Blood Bowl: Living RuleBook (2004)

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Designer	Jervis Johnson
Artist	Carl Critchlow Wayne England David Gallagher Pete Knifton Richard Wright Show More »
Publisher	Games Workshop Ltd.
Year Published	2004
# of Players	2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (44 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	120 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (19 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups (20 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Thematic Games (33 voters) [vote]
Category	Fantasy Fighting Miniatures Sports
Mechanic	Dice Rolling Variable Player Powers
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Expands	Blood Bowl (Third Edition)
Family	Blood Bowl Fantasy Sports Warhammer Fantasy Board Games
Primary Name	Blood Bowl: Living RuleBook
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Blood Bowl is the game of Rugby slash Football slash Soccer as imagined in a fantasy world of orcs and elves. The game truly shines in a League format, where players gain experience and learn new skills as they play.

The latest rules are now version 6.0. The biggest change is the new Inducement system that does an infinitely better job of balancing teams of different experience. All of the team rosters have also been tweaked, with the previous runaway leaders toned down to everyone else's level. And as a great benefit to teams feeling the need to start over after a first bad game, the Journeyman system ensures you will always have 11 players on the field.

This game is a part of the Blood Bowl Series

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Nicodemus055's Blood Bowl Dugouts

Dugouts and a turn/reroll area for red and blue Blood Bowl teams.

nicodemus055

2009-09-23

Nicodemus055's Blood Bowl Field

Corrected Blood Bowl field with the right number of rows. Tiled for printing. This tiling was done manually, and does not cut out any of the field, as the original automatic tiling did.

nicodemus055

2009-09-23

Dungeon Brawl (1.1) = Multi-player Dungeon Bowl

My rules for playing BloodBowl in a dungeon with more than 2 players, using small teams of 4 miniatures/player. Unbalanced, but fun! This is the version formerly published in the Citadel Journal. The much improved and expanded 2.0 version with treasures, traps and action cards is not yet written down, sorry...

wolfzell

2009-05-26

Team Manager LRB5.1.1 with 2009 new teams.zip

This excel file lets you create any Living Rule Book 5 team, including the 3 new 2009 teams (Chaos Pact, Slann, Underworld)! Star players and inducements included. Italian interface with english contents.

Frustandantilus

2009-03-26

Game System Replacements

Generic System markers for all Rerolls, Cheerleaders, Coaches, etc. Print at 100%, no size to margins. These can be mounted on themselves but are designed to be mounted on Columbia Games 24mm Blue and Red Blocks.

bk_otj

2008-07-04

BBBubble LRB 5.4 Team creator.xls

Fairly Simple but effective Team creator for LRB5.0

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2006-09-10

roster.xls

Blood bowl xls roster

cpahle

2005-05-31

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Tutorial básico de Blood Bowl (parte 1 de 3) en Dos Maracas de Diez.	http://dosmaracas.blogspot.com/2011/01/tutorial-ba...	2012-01-21
Wikipedia entry for Blood Bowl	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Bowl	2010-04-12
Download link for the 2010 Rulebook	http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article....	2010-02-27
Superb Blood Bowl Tactics site	http://bbtactics.com/	2010-02-23
Xbox 360 Version Review: "Blood Bowl Review: No Fun League"	http://kotaku.com/5462884/blood-bowl-review-no-fun...	2010-02-04
Blood Bowl Discussion Site	http://www.talkfantasyfootball.org	2009-11-23
Online Blood Bowl League	http://www.olbbl.com/olbbl/LRBindex.asp	2009-03-10
Blood Bowl miniatures and illustrations galore	http://www.bloodbowl.org/	2006-11-15
Blood Bowl miniatures reference site	http://www.blood-bowl-miniatures.de/	2006-11-15
Blood Bowl online league with 16500 coaches and 100000 teams (600 games daily, about 2000 active coaches each month). Quite an awesome site actually.	http://fumbbl.com	2005-02-02