Sports that have featured in your campaigns

Critias · February 28, 2015, 05:06:26 PM

I wrote an adventure, Super Brawl Sunday, all focused on the Shadowrun game Urban Brawl. Seattle was hosting the Super Brawl that year, but was grouchy because neither of their home teams were involved. Some spiteful fans got their money together and hired some thugs to take out their frustrations on the inbound team busses, and then some of the thugs decided to kidnap star players. The PCs were hired to scramble around the city recovering Urban Brawl stars. Then -- if they did a good enough job to get enough "faces" on the field -- they receive a supplementary contract to be fillers, all covered up in helmets and armor and stuff, to play in the big game.

trekkiebob · February 28, 2015, 08:59:14 PM

Cricket.

Played against the Aztec gods of the dead for the souls of one of the PCs wife and children.

It was a weird game.

Emperor Norton · February 28, 2015, 09:06:59 PM

I've not done it, but I've always wanted to use Warhammer Fantasy to play a campaign in the blood bowl universe, where the characters are teammates on a team and have most of the game revolve around matches and all the crazy hijinks they get into between them.

TheShadow · March 01, 2015, 06:14:46 AM

I'd like to see hussade featured in a game someday.

RPGPundit · March 03, 2015, 10:01:23 PM

I've done this a few times: in my Legion game, for example, I remember having the PCs involved in Magno-ball (the Braalian sport) and Batball (the futuristic descendant of baseball).

In my Albion game, the PCs were involved in Manchester Shrovetide foot-ball, the ancestor to modern soccer/football, which was long illegalized for its tendency to wanton destruction and violence.
The Albion RPG book (soon to be published) will have details about that game.

Larsdangly · March 04, 2015, 10:11:11 AM

Troll Ball! All the old RQ grognards know of what I speak...

And, of course, gladitorial fights.

Ravenswing · March 04, 2015, 08:49:09 PM

Quote from: Larsdangly;818818Troll Ball! All the old RQ grognards know of what I speak...

Yep. Since trolls in my world are pretty much RQ trolls, at least one party has seen a Trollball match. Freaked the party pacifist out, too, especially when one enterprising troll spiked the "ball" ...

LordVreeg · March 04, 2015, 09:04:38 PM

BrokenBall is a very popular game in much of the Cradle area of Celtricia.
Both the history and the rules have been worked through. Somewaht similar to Soccer in that the offensive players can use only their feet and the defensive ones their hands and feet, it is very rough and tumble and played in lots every where. The goal is small and tubular.

Even much of the social impact. People who play a lot are called 'Clubbers', and in the collegium game, there are two levels of league, the Dorm league (playerd with the underclassmen of the Collegium Arcana) and the Fraternal League, where each large Order of magic, as well as 4 outside teams from other learning faction, compete.

Werekoala · March 04, 2015, 09:29:08 PM

Many years back, classic LBB Traveller. My players got involved in a sabotage-turned-murder investigation/caper in the high-stakes sport of hydrofoil racing between the supporting pillars of arcologies on a water-world.

Yeah, that was a good one.

crkrueger · March 05, 2015, 03:20:41 PM

No Warhammer visit to Middenheim is complete without Snotball (soccer/rugby with a tied snotling as the ball) shenanigans.

My Shadowrun characters have gotten mixed up in gambling and cheating schemes with most of the major sports at one point or another, including trying to extract a star player from an Aztec Courtball team, and actually playing in an Urban Brawl match (think NFL, Running Man, and Rollerball...with machineguns).

A Soccer Hooligan brawl makes for a great police distraction....add in the whole boat of National, Racial, Corporate hatreds and you can keep the National Guard tied up too.

There's always Ye Olde Tourney that's pretty popular from competition to extra-curricular activities.

Baron Opal · March 06, 2015, 10:09:04 AM

Quote from: Ravenswing;818872Yep. Since trolls in my world are pretty much RQ trolls, at least one party has seen a Trollball match. Freaked the party pacifist out, too, especially when one enterprising troll spiked the "ball" ...

Have you ever played live Trollball? It was a blast for me.

Each player had their foam club. A solid hit knocked the limb out of commission until you reached the medic on the sidelines. The great trolls were half-backs, and if they hit you you had to touch belly or back to the ground before you could move on. They were so strong they knocked you down, you see.

The trollkin was the 2 ft long plush humanoid with detachable limbs and head. We had two, fortunately, and there's a lot of wear and tear on the trollkin in Trollball.

tuypo1 · March 06, 2015, 10:11:46 PM

hm soccer riots that gives me some ideas

Ravenswing · March 07, 2015, 02:44:02 AM

Quote from: Baron Opal;819068Have you ever played live Trollball? It was a blast for me.

Nope. The closest to live fantasy sport I ever did was when an eventholder in my fantasy boffer LARP decided to do a game vaguely reminiscent of soccer, with a "ball" about 7' wide (basically a giant polyhedron made of a lattice of PVC pipe). Pushers manipulated it with poles to try to push it into a soccer net -- we played on the UMass soccer practice ground -- while a handful of warriors defended their pushers and attacked the other guys. With the spear-like poles being unpadded and the "ball" itself a bit more fragile than was expected, the game broke a few of our safety rules and wasn't repeated ...

Daztur · March 07, 2015, 08:47:34 PM

In my Icelandic Sagas campaign the players played stick ball, which I interpreted as like field hockey with an pig bladder as a ball. Winged a lot of stuff with attack rolls for shots on goal and beating other player unconscious with the sticks. After getting the lead the players destroyed the ball "accidentally" to avoid the other team getting a chance to score and won a fighting horse.

soltakss · March 08, 2015, 10:51:29 AM

Out old RQ campaign had "Duck Golf", played by trolls and giants. Basically, you take a duck, a big club and try to hit the duck so that it flies into a pond.