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DRAFTING A BLOOD BOWL 
 SEVENS TEAM 
 lood Bowl Sevens feams are drafted just like 
 B team rosters. Howevet, there are a few key 
 other Blood Bowl teams, using the same 
 differences to be aware of: 
 TEAM DRAFT BUDGET 
 he Team Draft Budget is the amount of gold 
 pieces you have to spend on your rookie team: 
 DESIGNER'S NOTE: 
 CURRENCY CONVERSION 
 ne important thing to remember about 
 Blood Bowl Sevens is that it represents an 
 amateur game, Neither the staff nor the 
 players are protessionals, and the sums of money 
 thrown around aren't lkely to be all that high! 
 With that in mind, we would suggest that, 
 wherever possible, coaches use the term 'copper 
 pleces' instead of 'gold pieces'. This has litle to no 
 bearing upon the game; a Human Lineman costs 
 50,000 'points', and how those points are named 
 matters litle, But for the purposes of Blood Bow 
 Sevens, referring to those points as 'copper pieces 
 rather than 'gold pieces' is far more characterful and, 
 we have found, adds greatly to the fun! 
 Or 
 When drafting a Blood Bowl Sevens team for league 
 play, you have a budget ot 600,000 gold pieces to 
 spend on players, Sideline Staf, team re-rolls and 
 so forth. 
 HIRING PLAYERS 
 Players are the only compulsory element on any 
 Blood Bowl Sevens team. Each team roster details all 
 of the players available to a team of that type and their 
 Hiring Fee. When drafting a team for Blood Bowl,Sevens, 
 you should select the players you want to permanently 
 hire for your team, pay their hiring cost from your Team 
 Draft Budget and make a record of the player on the 
 Team Draft list. 
 PLAYER POSITIONS 
 There are distinctions to be made between the players 
 within a team, separating them by their role within the 
 game, from the humble Lineman to the more specialised 
 roles performed by the 'positional' players. 
 LINEMEN: The backbone of any team: 
 Allteams will have a player type that they are 
 a 
 permitted to take 0-12 or 0-16 of. Regardless of name 
 (for many races call their Linemen by another name), 
 this Player type is the team's 'Lineman' positional. 
 NUMBER OF PLAYERS 
 The first and most important thing to be aware of when 
 drafting a Blood Bowi team is the minimum and maximum 
 number of players permitted: 
 OTHER POSITIONS AND BIG GUYS: Unlike a normal 
 team, a team drafted for Blood Bowl Sevens cannot 
 simply recruit as many players of other types as the 
 coach wishes. Blood Bowl Sevens teams represent 
 amateur sides, so specialist players, such as Blitzers, 
 Throwers and so forth, are quite uncommon: 
 Every Blood Bowl Sevens team must contain a 
 minimum of seven (7) permanently hired players 
 when it is first drafted. 
 No Blood Bowl Sevens team can ever contain more 
 than eleven (11) permanently hired players. 
 JOURNEYMEN: As with any Blood Bowl team, during the 
 course of a league season, the number of players a team 
 can field may fall below seven due to injury and death. 
 This is permitted and Blood Bowl Sevens teams may 
 'Recruit Journeymen' just like any other team. However, 
 the quality of Journeymen available is likely to be lower 
 than usual (such reserves are normaly found in the local 
 pub, after all): 
 A Blood Bowl Sevens team may include a maximum 
 of four (4) players that are not Linemen. 
 A Blood Bowl Sevens team may not include more 
 players of a certain type than are allowed by the team 
 roster, For example, an Elven Union team is allowed 
 0-2 Blitzers, meaning a Blood Bowls Sevens Elven 
 Union team may include zero, one or two Blitzers, 
 but may not include three. 
 A Journeyman on a Blood Bowl Sevens team replaces 
 the Loner (4-+) trait with the Loner (5+) trait.