Author Topic: Rollerball  (Read 4953 times)

Offline joshuaslater

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Rollerball
« on: March 02, 2007, 10:24:18 AM »
I was just watching this classic last night when I started wondering if anyone made a "Bloodbowl on skates" miniatures game.  If not, someone really needs to do this.
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Re: Rollerball
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2007, 10:28:08 AM »
http://forum54.oli.us/index.php?topic=1011.0

there is also RazorBall being done by shadowforge (I think) they been working on it for some time . Who knows if it ever gets done but they did do a Rollar ring for it. theirs an image of it floating on the net.
http://www.francebloodbowl.com/forum.php?Id=2068072  scroll down you see pics of the arena

bit of triva:
The stunt men working on the film made real rules for the game.
So when they were training for the movie they were  playing Rollarball.
http://home.nc.rr.com/jape77/the_rules_of_rollerball.html

The history of it makes for a neat read
http://home.nc.rr.com/jape77/evolution_of_rollerball.html
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Re: Rollerball
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2007, 10:29:02 AM »
Someone did, kinda. i saw a demo at a con once, being shown to Thom. Looked pretty good. IIRC, it was set in the future, and tou raced around a track. You had a team of hackers who could do things like change the gravity under opponents, or drop things onto the track like trash bins, etc. was fast paced, could battle (to a point) with opponents, etc. If i find anything on it, i'll let you know.

edit:
http://www.crystalspider.com/news.html

thats a photo of the arena, vapors gambit was the name of the game.

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Re: Rollerball
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2007, 12:55:10 PM »
Thanks fellas.  This should give me ample reading on Monday to chase away the blues.  Cheers.
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Re: Rollerball
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2007, 06:04:55 PM »
I have the rules from the guy who developed them and am trying to make them compatible with Warzone. I also sent them to at least one person on the East Coast. If you can't get them PM and I'll shoot them to you
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