As most of you already know, Games Workshop is about to release a new edition of Blood Bowl. There are a few threads about this on the forums already and I figured that rather than bury my thoughts in one/all of those threads, I'd make a blog entry with my thoughts.

First of all, I have obviously pre-ordered a set for myself. Base game, Death Zone Season 1 (and also the skaven, just because). While the official release date is on the 25th, living way up north in Sweden I'm not entirely certain I'll have my copy at that date. We'll see.

With that out of the way, what are my plans for the ruleset? FUMBBL has always strived to implement the latest ruleset to the extent it's been possible. At times, we've fallen behind a bit, and some things haven't been implemented at all to this day. That being said, I think FUMBBL is by far the most accurate version available on the Internet. The new ruleset is according to previews more or less the same as what we know already so we are likely not going to need any major changes.

Essentially, FUMBBL will switch to the new rules to the best of my ability. It won't be on the 25th of November though, but I will set up a thread on the forum where changes can be discussed. After some relatively short period of time, the easy changes will have settled down (roster changes for example) and the "official" rosters will be updated on the site. Things that require a bit more work (new skills, etc) is something I can not make any promises about, but at least we'll have a place where they're collected.

With a bunch of races only available in the Death Zone complement, I am considering DZ to be a core part of the ruleset and will effectively consider the combination the "latest ruleset" as far as the target for the site.

One thing that makes things interesting is the "Season 1" part of the name. It strongly implies that there will be more going forward. It essentially gives GW a path to add more races to the mix should they choose to. Unless things go completely crazy on that end, I will continue striving to keep up with any additions made to the game through future seasons as well.

I doubt any of this comes as a surprise for you, especially those that have been here for a long time, but it's an exciting time for us Blood Bowl fans and I wanted to post the official intent to avoid silly speculation and rumors :)