Thanks Jeff. Enjoyed the change of pace. Re American Football in the UK: I remember William 'The Refrigerator' Perry doing a lot of appearances on British TV back in the '80s - probably because of Superbowl XX. It seemed, after that NFL became quite popular in the UK. The Superbowl is always televised along with many regular season games. We've even got a lot of longstanding teams from Aberdeen down to Bristol, and there's a British American Football Association. My closest local team are the Humber Warhawks, just down the road in Hull. LOL - I think my favourite team names are the Northern Nightmare (from Sunderland) and a youth team called the Yorkshire Academy Assassins (from Leeds). Re Deadball: I've got the whole library of this. Although it's the only tabletop baseball simulator I've played (so I can't compare it with others) I've really enjoyed it. It's very flexible and allows you to easily convert real player stats to play. 1900-1920 dead-ball era games are good, and I suspect are brilliant for full season play, but I've only played occasional games rather than being extremely organised with it, so the second edition has been brilliant in expanding the game into the modern era. Great fun to field fantasy team rosters picked from the 1970s to present day, matching up against each other. Deadball uses the full set of polyhedral dice. As you say, batters roll percentiles - it's roll low, but against a chart, so you get the full array of hits, sac-flies and productive outs. Pitchers' dice are similar to Savage Worlds (but using the d20 as well) - the better the pitcher, the higher their die type and their result is added to the batter. So an ace pitcher would roll a d20, but as their pitch count goes up, and fatigue kicks in, they'll drop to a D12, then d8 etc… There are extra mods according to the player, match-up and situation. You use other dice for fielding, getting errors and, really, all the plays that happen in a real baseball game; and using a regular scorecard to keep track of the game. I've only played solo, but reckon it would be fun with two players. I'd definitely recommend it.
Thanks Jeff.
Enjoyed the change of pace.
Re American Football in the UK: I remember William 'The Refrigerator' Perry doing a lot of appearances on British TV back in the '80s - probably because of Superbowl XX. It seemed, after that NFL became quite popular in the UK. The Superbowl is always televised along with many regular season games.
We've even got a lot of longstanding teams from Aberdeen down to Bristol, and there's a British American Football Association.
My closest local team are the Humber Warhawks, just down the road in Hull.
LOL - I think my favourite team names are the Northern Nightmare (from Sunderland) and a youth team called the Yorkshire Academy Assassins (from Leeds).
Re Deadball: I've got the whole library of this. Although it's the only tabletop baseball simulator I've played (so I can't compare it with others) I've really enjoyed it. It's very flexible and allows you to easily convert real player stats to play.
1900-1920 dead-ball era games are good, and I suspect are brilliant for full season play, but I've only played occasional games rather than being extremely organised with it, so the second edition has been brilliant in expanding the game into the modern era. Great fun to field fantasy team rosters picked from the 1970s to present day, matching up against each other.
Deadball uses the full set of polyhedral dice. As you say, batters roll percentiles - it's roll low, but against a chart, so you get the full array of hits, sac-flies and productive outs. Pitchers' dice are similar to Savage Worlds (but using the d20 as well) - the better the pitcher, the higher their die type and their result is added to the batter. So an ace pitcher would roll a d20, but as their pitch count goes up, and fatigue kicks in, they'll drop to a D12, then d8 etc… There are extra mods according to the player, match-up and situation.
You use other dice for fielding, getting errors and, really, all the plays that happen in a real baseball game; and using a regular scorecard to keep track of the game.
I've only played solo, but reckon it would be fun with two players. I'd definitely recommend it.