Category: Houses of the Blooded


  • Ven literature is filled with books, scrolls and other reading materials from the unspeakable ones. These Artifacts not only provide the ven with Rituals but also knowledge of the times before the Great Ruin. Forbidden Tomes art Artifacts. Ven characters find them in Ruins, hidden libraries and elsewhere in Shanri. Yes, this also means they…

  • Houses of the Blooded. FIVE BUCKS.The four hundred and thirty-eight page Houses of the Blooded PDF is FIVE BUCKS. Did I mention you can download the PDF of my newest book for FIVE BUCKS? You know why? Because I want you playing my game! FIVE BUCKS. Seriously. FIVE BUCKS. Not because I’m desperate (the book…

  • D’Valesh gets mentioned in more than a few works–I found it in The Great and Terrible Life of Shara Yvarai–that takes advantages of the amazing ven metabolic system and their inbred sense of cruelty. What you need are two contestants, six throwing knives and two large targets… Learn more about this bloody and dangerous "garden…

  • Shipping UpdateThe books arrived on Friday and IPR starts shipping them on Monday.THANK YOU to everyone who waited so patiently. Let me explain what happened. First, the printer shipped books to me rather than IPR. This means it took an extra week for the books to show up. Not only that, but they showed up…

  • It appears the books arrived at IPR last night. We’re still trying to confirm. I’ll keep everyone updated as things move along.

  • I hate this part of the business. First, the printer was supposed to ship boxes to IPR, but they shipped them to me by mistake, adding a week on the shipping time to customers. So, I lug the books down to the Post Office and ship them off to IPR myself. About 20 boxes, each…

  • (originally posted at the HotB Forums at www.housesoftheblooded.net/forums) This is a brief introduction on the standards we expect at the Shanri Research Institute. Please follow these guidelines for the best chance of having your research verified.Cite Your SourcesThis is the most important step. If you look through the introduction of the core book, you’ll see…

  • A few notes… Limited Edition The LE books will be sent to Indie Press Revolution on Monday. Everyone who ordered the book will get a confirmation e-mail as well as the location of a secret website to download the bonus CD. That will be up next week before I leave for Gen Con. The .pdf…

  • I will be at Gen Con! I’ll be at the Abstract Nova/Flames Rising booth #2115. I’ll have 100 copies of Houses of the Blooded for sale. If you already ordered a copy, let me know via e-mail. I’ll bring a list and you can pick it up there. I’ll also have… other goodies. You’ll have…

  • mnight  has posted her second installment of the Houses of the Blooded game she’s running (and I’m playing in!).  ReflectionsOne of the first (if not the first) supplements I’ll be doing for the game is a little book called Blood & Tears. It’ll be the full PVP/LARP rules. Playing the game as someone who’s seen…