Two games this weekend: the Saturday game and the Sunday game. Lots of progress, both for the system and the story. SystemThe Seasons went through the wringer again. I’ve moved “Harvest” to the end of the current Season, which makes tracking your Season actions a lot easier. It sacrifices a bit of the “long term”…
This section deals with Blessings. I do not have all the Blessings. A few of the Houses are short. Any suggestions are welcome. The Blessings listed below are given to those who are Devoted to a suaven. You may choose any of the Blessings for which you qualify, but you may not have more Blessings…
New suaven rules. The ven do not die of old age. Instead, their bodies slow down, their blood cools, and their skin begins emitting a strange substance called altrua. Altrua is not unlike spider’s webs. Over the years, they fall into a state they call “solace.” Eventually, the entire body goes into hibernation, wrapped up…
Mass Murder A mass of bodies throwing violence at each other. Iron and muscle, sweat and blood. Clamor and alarum. And in the end, there will be bodies bleeding their lives away. Whenever groups of ven need to settle their differences with violence, the GM calls for the Mass Murder rules. Here’s how they work.…
I’m running into a stumbling block. “Mass Murder,” the mass combat section devoted to multi-user fight scenes, is a mess. The Houses system works great with duels, but not with groups of bloodthirsty ven and/or orks. I want a system that’s elegant. A system that doesn’t require a bunch of dice rolls and memory. And I just can’t…
Those of you who have the current Houses Word docs… all the non-game related material is cool. Everything else is changing. I’m starting from scratch.
Writing adventures for Houses of the Blooded is easy. I mean, easy. No, easier than that. I’ve run the game for multiple groups. Con games, house games, no matter. Months of playtest taught me many things about this game, but the one I found most remarkable was this: If you let them, the players run…
Short StoryIf you’d like to listen to songs from a real honest to gosh ven blood opera, click here. Long StoryThe songs are taken from the most famous ven opera, Ythala and Talsho. (It also happens to be the only one we have completely intact.) Providing the archetype for future doomed lovers (it is thought…