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Category: Houses of the Blooded

  • Weapon or Tool?

    (Smitty is gonna love this.) ____ For the ven, the only weapon is the Sword. Everything else is a tool. Spears, bows, hammers, whatever. Everything else is a tool. If you face an enemy and you have a Sword and your enemy does not, your enemy has the aspect “Tool.” You may tag it for…

  • Houses of the Blooded: The Great and Tragic Life of Shara Yvarai

    I’ve been dividing my time between game design and translation. I’ve undertaken a great task. Translating an obscure ven pillowbook called The Great and Tragic Life of Shara Yvarai. I first read about it in college when studying Plato’s Republic. My research on Atlantis lead me to the ven, and ever since then, I’ve been…

  • Houses of the Blooded: A Larping We Will Go

    I have a small sized group ready, but not a Crew. Need a Crew. I’m heading out to LARP for specific reasons. I want to find playtesters for the Houses Larp. I’m gonna need an enormous amount of people playing the game on a regular basis. The best way to do that is find a huge group.…

  • Houses of the Blooded: The LARP Rules

    This chapter gives general guidelines for playing Houses in a live action environment. The rules are a little different, but basically the same. Let’s take a look at those basics. StyleThe most important change in the system is how players use style. Instead of using dice to determine random elements, we use style.Before we get…

  • The Elk Suaven: Jaymin Steele

    Jaymin Steele  “Leave an enemy alive and he makes allies. Kill him and he makes a grave.” House: Blooded of the ElkFavored Virtue: CunningTitles: the Iron Heart, Winter’s Promise, the Ruthless Jaymin Steele stands alone in the House of the Elk. A mountain of a man, standing a head above his brothers and sisters, he…

  • Houses of the Blooded: Word Count

    2,351: Introduction 33,459: Shanri & the Ven 9,471: Character 6,161: Risk 10,15: Virtues 9,163: Aspects 7,501: Violence 2,362: Poison 2,788: Romance 16,189: Seasons 4,883: Sorcery 8,292: Suaven 9,084: Player 7,920: GM That’s a little more than 120,000 words. And I’m not quite done. I suspect the book will be closer to 200k. Lots to write…

  • Houses of the Blooded: Update

    The release of Houses will be postponed until April, at the GAMA Trade Show. That’s four additional months of waiting. I apologize, but trust me when I say, the delay is for a very good reason I can’t quite talk about just yet. I will be releasing something in November to make up for it.…

  • Houses of the Blooded: A Question

    Why don’t weapons add to my dice?  Ask yourself this question: Is Vin Diesel’s character Riddick most lethal with…  a) a knife  b) a sword  c) a pistol  d) his bare hands, or  e) I’d rather not fight him at all, thank you very much  Never forget the Riddle of Steel. 

  • Houses of the Blooded: Puzzle House Rules

    A Puzzle House provides no Resources for you, but it does add one rank to any Parties you throw there. Puzzle Houses can hold any rank of Party, even rank 5 Parties. A Puzzle House is difficult to navigate, requiring a contested Wisdom risk against the House. The House always rolls six dice for the…

  • Houses of the Blooded: Althua (Parties)

    In our own language, “party” is a little word. Perhaps a better word could be “event.” “Occurrence.” “Occasion.” But “party” somehow seems too small. The ven word, “althua” has two meanings. One is what we’re talking about. Gathering, get-together, festivity. But the word has another meaning. Althua. Where romance begins and revenge ends. Every Season,…