Push into the crowd

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 1:01 am

that might be the way you play it but officailly they go out of bounds

Shadow_Dragon · Post by **Shadow_Dragon** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 1:06 am

Just giving the man a logical alternative!

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 1:09 am

Didn't sound logical to me. Alternative, yes. Logical, no.

Shadow_Dragon · Post by **Shadow_Dragon** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 1:10 am

You don't think it's logical that the players would have a preference to stay on the pitch and that there might be some minor form of barrier between the pitch and the riot happy crowd?

How so?

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 1:26 am

Sure, the player's preference is going to be to stay on the pitch. Barrier or not, another player in the way of the only avaliable square is going to prevent him from staying on that pitch. I don't know what kind of walls you're envisioning but I'm guessing that strong hit just put him over what little barricade there is. This isn't the Colliseum in Rome, the stadiums are made so that the occasional player makes it into the crowd. The fans like it that way.

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 1:35 am

the players preference is not to be blocked at all if your going logic ;]

Shadow_Dragon · Post by **Shadow_Dragon** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 1:41 am

snotsngrots wrote:I don't know what kind of walls you're envisioning but I'm guessing that strong hit just put him over what little barricade there is. This isn't the Colliseum in Rome, the stadiums are made so that the occasional player makes it into the crowd. The fans like it that way.

Umm! Very enthusiastic exageration there! I'm jsut assuming the actual barrier is something more than a painted line! And i don't know if you've been to any sports stadium of any description but there is usaully something there, i see it as more likely a player would bounce off said barrier and fall into the other player rather than soomersault over it or piledrive through it!

Also if the result is merely pushback it wouldn't be strong enough to send them through anything and if it was push down their angle would be, ofcourse, downwards thus again i say a barrier would easily deflect any passing bodies unless direct concentration was asserted! I'm nto saying this is official i'm just saying it's a logical assumption and i'm not sure why you want to disagree so wholeheartedly!

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 1:44 am

what like a basketball court? ;]

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 1:55 am

It's just the way I think about it to explain the game mechanic the way it's written. You're adding all kinds of real world ideals into it to explain why it shouldn't be so. I can't stand it when people try and bring real life in to try and explain why something's stupid or shouldn't be how it is. That's just plain silly to me. I could do the same thing to show that Apothecaries couldn't possibly do what they do. I'm not going to do that because it'd be pointless. I don't care what's actually there. When you're playing against experienced coaches there aren't that many players going into the crowd. Do you know why? I'd be willing to bet that, when they weren't so experienced, they went crowd surfing a few times. Making it harder to put a player into the crowd doesn't need to happen, not that it's even on the plate.

Malkorax · Post by **Malkorax** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 7:20 pm

Shadow_Dragon wrote:You don't think it's logical that the players would have a preference to stay on the pitch and that there might be some minor form of barrier between the pitch and the riot happy crowd?

Whatever they prefer, they have been blocked or pushed by a Bloodbowl player. They are not in control of their actions, they are off balance and flying backward. A pushback does not mean the guy walks backward it means he was knocked back!

On another topic: We play that only skills that cause a re-roll may be called after the dice are rolled. If they just modify (+1 etc) you have to call it before. That seems more fair.

wesleytj · Post by **wesleytj** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 11:35 pm

yep out of bounds he goes. those house rules sound like they were written by halfling coaches.

Post by **DoubleSkulls** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 8:30 am

wesleytj wrote:those house rules sound like they were written by halfling coaches.

Or Dwarves, or Dark Elves, or Norse.

Shadow_Dragon · Post by **Shadow_Dragon** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 10:52 pm

SIGH

SO i'm a halfing then!