Talk:Blood Bowl

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External link (http://www.games-workshop.com/fanatic/sp_games.asp?systemid=bb) does not work - page not found

Fixed. (I'm not much impressed by Games Workshop's site navigation: it took far longer to find the new location of the page than it ought to have done.) --Paul A 04:11, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
I very much agree, is hopeless trying to easily find stuff on their sites. Plus their content seems to differ slightly from country to country, so sometimes you can find what you are looking for if you try all over again looking through a different country's site. Mathmo 06:13, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand the line "akin to a very violent version of American football". Blood Bowl has little to do with American Football and is much closer to rugby. Arctic.gnome

Remember a lot of people who play this are unfortunate americans who have no clue what rugby is (although on the other hand GW is a british company and rugby is a british sport so maybe it really is from rugby....). Mathmo
Blood bowl is very similar to American Football, (which is of course, not all that different from rugby in the greater scope of things) but some specific differences are in the nomenclature of the game, the turns being dubbed 'downs' and the scoring arena 'endzones'. Also note the role of forward passing. I do agree however the flow of play is much more akin to rugby, but the game is styled after American Football.

Jervis Johnson designed Blood Bowl as a parody of American Football. The "god" of Blood Bowl is NUFFLE, a parody of NFL. neoliminal

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[edit] External Links

Is it appropriate to spam individual league's links here? If so, I will add but if not, most of the links could be deleted. MLA 13:21, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re-drafted Blood Bowl page

I have substantively re-written the Blood Bowl page on a slow day at work and it is now closer to being a wikipedia article than previously. Wikipedia is not for specialists/insiders only. My version addresses Artic.gnome's issue - Neo, your answer doesn't resolve that query. Also, I've removed all the leagues that were spammed here (I took advice on that and it was a large number of links for such a small page). I would be happy to discuss any part of this edit. The purpose of it was to have an article that looked more like a wikipedia one and less like a fanboy/insider article. MLA 15:00, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

I will not add again the link to the LABB league, but this league is not a local league of any kind is a online league opened to all spanish speakers that could come here by chance. DarthBLU 23:39, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
I can understand why you might want to put up the links to leagues but wikipedia isn't really the place for that. There are plenty of available spaces around the internet for league advertising including the BB forums, TBB, the many fansites, the webring. I haven't added my league and the only links that are currently on the page here are resources of some kind. MLA 15:22, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
Perhaps if this is the spanish wikipedia we should have included LABB? Mathmo 06:13, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Happy to remove links, feel free to do so yourself. I don't really know what the NAF site is about and if that link is basically also just advertising then scrub it out plus any others that shouldn't be there. I've tried to leave the ones that provide access to info such as the GW sites, Galak's site etc. MLA 08:31, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
The NAF site, while requiring paid membership, is the official players society for Blood Bowl and was suggested by Jervis Johnson and created from the ground up by myself (John Lewis,BBRC) to facilitate the growth of the game. It's as close to an official site as you can get without being an official site. The fact that it requires a membership fee doesn't invalidate it's authoritative tournament ranking of all the major tournaments, nor it's close ties to GW. The site is non-profit.neoliminal 18:26, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
Why has the link to the NAF site been given as a citation, rather than directly linked to (either in the text or in the External Links section)? Joemanji 10.28, 20 August 2006 (GMT)
Added 3 resource websites (Travellers mini's, Narkotic's pic archive and Ithilkir's fluff archive. Also added a sentence listing the 4 main PBeM leagues (but didn't add any links). Darkson 19:46, 30 November 2005 (GMT)
Took out that section - would be useful if you could put back a link to the tool or to rework the section so that there's an elite list of leagues as currently there seems to just be one and its not the one that I have heard of. Previously this page was pretty much a link depository and there's a risk that it could become that again. MLA 17:22, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Good job on the rewrite. I would like to see a removal/rewording of the FLUFF section as that's an RPG/Warhammer buzz-word with some pejorative connotation. Why not just call it 'background' instead as it makes more sense to the non-gamer. Also, we need a picture and I think it should be of the best player in the game: GRIFF OBERWALD.--littlemute 17:00, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monsters of Midway

Can anyone confirm that BB was based on Monsters of Midway?neoliminal 00:47, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Based on the way the wikipedia works, it's up to the anon user who added that entry to site a source to show that and I would doubt that they can. MLA 09:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tournaments are not new

Who thought tournaments were a new phenomenon? Games workshop sponsored tournaments might be new... but the game has always focused on tournaments. The very name "Blood Bowl" is a tournament. As are the Chaos Cup etc. Mathiastck 17:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Tournaments are not necessarily new, but I believe the suggestions pertaining to tournament specific rules are new in the rulebook, since tourny play is now different to league play. I haven't read the new rules yet though to be sure.--Herbjunkie 21:18, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Online Blood Bowl

Without advertising specific leagues, a section mentioning the web based communities and ways of playing the board game might be worth including.In particular the Pbem (play-by-e-mail) client developed by Galak and Skijunkie's (at the time of writing outdated) java-client have helped keeping the community of addictet fans grow.[from heinz]

Agreed ... I'll work on adding a section that discusses the online community because the LRB 1.0 through 5.0 have been greatly impacted by the online community and to leave it out completely is a mistake. [Sept 11, 2006 GalakStarscraper]

I used to love the OLBBL. It worked well over mIRC. Mathiastck 18:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Online Living Rulebook

If the Living Rulebook is 'now online' like the entry states, could a link be provded to it? The Kinslayer 11:42, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I have edited things a bit to make it more explicit that the LRB can be downloaded from the official site. Personally, I don't think a separate link is necessary, but I'm open to other views on this. Cheers --Pak21 11:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Cool, thanks for that. TBH, it was mainly for my own benefit! I found my old copy of Blood Bowl whilst cleaning out my attic the other day, and looked it up on here out of curiosity. The LRB is similar to something I did for my own benefit a few years back, when I started collecting house rules all over the net, but gave up in the end! The Kinslayer 12:07, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
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