Jervis and Marc are being extremely humble here - creating the core of one of the greatest games ever made. The last World Cup, that Jervis mentioned, had around 2,500 people playing in it. I think the only games that run bigger tournaments are Magic the Gathering, and Chess. Quite an achievement from such humble beginnings. Thank you to both, and so many other contributors, for such a great game.
I never played blood bowl, but what intrigued me about the game, as a late 80s WD reader, was how it seemed to weave around the Warhammer world in its own way but ultimately had its own vibe going on. Really interesting how Jervis and Marc talk about this in the video. Love these video interviews- nice one Filmdeg, thank you.
I would have picked up blood bowl with or without the 2016 edition dropping. Jervis Johnson is an icon and frankly i cannot belive how humble he is being. He set up the NAF to continue the game, that insane. Filmdeg, these interviews are sensational please keep up the good work xx
Jervis Johnson signed my 1st edition copy of Blood Bowl when he visited the Baltimore MD Battle Bunker. My friend and I were playing the 10mm Battle of Five Armies set. Jervis enscribed my copy of Blood Bowl with "Keep Rolling 6's! Jervis Johnson". And I did roll 6's...I failed all of my command rolls for the rest of the evening 😅😅😅
I picked up Rogue Trader when it was first released, and was fascinated with it, but I had no space to set up a game, or anyone to play against, as no one else was interested, at the time. I picked up the second edition of Blood Bowl on release, and was hooked. I now have every edition of the game, except for the most recent, and a full complement of teams, and Star Players (kit-bashed, when necessary) from the Living Rulebook edition, which was peak Blood Bowl for me. I intend to keep them forever, and they have survived many game and miniature culls over the years, simply due to the many fond memories, and friendships forged, from this game. I have no children of my own to bequeath them to, but have nieces and nephews who may be in for a surprise, one day… :) Blood Bowl was my gateway game into the Warhammer hobby, so, I guess, both thank you, and damn you, Jervis, Mark, et al… 😈 Honestly, GW dropping the game was the best thing that could have happened to it. The Blood Bowl community not only kept the game alive, but helped it grow, to the point, unfortunately, where GW realised they could squeeze some more money out of it, and decided to pick it up again. All I can say is thank Nuffle for One Page Rules - the only reason I can continue to afford to wargame to this day. I was out of wargaming for decades, due to the prices, by OPR has been my saviour, and has reignited this old fart’s love of the hobby. Oh, and Jervis, while it is not your game, I feel Blood Bowl will always be your baby. 😊 Cheers,
I was one of the original group who helped create the NAF so many years ago. It's so cool that it's still going strong today thanks to the awesome Blood Bowl community!
Nuffle giveth, nuffle taketh away. Just finished painting my Ork team this morning for next season in a league in a small city in south germany, with about 40 players. Thank you both so much for creating the best game!
Blood Bowl is such and amazing game! I loved it as a 10 and 11 year old in the 90s in the UK, and rediscovered it living in the US Midwest in my 40s. I’ve barely played anything else the last couple of years! Thanks so much for organizing and posting this conversation. Your channel, and Jordan Sorcery, have given me a wonderful new perspective on the games I loved as a kid, and rediscovered 20-30 years later. Keep up the good work!
Great channel, and this is the best game ever created. My brother and I have been playing it since its creation and currently am playing with 20 active teams. I even write my own yearly journals now. Thank you!!!
The best game. For my GSCE Technology project I made a stadium for my polystyrene pitch. Well, I tried to! It's a testaments to the longevity of the rules that I didn't play Blood Bowl for over 25 years once I left school, picked it up again a couple of years ago and was still good to go!
GW was right to fear Bloodbowl stopping customers buying minatures. I only have 18 teams. Love the story of the game being handed over to the community. Beautiful.
I got into Blood Bowl when 2nd edition came out. I still love how much character that range of minis has - who knows maybe I'll actually finish painting them all some day.
When I joined as a shop worker they were still stocking 3rd edition. The manager was asked by a customer to demonstrate the game, which he did. Manger sold the game and a bunch of minis… however, he got a formal reprimand as a company store spy had spotted him and it had been forbidden to promote by head office… he was very (understandably) paranoid after that incident.
They've been instrumental in creating an amazing sports fantasy game. I had a thrilling BB2020 rules game in Spain a couple of years ago with my Elfheim Eagles and those dastardly Human team that did a last minute long throw win.
BB is my favourite game by far. This was interesting, but would love more of a deep dive on the process of creating the 3rd edition rules that form the basis of the game to this day. Also, does anyone know what the 4th edition changes were that Jervis rowed back on - alluded to in the last 10 minutes of this video?
Great little game with so much passion, and punning, behind it. I know that's what appealed to me back in the day. I even remember cobbling together some Warhammer golf rules at some point for the same sort of reason - turn based, opportunity for violence, etc.
I don't know where so many people (Americans and Brits alike) got the idea that soccer is an Americanism, but it isn't, at least not originally. Historically it was a very commonly used slang term for association football in the UK.
@@AndorianBlues I think it's one of the weird products of the Internet, social media, and getting to talk to Americans more often than we ever had before. Once we heard them refer to "football" and "soccer" as being different things, English people near-unanimously decided that "football" was the only acceptable term and "soccer" marked you as an outsider!
In the 80s when Blood Bowl came out it was still pretty common for middle class people (and Marc sounds quite middle class) in England to call football soccer.
I always stop bloodbowl.Wasn't the war hammer?Universe, birth and that's where space Marines went to the games to relax.But I, but I haven't read much into the lore.I'm a nerd but i'm not a super nerd
I never found 1st edition, but I have been playing BB since 2nd edition with the astrogranite board. Which I still have BTW. In case anybody was wondering which is my favorite team, I have fully painted 2nd edition, 3rd edition and BB16 Skaven teams.
To anybody interested, and ut appears not, Marc allowed(and I assume actualaly chose) an offensive letter to be published in the letters section of WD.. It involved the word "spastics".. When he alludes to being "underprepared" in the interview, I believe this event is what he is referring to. He was sacked shortly afterwards. Goodbye Marc, you're not really a nice person, are you.
"That was big of you" about Jervis admitting his mistakes on 4th edition - yes, quite. Would that many modern day hobbyists took themselves a little less seriously and acted like grown men in the original convivial spirit of wargaming and roleplaying.
For a second, i thought Jervis was saying he was playing actual American football not a boardgame version of it. Football as a sport is very interesting but the actual violence can be concerning. Pretty much every game behind the elementary school level results in someone getting injured.
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Jervis and Marc are being extremely humble here - creating the core of one of the greatest games ever made. The last World Cup, that Jervis mentioned, had around 2,500 people playing in it. I think the only games that run bigger tournaments are Magic the Gathering, and Chess. Quite an achievement from such humble beginnings. Thank you to both, and so many other contributors, for such a great game.
I never played blood bowl, but what intrigued me about the game, as a late 80s WD reader, was how it seemed to weave around the Warhammer world in its own way but ultimately had its own vibe going on. Really interesting how Jervis and Marc talk about this in the video. Love these video interviews- nice one Filmdeg, thank you.
I would have picked up blood bowl with or without the 2016 edition dropping. Jervis Johnson is an icon and frankly i cannot belive how humble he is being. He set up the NAF to continue the game, that insane.
Filmdeg, these interviews are sensational please keep up the good work xx
Jervis Johnson signed my 1st edition copy of Blood Bowl when he visited the Baltimore MD Battle Bunker. My friend and I were playing the 10mm Battle of Five Armies set. Jervis enscribed my copy of Blood Bowl with "Keep Rolling 6's! Jervis Johnson". And I did roll 6's...I failed all of my command rolls for the rest of the evening 😅😅😅
I picked up Rogue Trader when it was first released, and was fascinated with it, but I had no space to set up a game, or anyone to play against, as no one else was interested, at the time.
I picked up the second edition of Blood Bowl on release, and was hooked. I now have every edition of the game, except for the most recent, and a full complement of teams, and Star Players (kit-bashed, when necessary) from the Living Rulebook edition, which was peak Blood Bowl for me. I intend to keep them forever, and they have survived many game and miniature culls over the years, simply due to the many fond memories, and friendships forged, from this game. I have no children of my own to bequeath them to, but have nieces and nephews who may be in for a surprise, one day… :)
Blood Bowl was my gateway game into the Warhammer hobby, so, I guess, both thank you, and damn you, Jervis, Mark, et al… 😈
Honestly, GW dropping the game was the best thing that could have happened to it. The Blood Bowl community not only kept the game alive, but helped it grow, to the point, unfortunately, where GW realised they could squeeze some more money out of it, and decided to pick it up again. All I can say is thank Nuffle for One Page Rules - the only reason I can continue to afford to wargame to this day. I was out of wargaming for decades, due to the prices, by OPR has been my saviour, and has reignited this old fart’s love of the hobby.
Oh, and Jervis, while it is not your game, I feel Blood Bowl will always be your baby. 😊
Cheers,
I was one of the original group who helped create the NAF so many years ago. It's so cool that it's still going strong today thanks to the awesome Blood Bowl community!
Damn you know its a good day when Filmdeg posts
Nuffle giveth, nuffle taketh away.
Just finished painting my Ork team this morning for next season in a league in a small city in south germany, with about 40 players.
Thank you both so much for creating the best game!
What I liked about Blood Bowl is you could lose, really badly, and still have a good afternoon.
You mean like, right?
Blood Bowl is such and amazing game! I loved it as a 10 and 11 year old in the 90s in the UK, and rediscovered it living in the US Midwest in my 40s. I’ve barely played anything else the last couple of years! Thanks so much for organizing and posting this conversation. Your channel, and Jordan Sorcery, have given me a wonderful new perspective on the games I loved as a kid, and rediscovered 20-30 years later. Keep up the good work!
Great channel, and this is the best game ever created. My brother and I have been playing it since its creation and currently am playing with 20 active teams. I even write my own yearly journals now. Thank you!!!
These interviews are gold. Great work!
Ive never seen Marc in the wild! RPG legend!!
Great interview with him by Jordan Sorcery ua-cam.com/video/Q_avIthyFHg/v-deo.htmlsi=tfS6Rf53lIbBxg6-
I got into this game a couple years ago and it has given me so much joy. So cool to hear the history!
The best game.
For my GSCE Technology project I made a stadium for my polystyrene pitch. Well, I tried to!
It's a testaments to the longevity of the rules that I didn't play Blood Bowl for over 25 years once I left school, picked it up again a couple of years ago and was still good to go!
Marc is a hobby hero to me. I always looked for his name on things like Fighting Fantasy and GW games.
Great stuff, as expected. Thanks again!
GW was right to fear Bloodbowl stopping customers buying minatures. I only have 18 teams.
Love the story of the game being handed over to the community. Beautiful.
Excellent stuff as per usual.
I got into Blood Bowl when 2nd edition came out. I still love how much character that range of minis has - who knows maybe I'll actually finish painting them all some day.
When I joined as a shop worker they were still stocking 3rd edition. The manager was asked by a customer to demonstrate the game, which he did. Manger sold the game and a bunch of minis… however, he got a formal reprimand as a company store spy had spotted him and it had been forbidden to promote by head office… he was very (understandably) paranoid after that incident.
They've been instrumental in creating an amazing sports fantasy game. I had a thrilling BB2020 rules game in Spain a couple of years ago with my Elfheim Eagles and those dastardly Human team that did a last minute long throw win.
I had the cut out skaven team from White Dwarf for first edition Bloodbowl
Wish games workshop won't bring back that old school mentality About fun gaming and community, thanks for all your work
BB is my favourite game by far. This was interesting, but would love more of a deep dive on the process of creating the 3rd edition rules that form the basis of the game to this day. Also, does anyone know what the 4th edition changes were that Jervis rowed back on - alluded to in the last 10 minutes of this video?
Great little game with so much passion, and punning, behind it. I know that's what appealed to me back in the day. I even remember cobbling together some Warhammer golf rules at some point for the same sort of reason - turn based, opportunity for violence, etc.
Great video, i would have been interested to hear their thoughts on Blitz Bowl
Marc Gasgoigne ! I met him at Fighting Fantasy Fest! Great guy.
Does he still work in publishing at the moment? If so which company? ty
Now I've heard everything! An englishman uttering the word "soccer". This Marc guy is...suss. ;)
Great interview, never tire of hearing these stories.
I don't know where so many people (Americans and Brits alike) got the idea that soccer is an Americanism, but it isn't, at least not originally. Historically it was a very commonly used slang term for association football in the UK.
@@AndorianBlues I think it's one of the weird products of the Internet, social media, and getting to talk to Americans more often than we ever had before. Once we heard them refer to "football" and "soccer" as being different things, English people near-unanimously decided that "football" was the only acceptable term and "soccer" marked you as an outsider!
@@AndorianBlues Interesting, didn't know that. Thanks!
@@Kim_Jong-un1356 It's just short for 'asSOCiation'.
Association Football and Rugby Football, Soccer and Rugger for short
In the 80s when Blood Bowl came out it was still pretty common for middle class people (and Marc sounds quite middle class) in England to call football soccer.
To me the Blood Bowl Universe is an alternative Warhammer Universe with Blood Bowl instead of War.
I always stop bloodbowl.Wasn't the war hammer?Universe, birth and that's where space Marines went to the games to relax.But I, but I haven't read much into the lore.I'm a nerd but i'm not a super nerd
I never found 1st edition, but I have been playing BB since 2nd edition with the astrogranite board. Which I still have BTW.
In case anybody was wondering which is my favorite team, I have fully painted 2nd edition, 3rd edition and BB16 Skaven teams.
The Turnover Rule was a game changer (no pun intended)
Thank you!
The bloodbowl top trumps were brilliant, if just for the funny names
Who came up with BB 7s as that is my favourite version?
How old is Marc? Did he join GW as a toddler or something!
Blood Bowl is the best game that Games Workshop makes by far.
Why was Marc sacked as editor of WD after a brief stint?
Anybody?
To anybody interested, and ut appears not, Marc allowed(and I assume actualaly chose) an offensive letter to be published in the letters section of WD..
It involved the word "spastics"..
When he alludes to being "underprepared" in the interview, I believe this event is what he is referring to. He was sacked shortly afterwards.
Goodbye Marc, you're not really a nice person, are you.
Marc has aged really well, he looks about 30!
I never realised Jervis Johnson and Marc Gasgoigne were responsible for so many of the punny miniature names!
"That was big of you" about Jervis admitting his mistakes on 4th edition - yes, quite. Would that many modern day hobbyists took themselves a little less seriously and acted like grown men in the original convivial spirit of wargaming and roleplaying.
I want to dig out my BB and Fanatic mags now.
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Always thought this should have been a computer game.
More minis should carry coke cans!
For a second, i thought Jervis was saying he was playing actual American football not a boardgame version of it. Football as a sport is very interesting but the actual violence can be concerning. Pretty much every game behind the elementary school level results in someone getting injured.
Very interesting.
Never really found Bloodbowl all that funny as American Football is a parody sport in itself