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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1806205" data-attributes="member: 2205">(Geez -- hijacking my own thread.  Well, this'll be my last post on this subject...)Yeah, but the rules only favor long-running leagues, and the former rules only broke after considerable use.  In my experience, most leagues are relatively short-term leagues; after a season or two they disband, or hit reset, or for whatever reason have all new teams.  The old rules worked marvelously under that paradigm, and the new rules make that paradigm considerably more boring and slower paced than before.  While favoring long-term leagues, the newer rules ironically put up a pretty significant barrier to entry to getting leagues into long-term status by making the short term much less interesting and fun, and dynamic.  This is seen in the new aging rules, the trait/skill split, the new costs and earnings tables; I think the game has migrated towards favoring long-term chess-player type guys, and I think that is fundamentally at odds with the majority of the market, who want fast, loose, dynamic, bloody and more fun in a shorter term.  The new official rules cater to those who are in the Blood Bowl country club, while taking away a lot of the fundamental appeal of the game in the first place.To this day, the best Blood Bowl gaming I've ever had was in grad school right about the time of the very first third edition reprint.  Jervis used to post on the old bbowl-l listserve, and we had adopted a handful of what he posted there as official house rules (rookie big guys, Sigurd's Injury table, no star players) and after each season (which ran for an entire semester, with one game per team per week) we'd hit reset and everyone would start over with rookie teams again.Other than that, I also have a problem with using a straight d6 for most rolls; if the game were migrated to a 2d6 roll to take advantage of a better approximation of a bell curve, I think it'd also be more fun.  It's frustrating to see a good plan go to waste because you roll a one, hit your reroll and roll another one.  To some, that's a feature, not a bug, but it tends to turn me off.  I've had a pretty lousy season with my orcs this year, and most games I've lost have been (and my opponents have agreed) due to bad dice wherein I'm not sure what I could have done better other than roll higher.But that's another issue entirely.  And I didn't really have that problem before, it seems.</blockquote>

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