MeepleMates notes for Blood Bowl (Second Edition)

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Blood Bowl (Second Edition) is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
Best with 2 player according to player poll data.
BoardGameGeek average rating 6.87 and BGG rank #3245.
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Blood Bowl is a game of Fantasy Football. The basic game features a match between a human team and an orc team. Ostensibly the teams are playing football. In fact each team takes turns moving, blocking and advancing the football down the field. The game comes with plastic miniatures. This is the Second Edition Game in the Blood Bowl Series!

Mechanics

Variable Player PowersDice RollingGrid Movement

Best with how many players

Not rec.

Best

Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

No necessary in-game text(2 of 3 votes)

Sub-rankings

Thematic Rank#634

External data

Wikidata enrichment: 5 links · 3 facts · latest game data 06/20/2026.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 07/14/2026.

Facts

Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Games Workshop
Designer: Jervis Johnson

Owned by

Local copies

Blood Bowl (Second Edition)