Orcball

[KaosDevice]

Aside from needing a severed head anyone know any of the other rules of orcball?

 

[Len]

It's pretty much like Calvinball, I'd say.

 

[Desdichado]

Aside from needing a severed head anyone know any of the other rules of orcball?

Rabbit holes. Echoes of Bullroarer and Golfimbul here...

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

It's pretty much like Calvinball, I'd say.

Things that will disqualify your team:
A. All of your team members getting killed.
B. Animating the head.
C. Proven use of steroids.

Things that will allow your team to win:
A. Killing everyone on the other time.
B. Burning down the closest human village, even if the people of that village are not otherwise involved in the game.
C. Scoring 147 points by using the head to knock down a member of the other team and anyone who is watching from the side lines.
D. Divine intervention on your side.

 

[Arkhandus]

A hollowed-out torso for the goal is a must.

 

[KaosDevice]

The reason I ask is that over many (many...*sigh*) in various publications you get references to orcball (or trollball, but hey that was Runequest wasn't it?). I wondered if there was a codified set of rules for it anywhere, or perhaps some should be created.

 

[Len]

I don't think there should be codified rules. Orcs are pretty chaotic, and lots of games like baseball and football started out as games with rules that differed from town to town.

Besides, if orcball ever shows up in your campaign, it's more fun to make it up on the spot so the PCs don't have a chance. E.g. "You're in the Shrinking Zone! We get to cast reduce person on you."

 

[Tonguez]

When I was a lad we invented a game which we called Ogre-Ball

basically the whole school (well all the boys anyway) would go out on the feild with a basketball (I think we had 70+ out at one time)

1. The objective is to get the ball to the other end of the feild and throw it over the goal post

2 you aren't allowed to run with the ball
3 if you have the ball it must be kicked or tossed
4. you can tackle the man with the ball (or anyone who gets in the way)
5. if a man is tackled and still holding the ball then a maul begins (at which point everyone (ie the 20+ people) would pile on until the person at the bottom screamed or the ball reentered play)
6. if you scream or get injured it is because your soft and don't deserve to play
7. the Game ends when the other team is too soft to deserve to play
8. the ball can be any convinient object from an actual ball to a plastic drink bottle to a spare jersey (or severed head as long as the teachers don't object)

 

[Testament]

The Rules in "GRUNTS!" were simple. Get the head into the other team's bucket. Those are the rules, those are ALL the rules, they even said so. So we ended up with one team on horses, the other on Harley-Davidsons.

 

[VirgilCaine]

I don't think there should be codified rules. Orcs are pretty chaotic, and lots of games like baseball and football started out as games with rules that differed from town to town.

Besides, if orcball ever shows up in your campaign, it's more fun to make it up on the spot so the PCs don't have a chance. E.g. "You're in the Shrinking Zone! We get to cast reduce person on you."

That's perfect for adapting
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ch/20011210a

this scenario.

[ [musing on]

Or, unaltered, maybe some Underdark race. Derro, maybe. They're big on taking prisoners.
[musing...] ]