Welcome to Blood Bowl Sevens, the game of
Fantasy Football in your lunchtime. Inspired
by the popular 40K in 40 minutes, Blood Bowl
Sevens was created so staff at Games
Workshop head office could enjoy a game of
Blood Bowl in their hour lunch break. For
many staff, family and other social
commitments means that the only time they
get to play games is during their lunch break.
Traditionally, this has meant playing one half
of Blood Bowl in one lunch break and the
other in another. However, what usually
happens is you run out of time and end up
rushing the last couple of turns or you get
busy the following day and the second half
could take up to a week to be played. Not very
suitable for league commissioners trying to
run an office league!
So, the idea was to create a version of Blood
Bowl that could be played within an hour and
that would allow league commissioners to
quite simply put together a Blood Bowl league.
The easiest way I could envisage making this
possible was to do two things – to reduce the
number of players taking part in a match and
to also reduce the size of the pitch. Here I was
inspired again, by ‘Hong Kong’ Sevens – a
seven aside rugby tournament.
With fewer players and a smaller pitch early
play testing proved successful. However, the
game still didn’t feel quiet right. It needed
something to tie everything together. What I hit
on next was to make all the difference. I
decided to make Blood Bowl Sevens an
amateur form of Blood Bowl. This would give
me greater ability to make the changes I
needed to make the game flow appropriately
and, all importantly, be able to be played in a
single lunchtime. So without further ado I
present… Blood Bowl Sevens.