![]() ![]() So, we have different weather charts depending on where we’re playing. In another nod to pro-wrestling, the fluff on our league is that teams travel around The Old World putting on matches…think of it like wrestlers travelling around in the days of the territories (a setting, I’d still love to see gamed). Sounds lame and uncreative, but it’s based on the failed XFL (Xtreme Football League) that Vince McMahon ran for a season in the early 00’s. So, my league is called The XBBL, the Xtreme Blood Bowl League. So, there’s still something fun to do even as a basement team. Well, I do throw a bone or two to the lower placed teams as they can play in a Dungeon Bowl or the like that same week the top teams play for the final. The self-generating peer pressure in my leagues prevent that…you can hose all the other players by pulling out. I’ve found that these sort of regulations provide more buy-in than the standard open format does where coaches drift away when their team does poorly. Coaches are also expected to contribute to the weekly league newsletter. All coaches are expected to attend on game nights, but we’re flexible when these nights are. I don’t do open format, but have a season schedule posted. The elevator pitch to interested coaches is that we’re more akin to an RPG group than a standard Blood Bowl league. ![]() Even know a fella with these as a tattoo.) Well, that effectively ended the D&D campaign. Somehow he and I hit it off talking about pro-wrestling…I ended up dumping that group and joined this other dude’s.Ī few months after joining this D&D group, I floated the idea of Blood Bowl to a few of the players who, being football fans, were receptive. The game was a disaster, but about midway through the game a DM from some other group happened to pop by to visit with our DM. I went to a D&D meet-up advertised at a local game store. Not knowing a soul in Austin, I did something I never thought I’d do. Upon graduation, I moved to Austin, TX only keeping two of those minis heavy GW games. This tapered off a bit around ’97 as I was finishing off college and focusing more on going out to music venues and hanging out with various crews. Sure, we still played the occasional game of Advanced HeroQuest, Man O War, Silent Death or Necromunda, but they all seemed to be diversions between Blood Bowl leagues. We grabbed a few buddies and started up a small league which killed off most of any other type of gaming. Gone were most of the charts as these new dice took over the bulk of the results. We had seen several preview images in White Dwarf and I liked the look of the minis on this new game with their aesthetic more closely matching that of their Warhammer cousins We played a few games with the standard humans and orcs, and were blown away by the mechanics. Not long after that, 3 rd edition came out. (Throwers #5 and #16 are still my favorite BB minis of all time. We played around with it a bit, but it didn’t quite stick in our house and we went back to RPGs, Heroquest and the like. I had already been a seasoned Dark Future Op so rolling on charts for results (these weren’t technically CRTs) seemed like GW business as usual. Rolled on a few charts, then rolled on some others, finally we rolled on some more. Somehow my brother ended up with a copy of the second edition and I managed to land a skaven team. I think my first game of Blood Bowl was back in ’90 or ’91. ![]() A brief summary of my journey with my most played and explored game. ![]()
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