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2007-08-03 03:49:50
32 votes, rating 4.6
32 votes, rating 4.6
Dice are Everything!
This is a forum entry I wrote for the SWL in a time of player strife and an ongoing frustration emanating from the dice results this game offers up. The following is my response, pledge and philosophy all in one ;)
We have lost a player. Once again the catalyst seems to be the very epitome of what drives our great game; Dice. Once again the whipping boy of “luck” has come under fire and been found wanting. This is not a discussion of what luck is, what it should or could be, or even a defense. Luck is simply what it is…and what it is, when it comes to Blood Bowl, is EVERYTHING!
I can’t tell you how many internal tears of frustration I have shed when the little cubes of fate have not shown me the pips thru the path I so tactically planned. By the same token I can’t tell you how many times my internal joy meter has gone off the chart as the unlikeliest of rolled bones have rewarded the most retarded of choices! I do know this though…Blood Bowl IS dice. It is ONLY dice. It is NOTHING BUT DICE!!!
I can’t make that any clearer. If you fear them than get the hell out! If you can’t stare a GFI on turn 16 in the eye and pick up the rock one more time than get the hell out! If you shiver down deep every time you have to gather the blocks in your palms than GET THE HELL OUT!
The ONLY tip that EVERY Blood Bowl player ever need remember is “Make the other guy roll more dice.” It is, and has always been, that simple. It is not a recipe for constant success…but the mathematical amongst you know what I am talking about. An action can't fail if you don’t roll the dice! So we make the opponent roll. It is why we put lineman into harms way with a TZ on a player. It is why we bust a gut to get as many players as we can around a dropped ball. It is why we spread the defense.
Than we do what we can to maximize OUR chances when WE roll! It is why we move up assists. It is why we take Guard. It is why we get as many players as we can around a prone player EVEN when a DP is about to go to work. It is why we GFI to make a Short Pass into a Quick one. It is why we take the Kick skill. It is why we ALWAYS take the Block skill!
This game IS dice. Bad rolls cause trouble and good rolls win games. It is as it as ever been and will always be. So don’t come whinnying to me when you rolled double skulls on your 1st block…we all have! Don’t be getting out a dice rape kit just because the 12th roll of your turn was a 2. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that if only the dice had gone different than you would have won because that way lies madness! I will tell you one thing though; they WON’T even have a CHANCE to be different if you are too chicken shit to even pick them up again!
This is a GAME! The FUN comes from PLAYING not from WINNING! The FUN is the person opposite you and all the crazy things that are about to happen when you ROLL THE DICE!
So go ahead and quit if you can’t find the fun. If the only thing you can accept in this game is the 3+ then this isn’t the game for you. If the skull makes you cry than this is not the game for you. If you think that games are only LOST and never WON by your opponent than this game is NOT FOR YOU!
I am not suggesting for a moment that you can’t be annoyed that the pips didn’t front for you. But you know what I do after I roll double skulls? I say “F**K!”… than on my next turn I stand my guy up and put him in a Tackle Zone. I scramble back in defense. I will do everything on my turn to ensure that YOU have to roll again.
And you know what I do when you roll the HOT dice? I say “F**K!”…and than I get numbers behind the ball, I run pressure into the backfield, I dodge thru zones to get one more modifier into place. I make you roll.
Then you know what I do???
I reach over and…ROLL THE DICE!
THAT is what I do! Cause I am not afraid to fail…I am not afraid to roll the 2d against, I am not afraid to throw the Long Pass, I am not afraid to GFI twice to score…I AM NOT AFRAID of a pair of cubes and what they might say about the game! The dice do not define me…they only define the game…and the game is FUN!
Those of you that can’t handle it can just
LUCK OFF!
We have lost a player. Once again the catalyst seems to be the very epitome of what drives our great game; Dice. Once again the whipping boy of “luck” has come under fire and been found wanting. This is not a discussion of what luck is, what it should or could be, or even a defense. Luck is simply what it is…and what it is, when it comes to Blood Bowl, is EVERYTHING!
I can’t tell you how many internal tears of frustration I have shed when the little cubes of fate have not shown me the pips thru the path I so tactically planned. By the same token I can’t tell you how many times my internal joy meter has gone off the chart as the unlikeliest of rolled bones have rewarded the most retarded of choices! I do know this though…Blood Bowl IS dice. It is ONLY dice. It is NOTHING BUT DICE!!!
I can’t make that any clearer. If you fear them than get the hell out! If you can’t stare a GFI on turn 16 in the eye and pick up the rock one more time than get the hell out! If you shiver down deep every time you have to gather the blocks in your palms than GET THE HELL OUT!
The ONLY tip that EVERY Blood Bowl player ever need remember is “Make the other guy roll more dice.” It is, and has always been, that simple. It is not a recipe for constant success…but the mathematical amongst you know what I am talking about. An action can't fail if you don’t roll the dice! So we make the opponent roll. It is why we put lineman into harms way with a TZ on a player. It is why we bust a gut to get as many players as we can around a dropped ball. It is why we spread the defense.
Than we do what we can to maximize OUR chances when WE roll! It is why we move up assists. It is why we take Guard. It is why we get as many players as we can around a prone player EVEN when a DP is about to go to work. It is why we GFI to make a Short Pass into a Quick one. It is why we take the Kick skill. It is why we ALWAYS take the Block skill!
This game IS dice. Bad rolls cause trouble and good rolls win games. It is as it as ever been and will always be. So don’t come whinnying to me when you rolled double skulls on your 1st block…we all have! Don’t be getting out a dice rape kit just because the 12th roll of your turn was a 2. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that if only the dice had gone different than you would have won because that way lies madness! I will tell you one thing though; they WON’T even have a CHANCE to be different if you are too chicken shit to even pick them up again!
This is a GAME! The FUN comes from PLAYING not from WINNING! The FUN is the person opposite you and all the crazy things that are about to happen when you ROLL THE DICE!
So go ahead and quit if you can’t find the fun. If the only thing you can accept in this game is the 3+ then this isn’t the game for you. If the skull makes you cry than this is not the game for you. If you think that games are only LOST and never WON by your opponent than this game is NOT FOR YOU!
I am not suggesting for a moment that you can’t be annoyed that the pips didn’t front for you. But you know what I do after I roll double skulls? I say “F**K!”… than on my next turn I stand my guy up and put him in a Tackle Zone. I scramble back in defense. I will do everything on my turn to ensure that YOU have to roll again.
And you know what I do when you roll the HOT dice? I say “F**K!”…and than I get numbers behind the ball, I run pressure into the backfield, I dodge thru zones to get one more modifier into place. I make you roll.
Then you know what I do???
I reach over and…ROLL THE DICE!
THAT is what I do! Cause I am not afraid to fail…I am not afraid to roll the 2d against, I am not afraid to throw the Long Pass, I am not afraid to GFI twice to score…I AM NOT AFRAID of a pair of cubes and what they might say about the game! The dice do not define me…they only define the game…and the game is FUN!
Those of you that can’t handle it can just
LUCK OFF!
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