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3rd and 4th edition???
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 11:35 pm
by Englishchap88
What is the diffrence between 3rd edition boxed set and 4th's?
Thanks in advance
Matthew
AKA Pip
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 11:40 pm
by wesleytj
sounds like a real easy q right? ok hold on to your seat
the rules in the box set are in fact 3rd edition. 4th edition was in existence for a few months but now no longer exists because the vast majority of ppl hated it (self included)
now we play LRB Blood Bowl which stands for "Living Rule Book". It's called that because the rulebook is available free online, and is updated by a body known as the "BBRC"-Blood Bowl Rules Committee...a group of BB coaches like you and me who play the game, see what's wrong with it (if anything) and make appropriate adjustments. Many of them are on this message board.
the LRB is available on GW's website as a free pdf download. give it a read, it's (in most respects) the best edition of blood bowl ever.
hope that cleared things up...don't call it 4th ed tho, or people will run for cover.
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 11:44 pm
by Darkson
4th edition was never in a box set, it was just a set of rules printed in BloodBowl Mag #1 (BBMag#1), and updated in BBMag #2. This set does not exist, never existed, and any attempt to say it did will mean GW sending the lawyers round
If you mean between the current version (known as LRB 2.0) and the 3rd ed, it was rules changes for skills and actions, post and pre-games. I think the biggest change was the scrapping onf the cards from Deathzone.
If you haven't got it, you can download the LRB from
http://www.specialist-games.com/bloodbowl/resources.htm
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 11:55 pm
by Englishchap88
Thanks.
As i need the pitch ect. Should i buy the 3rd or revised or does it not matter?
Thanks
Pip
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 12:04 am
by Colin
The box set is exactly the same as the 3ed one except with the new BB hanbook. So if you download the LRB, you could buy a cheap 3ed set off ebay and would be ok.
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 12:06 am
by Xtreme
The newest boxed set includes a rulebook that has LRB (1.3?) so you will have the most current rules. Or if you get the set with the 3rd editon rules you can just download the new one for free and have the same thing.
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 12:13 am
by Colin
I believe that's exactly what I had said.
Just adding another point, the LRB is the most up to date, but the BB handbook in the latest box game isn't the same, so you would have to buy a BB 2003 Annual as well to be up to date completely (if you buy a new box set).