Category: Houses of the Blooded

I’m really out of my league here.

I’d like to use the standard OGL for Houses of the Blooded. Is there really any reason I shouldn’t?

Anybody got an opinion?

“The world is about to end. And we dance and we sing.”

Living Shanri is a shared universe created by players of the Houses of the Blooded roleplaying game. Playing in Living Shanri is free… with one notable exception. We’ll discuss that below. Players take the roles of nobles in the world of Shanri, using their own culture, allies and enemies as weapons to gain political power and prestige.

More at the HotB Design Blog.

(Hint: We’re going live in November.)

For the Fall Quarter, Houses of the Blooded sold better than I ever expected.

The PDF sales alone were amazing. Over 400 people paid five bucks to look at my game. How many more have copies of the PDF… we can only speculate.

I’ve gone through 4 print runs of the core book and with numbers as they are at IPR, it looks like I’ll need to run another one. With GenCon, IPR sales and private sales (carrying around boxes of books in my trunk), I’ve sold over 500 copies in just 90 days. No marketing, no distributors. Just me and my book.

I’m having trouble keeping up with the print runs. This is a very good problem to have.

When scholars write about No More Roses (one of Shivon Mwrr’s last operas) most call it one of his "mediocre masterpieces." Mwrr wrote it in a time of mourning for his lover, the unamed "Lady V."

His heart broken by grief, Mwrr made three aborted attempts to compose the pieces, finally completing it five years after he began. He wrote, "Finished, and rightly so." It was one of his last pieces before his lost swan song, Shadows and Love.

These tracks are what remains of his original work. Long thought to be a complete Opera, recent researches have discovered Act 3 to be a forgery, leaving us with an incomplete picture of Shivon Mwrr’s masterpiece of tragedy, love and revenge.

The Blood Opera Suite is an atmospheric soundtrack for your Houses of the Blooded game. Over an hour from the long-lost No More Roses opera, The Blood Opera Suite is a perfect sonic weapon for your Houses of the Blooded games.

OVER AN HOUR OF MUSIC.
FIVE BUCKS.

 

I meant to save some advanced Bloodsword mechanics for The Invisible World: Sorcery and the Suaven but players have asked for something more substantial and I’m the guy who does what people want. Especially when they buy my book. So here are some advanced Bloodsword rules…

See more in the HotB News and Design Blog.

Inspired by a session with Snag (therefore, he gets credit for this), let’s talk about another use for Courage.

Everyone knows how Courage risks against Terror work. You fail, you have to start spending Style Points. Even if you succeed, you have to spend wagers equal to the Terror.

Okay, friends. You can thank Snag for this one…

You can read more in the News and Design Blog.

If you ordered the Limited Edition, the InDesign files were missing from your download. I have corrected that oversight. You may now download the InDesign Files.

If you have any questions, e-mail me at the usual place.