League play is encouraged, with players earning 'star player points' for successful actions, which can lead to advances after the game at certain levels. The troops decided to give it a try, and soon they developed their own version of Nuffle's Amorican Football. However, the rules tended to bog the game down in a series of mid-pitch fights and the 1994 re-release of the game reinvented the rules to produce a more free-flowing game, as well as starting to take the game in a different, lighter tonal direction: in an alternate Warhammer world, warring armies found that their battlefield hid an ancient temple to the god Nuffle, whose worshippers in the land of Amorica practiced a brutal but highly entertaining combat ritual called Football. In its initial inception, the game engine was closely based on that for Warhammer Fantasy Battle, and the background was consistent with the established Warhammer setting. and roll dice to decide the outcome of passes, tackles, and dodges. Players field teams of Humans, Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, etc. It is a game of 'Fantasy Football', loosely based on the rules of American Football, with some elements of rugby. Blood Bowl is a fantasy boardgame made by Games Workshop, creators of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000.
