As such, we played all players in order of initiative and each had the usual trio of action known in 4e. So in effect, a PC could Tackle a ball carrier (std) grab the fallen ball (Minor) and make a run for it.

We did hit a snag, which I’ll touch in my next post, in that I ended up putting all kobold players on the same initiative count, which ended up giving them an unfair advantage (I ended up killing the sorcerer with an all out ganging up by all 5 kobolds).

I honestly expected it to be a bit unsatisfactory. My experience suggests that you should always convert RPG characters to tabletop rules, not the other way around. (Ie. Warhammer quest characters to Warhammer Fantasy Battle rules, rather than vice versa).

Did you do anything to limit the number of blitzes? Part of the tactics of bloodbowl is that only one player per team turn can move and attack*. That’s very different to the 4e standard of -everyone- doing so.

* For the uninitiated: everyone else on the team can move -or- attack. Only one player gets to do both.

Hell, I thought I posted my report already… something must have glitched…

I wanted to suggest some rules you could add to make it more like a real BloodBowl game.

1. The weather needs to change drasticly at the beginning of each half. Exemple: Snow to rain, or sunny to a dence fog.

2. Everytime a team lose the ball or miss a throw, the whole team lose his initiative and dex bonus to his AC until the next turn.

3. The crowd needs to get the ref at the start of the game.

4. You have to include a player with a chainsaw, mowing players around the field.

I like Bloodbowl. But all those things, especially points 1,2 and 3 are iconic symbol of the complete nonsense which IS a game of Bloodbowl. In fact I would add this:

5. You need to have a wizard messing with the game constantly.

Exemple: Casting a force field around the player about to throw the ball… imagine what happen next…

Games like this always make me think of the old Circus Maximus game. I never got a chance to play it myself but it sounded like a blast so I was always curious.

If you run a game like this again, I have an idea you might like. Since you might whip the zam-bone-y out ahead of time if someone fails really badly (or possibly even tour it out for a round just for amusement value and see if the players poke at it or not), your end encounter might seem slightly anticlimatic. One way to keep interest might be to have whoever has to fix the thing come out and be angry at the PCs for breaking their favorite toy or for re-breaking the machine they get stuck fixing all the time. Whichever you think would be funnier to play off. I’d personally go with something kinda big and mean looking… And maybe use that NPC to transition to the next mini-adventure which would resemble a robo-rally and the players are tasked with picking up parts between matches (but just so happen to get caught in them a lot).

I shall borrow it someday!!

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All right time to let the PC alone and prep this game!

@justaguy: I’m planning how to stat it out. I’ll probably borrow from a Dragon or a Bulette.

@DNAPhil: It sure is a great way to reuse that awesome playing board!

I’ll keep everyone posted on my progress, as soon as I’m satisfied with the installation of my new PC

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