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[Shadowclaw777]

Spoiler: Team Insectiod, Go! (click to show/hide)

Team Designation: Insectoids (Insect Humaniods)
Species Description:
Nest Defenders: insect-ant bipedal humanoids that are born with a natural thick chitin. Are connected to a hive-mind from the Nest Queen and are just mindless drones that only have the directive of succeeding in Blood Bowl, no ability of free-thought or critical thinking. Carries a innate black-pigment for their body
Scout Moths: Slimmer and shorter insect humanoids that have the facial features of a moth, carries barely functioning glider wings. However their looser frame and more flexible exoskeleton results in them being more nimble and mobile.
Skorpions: Much more longer cousin of the insect humanoids with scorpion facial features and a surrounding tail. Their chitin isn't as armored as compared to the normal ant insectoids, however this unit is much more extendable which allow them to hold an elongated tail that can shoot out disorienting acid at enemy players.
Rhino Beetles:This Is the best your going to get. Heavy player in the Hivemind, these are slow upfront insect humanoids that resemble a rhino beetle. Reinforced chitin and the ability to ram other creatures when enraged are their speciality, but naturally uncaring when not threatened
Extraordinary Abilities: Naturally innate chitinous plate is often considered stronger than many forms of human steel, they have a difficulty of taking wounds and dying, and can hold a front line quite well. Also lacking free-will and controlled by a single entity, the Queen, means panicking isn't an option.
Apothecary: Standard

Lineman: Nest Defender
Lineman ICON: Soon
Lineman Name: Nest Defenders
Lineman species/appearance: Grey-pigment chitinous insect humanoid, its facial features resemble an ant, has two normal bipedal legs. Not some weird four legs and two arm creature.
Lineman characteristics: Quite armored and can take a hit, holds a line quite well. However, their natural armor means lacks of mobility which results in not being able to run, just scramble its legs really fast.

Specialist (0-4): Scout Moths
Specialist Icon: Soon
Specialist Name: Scout Moths
Specialist Appearance: Insect humanoids that have removed their thick chitin and average stature, to become much more nimble and more difficult to hit. Genetically attached with forewings that allow them to poorly glide across the field, these creatures are annoyingly hard to tackle and take the ball from. They carry a light purple pigment in their chitin.
Specialist Characteristics: Equipped with light chitin and smaller than the normal lineman, these creature have the nimbleness and insect wings to give them escape routes when facing threats. Their nimbleness also means that trying to tackle and take the ball from them is more difficult, but really can't take a hit.

Specialist (0-2): Skorpions
Specialist Icon: Soon
Specialist Name: Skorpions
Specialist Appearance: slim-looking insect humanoids that trade their thick chitin armor, for extendable chitin that allows them to have a venom-launching tail, a tail that can disorient or even wound other creatures at range. These are orange-pigment insect humanoids
Specialist Characteristics: less armored than the lineman and still quite slow, these specialists have the ability to disorient to even occasionally wound other players at range.

Big Guy: (0-1)
Big Guy name: Rhino Beetle
Big guy Appearance: These insect humanoids are the sturdiest and strongest creatures that the Insectoids can field. These black goliaths are feared by many mortals, and they are surrounded by a reinforced chitin armor plating that makes them nearly impervious to almost any physical force, but these creatures are naturally docile and unconcerned in the game of blood bowl. Including the nature that their heavy chitin-plate slows their mobility significantly, however, they are easily enraged and will be prone to charge and ram into other humanoids and creatures, if challenged.
Big Guy Characteristics: A heavily armored Insectiod with its reinforced chitinous plate, and surrounded with head ornaments, to match. This creature is a walking fortress, but it is naturally docile but is easy to anger, which results in other humanoids often being on the wrong side of this creature's giant horns when it starts to trample.

@Supernerd My race kinda resembles the dwarves, one of the races that are just, well have a high skill cap. They are really hard to kill but have the mobility of a snail, they are a pretty bad race.

[Criptfeind]

I'm kinda interested to see how this would work out. A normal blood bowl game could have over a thousand decisions made throughout, each one of which could have a post and potentially day in between making here. Hopefully this can go faster then 3 years per game.

I'm more comfortable with a bashing team, but seeing as we've already got three bashing teams and a hybrid bashing/stunty team, I suppose a more dodgy option would at least be a more interesting option.

Team Designation: Ethereals
Species Description: The Ethereals are a race of energy beings from some place far beyond this reality. They've traveled far, shifting though multiple dimensions and across eons of space and time. Their goal in this reality? To play some blood booooooooowwwwwwwwwlllllllll!

The Ethereals are a race of energy beings that only exist partially in this reality, they appear as glowing humanoid figures that move with an unearthly grace and speed, and often seem to be only barely real as they phase in and out of reality. When playing the game of blood bowl they wear specialized uniforms to help stabilize their existence on this plane of reality to handle the ball and other players.

Extraordinary Abilities: Out of Phase: The Ethereals are not part of this reality, and it shows in how little substance their bodies actually have. Although a blood bowl player is much more tied to this reality then normal thanks to their uniform, it still leaves large amounts of their substance as wispy and hard to get a firm grasp upon, sometimes making it hard for opposing players  to grab or push them.

Apothecary Type: Standard. Although made of a strange substance, with their uniform their bodies are as vulnerable to disruption as anyone else given enough force. At which point they'll be forced back to their own reality to be tended to by their version of an apothecary.

Lineman (0-16):
Lineman icon: Not really an art guy but I'll try to get this in later.
Lineman name: Ethereal lineman
Lineman species/appearance: The standard Ethereal player is a glowing mass of humanoid energy projecting itself into a lightly armored stabilizing blood bowl uniform to allow it to play in this reality. Although roughly as strong as a human, the Ethereals are noted for having a grace and speed that blesses even their lesser players. Focused more on avoidance and moving around the pitch rather then a toe to toe confrontation with their enemies, the Ethereal lineman makes for a speedy, if somewhat fragile, player.
Lineman characteristics:

Specialist (0-2):
Specialist icon: X
Specialist name: Ethereal blitzer
Specialist species/appearance: The blitzer is the bruiser who makes things happen on the ethereal team, wearing a heavier version of the normal stabilizing armor, Ethereals are trained up from those who showed a greater then average inclination towards violence in the lesser leagues. Although their training neglects the aspect of avoidance that most other Ethereals are focused on, in return they've learned to be much better at both giving and taking blocks, which along with their natural Ethereal grace and speed makes them ideal for sacking ball carriers.
Specialist characteristics:
Specialist limit: 2

Specialist (0-4):
Specialist icon: X
Specialist name: Ethereal catcher
Specialist species/appearance: When a young Ethereal is particularly athletic and speedy, they might grow up to become a famed Ethereal catcher. Heavily trained and equip with an expensive version of the stabilizing armor that offers even less weight then those worn by the linemen, catchers are famous for both the speed at which they can move across the pitch, weaving into and out of enemy lines, as well as the seeming ease with which they catch balls, even the toughest of catches in the hairiest of positions seem to be no match for these hotshots of the Ethereal team.
Specialist characteristics:
Specialist limit: 4

Specialist (0-2):
Specialist icon: X
Specialist name: Ethereal thrower
Specialist species/appearance: The counterpart to the Ethereal catcher is of course the thrower. Not as fast or well trained at catching as the catchers, the throwers instead have focused on their ability to hold onto and eventually throw the ball. Their focus is to stand in the back, protected by their team and their own agility until they spot the perfect opening to throw to their team mates.
Specialist characteristics:
Specialist limit: 2

Spoiler: I made some awful images (click to show/hide)

Blocker

Catcher

Lineman

Thrower

I imagine them working somewhat like an elf team. High agility and movement, some dodgey fun times, and low armor. Play the points game and avoid getting bashed to heck.

[bloop_bleep]

PTW. This looks fun.

[Failbird105]

Spoiler: Nar-Sie cult (click to show/hide)

Team Designation: Nar-Sie Cult
Species Description:
Cultists - Those Chosen by Nar-Sie, the Geometer of blood, to be her servants. They are just normal humans, but all of them carry around a set of empty soulstones, to be filled with those that die against them. They also have cool capes and purpose made skull mounting rods on their uniforms.
Shades - The spirits of the dead collected in soulstones, their presence is unsettling, their appearance is frightening, and they are exceptional at interfering with foes movements, however they are incredibly fragile, taking nearly twice as much harm as anyone else, and they're no stronger or faster than a human being.
Wraiths - Man-sized constructs with sharp pincers used for stabbing foes, they are covered in glowing crystals. They are quicker, but more fragile, than a human being, they supplement this with their ability to Jaunt, letting them phase out of reality to get to another location safely.
Harvesters - Large constructs with long arms and digitless hands ending in pairs of long claws for both slashing and stabbing, and they can make force walls However, their long blades are unable to function as hands.
Juggernaut - Very large construct with big powerful arms and bulky hands, they are built to take hits and deal even bigger ones, but they are slow and and lack dexterity. Juggernauts can create force walls and are brutal fighters, good at breaking through opposition, however they only run so long on one soulstone charge'
Extraordinary Abilities:
Force walls - some constructs can create temporary invisible walls.
Jaunt - wraiths can phase out of reality temporarily, allowing them to travel unimpeded, but not take anything with them.
Soulstone - an object used to collect the souls of the dead, or release them as bound shades.
Apothecary Type: Nar-Sien Artificer- a type of construct that is virtually useless in direct combat, it can heal constructs and shades as a normal apothicary does flesh, but the living are beyond it. It does however produce empty soulstones.

Cultist (0-16):
Lineman icon:
Lineman name: Cultist
Lineman species/appearance: normal humans in bulky grey-brown armor with rods on their shoulders for the skulls of their enemies and long red capes.
Lineman characteristics: the same as human linemen, but trade in some physical training for a collection of empty soulstones.

Shade (0-6)
Specialist icon: (sprite pretty much directly from ss13)
Specialist name: Shade
Specialist species/appearance: vaguely humanoid cloaked figures, they retain the head and face they had in life, scaled to fit their new body and very pale.
Specialist characteristics: fragile, but frightening, and known to get right back up when knocked down
Specialist limit: 4

Wraith (0-4):
Specialist icon: (sprite directly from SS13)
Specialist name: Wraith
Specialist species/appearance:
Floating figures with bodies vaguely like humanoid upper halves.
Specialist characteristics: Brutal pincers for stabbing enemies, faster than average but not by much.
Specialist limit: 4

Harvester (0-2):
Specialist icon:
Specialist name: Harvester
Specialist species/appearance:

Floating figures, they have a large disc for a head that is suspended a slight distance away from the body, they have a ring of large red crystals jutting out from their body at regular intervals
Specialist characteristics: Fast and deadly, but good luck getting them to do anything that isn't killing or cult related
Specialist limit: 2

Juggernaut (0-1):
Big guy icon:
Big guy name: Juggernaut
Big guy species/appearance:

Long armed floating brutes, with an angular head holding a single red crystal as an eye.
Big guy characteristics: Big, slow, and good at keeping people away

Here you have my sheet.

[Supernerd]

Wow, I am surprised that I got as many submissions for this game as I did. I am going to take my time processing the applications. In the meantime, I will answer some questions!

Q: Can I make a team based on something that exists in a fictional work.
A: Yes, but you will need to describe it with your own words.

Q: Use pre-existing images if they are the proper size.
A: Sure. Why not?

Q: Can I make my own spells for my wizard?
A: I'm going to allow it, but you will have to run them by me first. They will also probably be available to everyone else.

I will also point out that being good is not a requirement for images for your players.

I have also decided that rules against spellcasters on the field will be a bit more lax in this game. However! Any spellcaster on the field is not going to be a very good one.

[ATHATH]

Yup, my sheet looks good. Thanks for finishing it/touching it up!

[Failbird105]

Q: Can I make my own spells for my wizard?
A: I'm going to allow it, but you will have to run them by me first. They will also probably be available to everyone else.

In that case, spell idea:
Manifest spirit:
Summons a spirit player(stats equivalent to human lineman) without skills for the rest of the drive

[Criptfeind]

A semi-permanent dude on the pitch would be a pretty big spell. Outnumbering your opponent is a large advantage, even if it's just with a 3/3 no skill scrub.

On the other hand lighting bolt is pretty baller so idk.

[Failbird105]

The problem is figuring out a good turn limit for it. What would you recommend?

[Criptfeind]

I dunno, it's hard to figure out the balance of making changes to a complex system... (I don't envy the gm trying to make a whole bunch of new races heh.) I guess maybe throwing it in and seeing if it's op or up is going to be the most accurate way of determining how good it is.

[Supernerd]

I've finished the rough draft for Golems. I was a bit unsure of how to really handle these guys, so I gave the basic linemen 4 strength, and made them super unreliable and slow. It will be a very hard team to play as it is.

[Failbird105]

So I have a fuckton of other ideas, could I put them together just to show them off?

[Kashyyk]

I was thinking Loner might apply better to the linemen than Bonehead. I'd also like to have the General skills at normal cost, but I guess it fits as is.

[Criptfeind]

If you're accepting comments, I think the golems might be a little (a lot) overnerffed. A line of St4 seems intimidating, but AG1 across the board (except on the no hands horses) he's going to have to cage in the back field and spend half the game failing to even pick up the ball at which point he won't have the mov to score. He... Basically can't actually win the game. On top of that not having general access means the golems basically aren't even going to be good at bashing people, which is the only thing they have the ability to do and his mov is like. Why even bother levels. Compare to like, lizardmen in BB, who are the same price, agility, strength, and AV. They have no negative skills, 6 mov, general skill access, and they are on a team with the skinks who are pretty good at handling the ball. Or Ogres which don't have general access but have a whopping strength 5 on their linemen to make up for it (and 2 agility and 5 mov so they can sorta handle a ball). The downside to the lizardmen or ogres is you can only have six, whereas you might mayyybe want seven or eight ideally. Even that's hard to say is a negative compared to the golems, since you'll be forced to take 9 of them, 8 if you want a wargolem, which is entirely too many, either way the balance will be off. Basically the only upside to golems is the wargolem is a very good big guy, with general access (which most big guys don't get) and a highish number of good starting skills he'll make a good (not as good as a CPoMB at higher levels maybe, but still pretty good) blitzer (but then again without hands the horses basically have to be blitzers, so if you've already got that covered by your big guy that's guts their reason for existing) but the rest of the team seems far too underwhelming to be worth it.

Also does mounting take the horses action? The riders? Or some of one of their mov? Is it free?

[Failbird105]

Yeah I'd say at least give the workers general skills.