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Houses of the Blooded on the Cheap

August 31st, 2008 · Luke · 4 Comments

I’m a John Wick fan. He’s written some of my favorite games (Legend of the Five Rings, 7th Sea, Orkworld) and I’m a big fan of his Play Dirty vidcasts. Some of you may know he just released a new game, Houses of the Blooded.  I’ve been following the game’s development because it really hit the sweet spot for me:  noble houses, intrigue, modified FATE system, domain rules.  Stuff that you know I love if you’ve been following the Campaign Recaps of KTNG at all.

Well, John’s done something wild.  For an unspecified limited time, he’s selling HotB PDFs for $5. It’s 438 pages.  As I have yet to really dig into the book myself, I can’t tell you much about the game beyond what I learned by watching development, but I can tell you that it’s easily worth $5 for the GMing advice that it contains alone, never mind the game.

I like to share good deals and good games.  This seems to be both.  Go look into it.

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4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Brad // Sep 1, 2008 at 3:23 am

    Thanks for that one Luke. I am just sitting down to read through it now.

  • 2 David // Sep 1, 2008 at 8:11 am

    I just bought it. Thanks for the heads up!

  • 3 Rob // Sep 2, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    SHA-WING!

    Bought and currently drooling over my laptop instead of working.

    HotB has me at “anti-D&D” :D

  • 4 Players Have Spoken | Houses of the Blooded // Sep 14, 2008 at 11:32 am

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