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Blood Bowl: Second Season Edition
Blood Bowl: The Game of Fantasy Football - The Official Rules
Every coach, whether fresh-faced and green or hoary old pros, needs a copy of this essential update for playing Blood Bowl: Second Season Edition. This 136-page hardback book is absolutely stuffed with everything a budding coach needs to know.
The History of Blood Bowl: from the ancient origins of the game, surrounded in myth and legend, to the evolution of the modern sport. The story of Blood Bowl is as wild as the fanatics who love it.
Rules and Regulations: streamlined and updated for the Second Season Edition. Everything is explored in detail, from the basics, to recruiting a team, through to the actions your players can take, and the aftermath of the game.
League vs Exhibition Games: Blood Bowl can be played as one-off matches, and long-running leagues with loads of coaches competing for the top prize. Learn all about both.
Blood Bowl Teams: Updated rules including new Region and Team Special Rules, a tiered ranking system, and rosters for all 21 current teams.
Star Players: Every named Star Player now has their own Special Rule. Find current profiles for 23 of them here.
The History of Blood Bowl: from the ancient origins of the game, surrounded in myth and legend, to the evolution of the modern sport. The story of Blood Bowl is as wild as the fanatics who love it.
Rules and Regulations: streamlined and updated for the Second Season Edition. Everything is explored in detail, from the basics, to recruiting a team, through to the actions your players can take, and the aftermath of the game.
League vs Exhibition Games: Blood Bowl can be played as one-off matches, and long-running leagues with loads of coaches competing for the top prize. Learn all about both.
Blood Bowl Teams: Updated rules including new Region and Team Special Rules, a tiered ranking system, and rosters for all 21 current teams.
Star Players: Every named Star Player now has their own Special Rule. Find current profiles for 23 of them here.
136 pages, Hardcover
Published November 27, 2020
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January 1, 2023
The game is great. The rulebook is very pretty and fun BUT it's not a great rulebook.
This book needs some serious editing. The rules are hard to find, far too wordy and repetitive and basic and advanced rules are all mashed together in parts.
This would be a much more useful rulebook if the first (or second after the flavour / history) chapter just gave you all of the basic rules. Other elements could then follow in their own chapters. This would allow players to quickly get playing and learn as they go along.
It's not a great reference book either - finding the stats you need or deciding what you can do at different parts of the game seems to be split across different spaces.
This is still an outstanding game, no doubt, but the rulebook edit is just not well thought out - it's a bit of a mess.
This book needs some serious editing. The rules are hard to find, far too wordy and repetitive and basic and advanced rules are all mashed together in parts.
This would be a much more useful rulebook if the first (or second after the flavour / history) chapter just gave you all of the basic rules. Other elements could then follow in their own chapters. This would allow players to quickly get playing and learn as they go along.
It's not a great reference book either - finding the stats you need or deciding what you can do at different parts of the game seems to be split across different spaces.
This is still an outstanding game, no doubt, but the rulebook edit is just not well thought out - it's a bit of a mess.
September 20, 2024
This was a very well written rule book. The information is easy to digest and they do a great job of keeping all the relative information not only on the same page but in the same column. The back story of the game and the fluff is also very well written, entertaining, and humorous. Reading this has gotten me pumped to paint up these models and give this game a try.
December 31, 2023
Just different enough from the LRB era that there are so many small nuances to pick up on.
I don't think the playtesting is anywhere close to the previous standard when the rules were open, but I appreciate that a more thorough rewrite was done compared to the 2016 edition.
I don't think the playtesting is anywhere close to the previous standard when the rules were open, but I appreciate that a more thorough rewrite was done compared to the 2016 edition.
April 4, 2025
An excellent game and an excellent new rulebook for the modern era. Packed with detail, well laid out and colourful, wonderful to see that the variety of rules changes are more or less just clarification. Huge number of teams available. Class act 👍
July 23, 2021
18/20.
August 24, 2021
Remains the apex of what colliding the wild worlds of American Football and dark fantasy can bring.
January 27, 2026
I mean, it's a rulebook for a miniatures game, but still thoroughly entertaining.
February 8, 2026
2025 edition
January 13, 2021
Updated rulesbook. Contains some extra lore and stories on the side. They seem to have nerfed my favourite faction a bit (fair enough, they were OP). As always with GW products the artwork is well done and production values high, but this is a decidedly niche item and only worth the upgrade if you do actually play the game and want the latest ruleset
May 9, 2023
Is it possible to write a great rulebook that will read as pleasantly as a novel? Games Workshop knows excactly how to do it!
British developers managed to get us used to the great quality of their board games as well as all components related to them. It's no different with "The Official Rules"! The book was made of great materials, bound in a hard cover and printed on glossy, colored paper. It is intended not only to be read once, but to survive heavy exploitation so that we can look at it and, if necessary, verify the rules of the game.
Of course what Games Workshop is known for is hundreds of wonderfully designed illustrations from the game world. The whole thing was written in such a way that after reading this relatively extensive book (as for the rules of a board game), everyone is going to understnd the rules and was ready to sit down to the game. Fortunately, this is not just bare information, but a lot of interesting descriptions, stories of individual players or descriptions of the Warhammer world. We are introduced to various aspects of the game gradually and in a fun way thanks to a lot of funny inserts and sections.
To be completely honest, I've never come across such well-designed and written rules of the game! I guarantee you won't be disappointed, and everyone who is considering if Blood Bowl is right for them will know the answer after reading this book.
British developers managed to get us used to the great quality of their board games as well as all components related to them. It's no different with "The Official Rules"! The book was made of great materials, bound in a hard cover and printed on glossy, colored paper. It is intended not only to be read once, but to survive heavy exploitation so that we can look at it and, if necessary, verify the rules of the game.
Of course what Games Workshop is known for is hundreds of wonderfully designed illustrations from the game world. The whole thing was written in such a way that after reading this relatively extensive book (as for the rules of a board game), everyone is going to understnd the rules and was ready to sit down to the game. Fortunately, this is not just bare information, but a lot of interesting descriptions, stories of individual players or descriptions of the Warhammer world. We are introduced to various aspects of the game gradually and in a fun way thanks to a lot of funny inserts and sections.
To be completely honest, I've never come across such well-designed and written rules of the game! I guarantee you won't be disappointed, and everyone who is considering if Blood Bowl is right for them will know the answer after reading this book.
February 13, 2022
Nice bit of fluff in the first few pages. After that it’s just a rules manual, but those rules are pretty solid
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