Bier Bowl at Heldenhofen

Norse

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What is Bier Bowl?

Bier Bowl is a fast, simple game of five-a-side fantasy football played on the pitches and streets of Heldenhofen. It is known as Strasse Bowl when played in the streets. It is a complete game on only two sides of A4, including league rules and a random team name generator. It is Creative Commons licensed.

The full rules for Bier Bowl can be found here:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/cyfz8s3se ... r_Bowl.pdf

A printable pitch can be found here:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0wdlmkr1m ... _Board.pdf

(you will need to print this out twice and stick the two halves together)

How do I play?

First of all you will need a team of 5 guys. It doesn't really matter what they are as long as you and your opponent can easily tell what type of player each of them are. You will also need a d4, a d6 and a d8. I'll try and make sure there are a few sets about the place.

There are 3 types of player.

Ordinary Guys are just that. Your average player with no particular specialty.
Fast Guys are not very strong but are quick on their feet and good at passing the ball.
Tough Guys are slow and terrible at passing, but are very tough and good at beating up the other side.

One easy way to differentiate the different types of player is to use different races. For example, my own team The Old Griffin Gladiators consists of two halflings (Fast Guys), one human (Ordinary Guy) and two dwarves (Tough Guys).

You can have any mix of players you want, even a team of all Fast Guys or all Tough Guys.

You also need a pitch to play on. The official rules state a pitch of 7 squares by 13 squares. The Heldenhofen Stadium is larger than that however, and games played in the streets have no real defined pitch. The end row of each short side is an End Zone belonging to a player.

If you want to play a game but the Stadium is currently occupied, find an area of squares on the Heldenhofen board and play Strasse Bowl. You simply need to agree where the end zones are for each player. There is no reason for the end zones to be lined up or anything, they could be anywhere. It's a good idea for them to be about the same size as each other though. If the ball ends up hitting a building, count it as having left the pitch and bounce it back in as normal.

Find another player to play with and play a game according to the rules linked to above. The winner of the game score's points equal to the difference in the final scores. So if you win 3-1 for example you would score 2 points. Points scored in Strasse Bowl still count! There will be a sheet by the Heldenhofen board for people to record their points on. The player with the most points by the time I gather them in on Sunday morning will win a prize!

I will be about all weekend to answer rule queries or to play games with. I won't be recording my scores of course, but games against me can still score you points.

What About Snorkleball?

Snorkleball is just Bier Bowl played by Snorclings. It is used to keep Heldenhofen's Snorcling population under control. If we have enough snorcling teams to run a separate event we will, but otherwise they can compete with other Bier Bowl teams.
 

Fimm McCool

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Regular cities are infested with rats, and Heldenhofen is no exception. However Heldenhofen is also uniquely plagued with another type of vermin; tiny green imps called snorcs. These diminutive creatures probably arrived in the cargo hold of some ship and due to their habit of breeding uncontrollably the city was overrun in weeks. So intrigued are they by human affairs that it reached a point where there was hardly a person in Heldenhofen who was not followed at all times by half a dozen snorcs pointing and gabbling to one another in extreme excitement. It was almost the end for the city which would surely have drowned under a green tide were it not for a fortuitous discovery. Bier Bowl (a 5-a-side ball game resembling American Football) is a popular sport in Heldenhofen and a league used to be played on an annual basis in the central park with each inn and tavern in the city fielding a team. The first time the snorcs witnessed this the citizens were amazed to discover that their attention was drawn absolutely to the game. The gibbering horde fell completely silent, their eyes wide in rapt attention. The mayor was quick to spot the potential solution to their problem and commanded that a section of residential district be levelled at once for the construction of a Bier Bowl stadium. Work was rushed through in an effort to take advantage of the imps’ interest and within two months the arena, ‘Heldenhofen Castle’, was finished. As soon as the pitch was laid the snorcs swarmed the building and they have been living there ever since, playing continuous games of their own version of Bier Bowl which the citizens call Snorckleball. They even allow the arena to be used for the annual Bier Bowl league games and an assortment of other events throughout the year, but the events must be kept interesting for if the snorcs ever grow bored they will just resume occupation of the pitch and begin a new game of snorckleball. Fortunately snorcs and humans have a similar taste in entertainments and if an event is dull enough to bore snorcs then any human watchers would almost certainly be glad of a spot of snorckleball to liven it up. The only residents less than happy about the development (apart from those whose homes were demolished for the stadium to be built) are the Halfling neighbours. Snorckleball is a rowdy affair and goes on day and night, a constant throbbing, whooping which disturbs their repose. Since the advent of Snorckleball the snorc population has remained at a consistent level since their reproductive urge has taken second place to their love of sport and the games themselves are invariably fatal for at least a handful of the players.

It would be a lie, however, to say that nowhere in the city is troubled by snorcs. A vital accompaniment to a game of snorckleball is a good beer, and the finest in Heldenhofen are those served by the (in)famous Green Griffin. Hidden deep below the streets a cavern network links Heldenhoden Castle with the cellars of that notorious public house. Through these dark caves travel raiding parties of snorcs, unseen and unnoticed. They make their beer runs across the undercity dodging the subterranean perils and trying to elude the guards posted by the kegs. The landlord of the Griffin has not yet discovered the small, hidden entrance to the caves and rather suspects that one of the rival inns is behind the thefts of his fine guest ales. In order to cover the distance in speed the snorcs have developed a means of transport consisting of a dense, rubbery fungus which they inflate and into which they carve grotesque visages. They ride the fungus like space hoppers, bouncing through the caves, over chasms and off walls.
 

Harry

Moderator
The BierBowl / SnorkleBall pitch is taking shape:

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