Playing Dice with the Universe

Summary:   Dealing with Rubinifa's loose ends. Our Heroes Madoc (David) - Human failed Friar  now Pit Fighter Zena (Oliver) - Human Marine Tayy Whitethorn (Michael) - Halflling Harbour Master Rubinifer (Rob) - Human Outlaw Chief Chapter 93 ~ A mountain encounter Asking around town we found out the bounty hunters looking for Sarah were staying at the Black Eagle and had increase the reward to 200 crowns!  Rubinifer was eager to deal with them but that meant finding them.  Instead we decided to return to the mountains where we had spotted the Pegasus to look for the missing children. As we left town we saw some flyers about a boat race from Sonnefurt to Wusterburg having in a weeks time.  Crews of four were able to complete to win a parcel of land far away in the north of the empire. travelling through the Winter's Teeth pass were not only the usual merchants but several men heading the Sonnefurt to try and win the competition.  Finando's group had two rowe...

Blood Bowl Inducement Review As most of the inducement options from Death Zone are allowed in LBBL games I thought it was worthwhile providing a summary of what is available.  I have also added a quick colour code to say if I think the options are Good , Bad or Situationally useful.  Remember as per the League handbook you must bring along an official copy of the relevant rulebook for any Inducement you are using.  This guide is intended to be used to help you decided if you want to buy a copy of Death Zone not as a replacement for it.  Remember folks we get an extra 5% off at Geek Retreat on League night! Death Zone offers (In)Famous Coaching Staff, new Wizards, Named Referees and a small number of other cheap options for using up petty cash.   0-2 (In)famous Coaching Staff Galandril Silverwater 40,000 gp Elven Kingdoms Extra Cheerleaders and a minimal chance of extra Team Re-rolls if that kick off event happens.  I wil...

  Summary:   Who has been kidnapping the children? Our Heroes Madoc (David) - Human failed Friar  and Pit Fighter Hayley (Elliot) - Human Duelist Tayy Whitethorn (Michael) - Halflling Rivermaster Flendac (Kris) - Human Master Assassin Chapter 92 ~ A glowing hoof With the administration for the docks sorted Tayy has some free time to join his chums in the pub and hear the tails of the Pegasus.  Madoc on the other hand had been spending the last few evenings training in a new career as his god had found his actions so far unworthy.  He had received a message that he needed to help one enemy defeat a more powerful foe and had decided martial training was the best route to achieve this.  Flendac gave him his spare magical sword meaning Madoc now had two of the most powerful weapons we had recovered.  He also borrowed cash from the others to get the magical boots that were still in stock at Rickard's shop. Heading into the pass we went looking for the Pea...

  Summary:   Who has been kidnapping the children? Our Heroes Madoc (David) - Human Friar of Manann [ Poseidon ] Hayley (Elliot) - Human Duelist Kormac (Michael) - Elven Sailor Zena (Oliver) -  Insane  Human Artillerist Rubinifer (Rob) - Human Outlaw Chief Flendac (Kris) - Human Master Assassin Chapter 90 ~ A new mission and some old foes Sitting in the pub musing over only making a single crown for fighting a lich the group were approached by a woman.  She was Petra Druge, whom Flendac had a crush on, and it seemed that local children were going missing and she asked for our help in locating them. There was also another group of bounty hunters in town looking for Rubinifer's girlfriend Sarah (it seems the Teller family were not giving up easily on killing her).  We fed them a couple of tales about Orcs killing her or possibly having moved on south.  They left to follow up on possible leads. Asking around about the children we managed to get the brew...

Summary:   What could be eating the cows? Our Heroes Madoc (David) - Human Friar of Manann [ Poseidon ] Hayley (Elliot) - Human Duelist Kormac (Michael) - Elven Sailor Zena (Oliver) - Insane Human Artillerist Rubinifer (Rob) - Human Outlaw Chief Chapter 89 ~ If you should go down to the farm tonight... Cpt Jameson returned to the Black Eagle with the offer of a new recruit for Morgan's Men.  An Elven sailor by the name of Kormac who, after fifty years of sailing the rivers of the Empire was looking to make a bit more coin hanging out with this famous mercenary company. It seemed the blow to Zena's head the previous day had scrambled her wits as she now thought she was in charge and started ordering people around and renamed the company the Zany Legends.  We now had two mercenary companies; although it was somewhat unclear who was in which band. The barkeep asked Hayley if she would help is sister.  It seemed some wild animal was attacking her cows.  The pay ...

Summary:  Loose ends cause a bother . Our Heroes Madoc (David) - Human Friar of Manann [ Poseidon ] Flendac (Kris) - Human Master Assassin Tayy Whitethorn (Michael) - Halfling Trainee Assassin  Zena (Oliver) - Human Artillerist Chapter 88 ~ Anyone remember the Skaven? Having sailed back home on Cpt Jameson barge we worked on sorting out Silavan's will.  Turned out are timing was perfect as Michael Stich was down from Nuln to do the same!  Flendac managed to convince him that he was part of the secret slaanesh cult and got the deeds to the docks without a fight. After that we went to see Dagmar to let her know Asterellion had put a bounty on her head.  We flatly refused to help her kill the War-dancers but when she offered us 5000 crowns to deal with the Skaven vermin we decided to give that a go. We knew there were too many for us to take them all out at once but thought we might be able to sneak around and deal with a few to reduce numbers.  Seeing a c...

Blood Bowl Redrafting  A quick guide for redrafting teams using TourPlay for League tracking When your team has been submitted to join the league you can see at the top of the screen a message saying the team is redrafting and all the players are greyed out with a warning triangle at the start. Your team value should show zero and your treasury be 1,300,000 gold.  If either of these are not the case then STOP and contact an admin before continuing with redrafting. When you select each player you are given the option of hiring them again.  You can see the cost to rehire, including agency fee, shown below the players value.  If you elect to Fire a player TourPlay will ask for confirmation but once you say yes that player is gone.  There is no way to bring them back! When you hire a player the system will roll to see if any Niggling Injuries are healed. Players cost an extra 20k to rehire for each previous season they have played.  If you rehire five players a...