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Dungeon Bowl is Blood Bowl. Or, rather, Blood Bowl as it should have been. Take a few deranged athletes, put them in a magical dungeon, and tell them to score a touchdown. The game has only had two official boxed releases, one in 1989 and the most recent in 2021. However, it is fairly simple to start your coaching career.

The Game

  • The official 2021 boxed release, while out of print, is still widely circulated and can be found widely in games shops and across the internet at not-ridiculous prices if DIY is not your thing. Printable images of the dungeon tiles (as well as rules) and can be found here and there. 
  • The 1989 edition is a supreme rarity and will cost you as much gold as it might take to start up your very own Blood Bowl Team. However, a few kind souls have uploaded both the rules PDF as well as images of the original dungeon tiles for your enjoyment.
  • Likewise, the 1998 "edition", which was initially released in White Dwarf magazine, received a proper release on the old Games Workshop website. So, that particular file can be quite easy to find.
  • If you are in search of an official, boxed version of the game, it's never a bad ideas to check sites like eBay and Noble Knight Games besides searching in your own local community

The Rules

The communal nature of Dungeon Bowl (and Blood Bowl as a whole) can make it difficult to determine which rules should be used to play, especially with the release of the Third Season Edition (BB2025) of Blood Bowl. The answer is: use whatever rules you like!

At this point, most competitive Dungeon Bowl events are following the rulebook as written for the 2021 edition. This makes sense as those rules were treated as a standalone thing, rather than some kind of expansion for Blood Bowl. This rulebook can be found for sale and for free online, as the book (and box) is no longer sold by Games Workshop.

Even with the firm foundation of an official release, there are many variants and "house rules" that have been developed and used over the years. These will be discussed periodically here at the Teleporter Report, but can be perused in various documents, such as those listed here:

The Community

Dungeon Bowl remains a niche within a niche. As such, our community a bit scattered. There is no central hub, no real-life MAD. Thanks to the magic of the internet, those scattered elements can be joined together.

The Video Game?!
Yep. Dungeonbowl had its own video game not too long ago. It was a major flop. However! The Steam key can still be found in the darkest corners of the internet if you wish to give it a go.


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