumblerooski, punt, multiple block, safe pair of hands etc.

The reason being is fumblerooski is fun! Bullseye troll is fun! A lineman with frenzy/hit and run is fun. But these aren’t things that are viable in the game currently, which is a bummer. Now obviously the tiers will be wrong, and some skills are stronger on certain players than others so we still won’t see a break tackle hefty or something like that. But I think there needs to be encouragement to have some obscure skills.

The other ideas are revising existing skills which is essentially rewriting the game (splitting block and dodge into offensive and defensive uses), rebalancing teams, and just not worth going into. So what do you think? Any other ideas? Any better tiers/tier pricing than what I put out there?

So I have recently got Blood Bowl II and been playing it.

I seem to do ok with my brutal teams like Dwarfs and Chaos but then I made a Skaven team and I'm struggling hard. I've played two league matches with them and while I can win on points I'm getting my team butchered. Each game I take two injuries and a death.

Now I don't know if I'm facing the wrong teams. First was Dark Elves and second was Undead. But I'm willing to guess it's more my play style being used to brutal teams and wanting to get in there and make holes to run the ball through.

So I was hoping to get some advice from expert coaches on how better to run a Skaven team so I don't keep dying which is making it hard to advance in league play since I keep having to spend my winnings on new players.

Also PS. I am not sure if my choice of sponsors is part of the problem. I got a sponsorship from Skaven Cheese obviously and they got naming rights over the team and named us the Cheesemongers. But they also send over lots of cheese before games and I've even caught some goblins sneaking in and force feeding my rat ogre Skaven cheese before matches. I think all the cheese before matches is making my players slow and catchable. I need them hungry to win. Should I try to change sponsors?

Ok so just got the 3rd season starter set. Started reading the rather weighty book and there is a lot to take in!

Even just deciding on the roster for the teams is a little daunting with all the different things you can add such as cheerleaders / fan factor / inducements / re-rolls etc.

I would like to get playing first and then try and then pick up some of the more detailed stuff later.

What I don't want to do though is omit anything that is fundamental to how the game operates.

Clearly defaulting the weather as "Perfect Conditions" is an obvious one.

In a nutshell I'd like to play a basic but balanced game with a friend and try and explain as few as rules as possible to them without trying to remember 900 little details!

So two questions:

1. Using the starting teams from the box what would be a recommended team roster for each for an initial match using as few additional rules as possible?
2. What other rules apart from the weather table would people recommend omitting for a first game?