Unrealistic Expectations/Wishful Thinking: PBEM (Play by Email) for multiplayer

[Hannibal0216 도마도 재배자]

I know this will most likely (like almost no chance whatsoever) never happen, but how awesome would it be to have a PBEM option for some games? Imagine having 10 (or 50) games going at once and being able to step away to deal with real life (or a short attention span) when you needed to. My BB MP proportion would go from 15% to 80%. Getting stomped into the ground game after game would be much more tolerable if I didn't have to sit in one spot for an hour+ and just take it. Just wishful thinking I know. I'm not one of those people that demands the devs put my favorite feature in a game. But man would it be nice.

[VoodooMike]

Blood Bowl is not a great candidate for PBEM, though there have been versions made in the past (not of this particular product line from Cyanide, but by players themselves) the fact that turns are not "atomic".. meaning that on your turn your opponent may be called upon to make one or more choices.. would make PBEM matches very slow.

There was a rather... contentious discussion on TBB (A BB related forum that includes members of the BBRC - the people who created the rulesets prior to BB2016) about how to automate or remove the decisions the other player makes on your turn while maintaining the overall play. It's doable, but rubs many purists the wrong way.

It'll never happen in this particular product line, of course, but it HAS been done in the past, and people have discussed ways of making it less clunky.

[turnopia]

I have a few old friends that I used to play tabletop with who would definitely play a mode like this. There are many people, especially among those of us who raise children and/or have a daily job, who could not dedicate like one full hour with almost constant attention to a game.

There are also other formats that could help, such as Sevens or games where the first to score wins (the underdog attacks).