Talk:Blood Bowl

message: External link (http://www.games-workshop.com/fanatic/sp_games.asp?systemid=bb) does not work - page not found —Preceding unsigned comment added by Knutux (talk • contribs) 07:27, 3 May 2004
: 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)
replies: text:  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)
thread_title:  Broken external link 

message: 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)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: I'm surprised... not even one mention of 'Death Zone', the expansion pack that added all sorts of bits and peices! Checking the link i'm putting here, there was TWO expansion packs! Blood Bowl at BoardGameGeek JaffaCakeLover (talk) 16:37, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death Zone and the other Expansion Pack 

message: Can anyone confirm that BB was based on Monsters of Midway?neoliminal 00:47, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text:  Also I confirmed with Jervis Johnson personally that this item was not true.  He had never seen Monsters of the Midway when he developed Blood Bowl. GalakStarscraper 13:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monsters of Midway 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Tournaments are not new 

message: 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] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.72.240.7 (talk • contribs) 15:08, 9 September 2006
: 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. GalakStarscraper Sept 11, 2006
: I used to love the OLBBL.  It worked well over mIRC. Mathiastck 18:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why has the Online Play section been removed now?  There are probably more people playing online versions than the board / video game combined and the online community has helped keep the game alive TomorrowsDream (talk) 14:26, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Online Blood Bowl 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text:  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)
thread_title:  Online Living Rulebook 

message: Reverted to a previous edit, as a user had changed the setting to the Warhammer universe, whereas it's been commented by Jervis Johnson (the games creator) that the direction that it took closer to Warhammer Fantasy Battle with the release of 3rd edition was a mistake, one they're now changing.  He also confirmed, on more than one occasion, that Bloodbowl is now set in a world similar to, but not Warhammer. Darkson 23:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bloodbowl setting 

message: I think the tone of this piece is pretty solid overall. What elements need to be redone to remove the tone note? ZargonDDG 10:00, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think there's anything egrecious, though it's still exceedingly un-stylish. Chris Cunningham 14:43, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What elements still need to be rewritten? 

message: I see no evidence for the things which are being un-deleted. Personal claims of knowledge aren't acceptable for Wikipedia. Chris Cunningham 20:17, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Then accept the interview file that Darkson has linked where the creator of the game says this material.  This removes the claim from personal to quoted. GalakStarscraper 19:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done. As I say, the problem was with it not being sourced originally. Chris Cunningham 19:28, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

text: But the pop culture stuff is what makes Blood Bowl SO different from any other board game that would be similar.  I've played a lot of games in my life ... the pop culture and story behind Blood Bowl is what kept my interest.  Not many board games have fan fiction written for them. For that reason I believe these to be important. GalakStarscraper 19:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Meh. The point was to try to keep it to a rational length. Lord knows too many Wikipedia articles end up consisting of little more than OR observations that the subject spoofed some object in popular culture. Chris Cunningham 19:28, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Willing to conceed this point ... I'll delete a couple of the least know (like the TV networks). GalakStarscraper 19:30, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  April 2007 edits 

message: I think there should be a rules section. The Wikiproject Board and table games (I placed the template on this page) says: "A brief synopsis of the rules, sufficient only to show what is notable about the game or to distinguish it from other similar games. Lengthy sections and separate rules articles should be avoided -- after all, Wikipedia is not an instruction manual." That would IMHO mean something about player stats, player actions and turnovers at least. I'll see if I have time to start it. -Mattiasr 12:58, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no need for this kind of minutae in the article. Exhaustive relisting of the game rules would give them excessive coverage relative to such aspects of the subject as its impact, contemporary popularity, influeces et cetera, and could even be construed as infringing on GW's IP (especially considering how draconic they are known to be over such). let's just keep to giving enough basics that the reader has an understanding of how the game plays out, as opposed to actually being able to play the game using the article as a reference. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 16:26, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rules section 

message: I think there's a little error considering the pass action. It now states as follows: "Pass - Move and then throw the ball (or just throw the ball)." However current LRB5 clearly states that: "Once per turn a player on the moving team is allowed to make a Pass Action. The player is allowed to make a normal move, and after he has completed the move he may throw the ball" ... Meaning that you are allowed to declare a pass, move your player and then decide to not to throw ball at all. Your pass action will be wasted however. 
Although it sound a bit dumn, it is often used when player has already decied to "just move" his/her ball carrier, thus knowing that no pass is going to be happen. This allows the player to change his/her mind if for change a good pass oppurtunity reveals itself after moving the carrier. Another more obvious effect of this rule is that you may cancel your throw attempt when you have first moved your player to throwing possition and then realize that the pass wasn't so good idea at all.
88.115.204.172 (talk) 08:57, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no need for this kind of minutae in the article. Exhaustive relisting of the game rules would give them excessive coverage relative to such aspects of the subject as its impact, contemporary popularity, influeces et cetera, and could even be construed as infringing on GW's IP (especially considering how draconic they are known to be over such). let's just keep to giving enough basics that the reader has an understanding of how the game plays out, as opposed to actually being able to play the game using the article as a reference. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 16:26, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change proposals for rules section 

message: I added the video game section, but am unsure of your formatting. Fix as needed. JAF1970 00:16, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Video game

message: I've long thought that Blood Bowl was a boardgame adaptation of the Trollball rules in the Runequest extension Trollpack, but I've never found confirmation of this
Leridan (talk) 01:40, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trollball 

message: The description of the inspirations for the game "Game play is based on a hybrid of American Football, Rugby, and ultra-violent fictional sports events such as Rollerball." Could either be interpreted as "Game play is based on a hybrid of the following three: American Football, Rugby, and ultra-violent fictional sports events such as Rollerball. or "Game play is based on Rugby, which is a hybrid of American Football, and also ultra-violent fictional sports events such as Rollerball.
The second interpretation was how I read it initially, which was confusing as I know rugby is not a hybrid of american football, and thought that large of a mistake was unlikely to be made.
118.92.106.226 (talk) 10:14, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusing terminology

message: Something is wrong with the Bloodbowl 2009 video game link.
It brings up a dowlload link that dose nothing.
Sorry if this is the wrong place for this but thought it needed mentioning as its been like that for about a week now.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.34.231.232 (talk) 17:34, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whats wrong with the Blood bowl 2009 link?? 

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message: Since the 2016 edition the scale has been upped from 28mm to 32mm. 
On the games workshop site it often mentions that the team is supplied with 32mm bases e.g. elfheim eagles: "Supplied with 12 32mm Blood Bowl bases...".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lawrence of course (talk • contribs) 17:56, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scale - now 32mm not 28mm 

message: In my opinion, the capital B on the 'Comic Book' section of the article on should be changed to lower case as it looks better in my opinion. Xboxsponge15 (talk) 15:24, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capital B on the 'Comic Book' section of the article 

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