Skills, Traits and re-rolls

[McDeth]

i'm glad that during my Wilderness years i never had to play the dreaded OSPA.

[GalakStarscraper]

I have a little bit of BB history trivia that you might find interesting:

How many of you guys realize that at one point OSPA was supposed to be OSPT.

that Turn instead of Action.

See Jervis was sick and tired of the TR 300 type teams that were wreaking long term leagues .... his original fix to this was that your ENTIRE team could use one skill each turn. So if you threw a block and need to use the Block skill to knock down your opponent and stay on your feet, then after that during that turn, no other player could use Pass, Catch, Dodge, Block, etc, etc, etc.

Andy Hall for the sake of BB players everywhere diving tackled Jervis to the ground and convinced him that PERHAPS this was a bit of overkill. Thus OSPA was born ... the rule was never tested by GW ... it went straight into BB Mag #1 as a "great" idea.

I'm not joking about the above ... its a true story (other than that bit about the diving tackle ... poetic license on that one) ... anyway the one good thing that came out of BB Mag #1 and OSPA was a complete uprising by the BB community. See Jervis thought that BB had about the same following as most of the other Fanatic supported games ... turns out that was a little incorrect.

Unless its changed ... BB Mag #1 was the highest selling rules supplement every produced by GW ... so a LOT of coaches snagged a copy of it ... read the rules and immediately wrote or emailed in and screamed "WHAT DID YOU DO?????!!!!!" .... at the end of the day, Jervis humbley stated in an Fanatic newsletter that the rule changes in BB Mag #1 were a bad decision ... this led him to form the BBRC in an effort to assist him in forming the rules for Blood Bowl.

The result of this is an annual rules review and the BB2k1 rule set .... so something good did come of OSPA ... it just had to inflict several casualites on BB leagues across the world to do so.

Galak

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[Deathwing]

Fascinating stuff!
I agree, OSPA provoked such an amount of dialogue/discussion/arguement/outrage that it worked out better for the long term future of BB than had it never been invented.
It's a funny old world, and now the other Specialist games players are set to benefit from the whole storm of controversy, by following the annual review principle.
It's a funny old world!

[Trambi]

Yes instead of doing long term rules, GW have made a "small" change in the game.