What’s more, Blood Bowl is designed on the assumption that all Leagues will have their own Commissioner who will act in the same manner as I did and has the same powers and responsibilities. But with this power went the responsibility of making sure the league was fun.
The point I’m making is, as the Commissioner of the Studio League, the buck stopped with me – I was the ultimate arbiter of the rules and my word was law. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t change the rules willy-nilly – you’ll soon lose all your coaches if you muck them about too much – but when something needed fixing I stepped in and fixed it.
Sometimes it turned out that my first answer was wrong (I know, I know, I found it hard to believe that I was fallible too), but when this happened I’d simply change my mind later on and go over to the new ruling from that point on. If the answer wasn’t there at all, then I just made up an answer on the spot. If a question came up I referred to the rules but if I found that the answer was unfair or just ‘felt wrong’, then I changed the rules without a qualm or second thought. As the Commissioner of the Studio League, I would enforce the rules I had written down as best I could and would modify and change them, as I felt fit. In effect, all of the Blood Bowl rules are my ‘house rules’ – they are not (contrary to popular belief) handed down to me on tablets of stone on a mountaintop. Basically, what you get in the Blood Bowl and Deathzone rules is my explanation of how I ran the Studio’s Blood Bowl League. This was partially because I’d answered the Q&A so long ago that I couldn’t remember which was which, but also because I don’t think of the answers that I give in that way. I have to admit that I found it very difficult to answer this question.
The email concerned a set of Q&A that I had answered, and the writer anted to know which of my answers were ‘official errata’ and which were ‘house rules’ that I’d made up on the spot. This was sparked off by an email I received recently about Blood Bowl. Well, I don’t know about the wise bit, but I can manage the words… on a good day, anyway! What I’d like to talk about is the role of the Commissioner in running a league. 1999 I see from the contents page that Steve thinks I have a ‘few wise words’ to share with you.
BLOOD BOWL COMPENDIUM # 2 WELCOME TO THE SECOND BLOOD BOWL COMPENDIUM By Jervis Johnson Originally published in Blood Bowl Compendium #2 Copyright Games Workshop Ltd.
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