Gladiator Bowl!

The UniGoblin · Post by **The UniGoblin** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 8:04 am

I've come up with a fun idea for the teams in our league who won't be playing in the normal tournament. The Gladiator Bowl!

We're using a giant battlefield template pirated from some other rpg to build a huge cross-shaped board. 4 teams will play at one time. A team can score a TD in any endzone except for their own. I'll be fielding a goblin team I'm building from scratch just for fun, with ALL of the secret weapons freebooted, including the Snotling Pump Wagon!!! And I'm also gonna pitch the idea of adding a neutral Thrud into the match with a modified rule: at the beginning of the game and at the end of every other turn (end of 2nd turn, end of 4th, etc.) rolling a D4 determines which team controls him for those 2 turns...giving the possibility of him remaining on the same team for the whole game. It would certainly make it interesting, because one team will start with 12 players from the beginning, aside from any handicaps, which might not even be used, because my head may explode when trying to figure out how it would work out.

..but the kicker to this whole thing is...the ball does not get dropped into the middle of the field until the end of the third turn. This should create a disgustingly chaotic scene at midfield as folks muscle for position to get the ball.

Any ideas? Thoughts? Suggestions? Advice? Therapy?

I'd like to hear some other interesting Bowl games y'all have tested and how successful they were!

Zombie · Post by **Zombie** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 9:16 am

That sounds an awful lot like mega bowl. Why don't you just use those rules instead?

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 2:22 pm

I'd agree, try the Mega Bowl rules. We've used it several times. It's a lot of fun.

One change I'd suggest you make to your idea is that I'd make the teams only able to score in the end zone directly opposite their starting point. Make everyone cross the no-man's-land in the middle or you'll have some high scoring games.

grimfang · Post by **grimfang** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 2:39 pm

try scattering a few weapons around the pitch too...just adds to the mayhem... just modify the rules a bit to allow the weapon to be used b whoever grabs it, rather than allowing ONLY goblins to use bombs, or Only dwarfs to use a deathroller. Still.. 3 and 4 team games are fun even without the weapons.

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 6:05 pm

Hey, now that sounds like fun.

Ghost of Pariah · Post by **Ghost of Pariah** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 8:20 pm

Well we called it Death Bowl instead of Mega Bowl but, yeah what they said.

The UniGoblin · Post by **The UniGoblin** » Wed Dec 25, 2002 5:35 am

Ok...so, where would I happen to find the MegaBowl details?

And I was only speaking of secret weapons for my Gobbos, because...well frankly, they'd have Frosty's chance in my oven to win a game like this without them!!! So giving everyone weapons would greatly diminish my chances of at least enjoying myself!

KnuckleGutKiller · Post by **KnuckleGutKiller** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 10:04 pm

Where do you find Mega Bowl Rules??? Which board is used??

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 2:23 pm

KnuckleGutKiller wrote:Where do you find Mega Bowl Rules??? Which board is used??

http://www.midgardbb.com/BBMagArticles/Deathbowl.html

This is one Mega-Bowl variant. I've seen a great revision that didn't kill off the players teams or have a TR restriction, but this is the general idea.

Galak