Blood Bowl is a boardgame, which is basically a fantasy version of American football. There are undead teams, and there are DWARFS too! Injuries are part of the game in Blood Bowl, there are actually some teams (Cough Khemri [Basically egyptian mummys and skeletons etc.]cough) that are more interested in *killing* opponents players than scoring touchdowns (Obviously, if opponent doesn't have any players, it's much easier to do touchdowns).
FUMBBL is a site, where you can use Javabowl (a blood bowl client that uses *gasp* java) to play other players. There are multiple divisions, like Unranked, Ranked, League, Blackbox (Blackbox = Basically, every 15 minutes, you can enter your team. If there are enough teams signed to blackbox, the bot takes the most even teams and schedules them against each other) and stunty (stunty is full of custom weakling races. One game, I literally had 7 players on my team die and have 4 seriously injured players).
Why FUMBBL over Cyanide's Blood bowl and what are the differences? Well, first of all, FUMBBL uses Javabowl, which is free (You do need to own the original board game for legal purposes, however). Also, instead of, what, 8 races Cyanide's BB has, FUMBBL has all of them + some custom races (basically all the stunties). Cyanide's Blood Bowl uses LRB6 ruleset, while FUMBBL uses LRB5 ruleset (there is a LRB6 client in the making, however). This of course means that some skills are different, but mainly the game is same.
Anyways, is anyone from Bay12 playing on FUMBBL? I was thinking that maybe we should make a Bay12games league? I could try to play against you guys in other divisions, if you are interested.
In case there *is* interest in bay12 league, any restrictions? I would personally allow Stunty leeg teams, while they are fun, they probably won't win against any 'real' teams. Also, we should probably start with basic 100 TR teams that don't have any games played. Should we have as a round robin league, tournament, or what system should we use?
Linkz:
http://fumbbl.com/ Main FUMBBL page
http://fumbbl.com/help:InstallingClient Help on how to install Javabowl
http://fumbbl.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=10053 Custom icons, mainly required if you are going to play on Stunty, otherwise, you have to be satisfied that instead of having icons, you just have balls with letter "B" or "S" etc.
Currently signed to the tournament:
1. Mipe9
2. Janekk (?)
3. Sowelu
4. USEC_OFFICER
5. ndkid
6. Dasleah
7. Cthulhu
8. Strange Guy
When you have finished making the team, please tell the team name here in thread so I can invite you to the group.