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Game Info

Title  Houses of the Blooded
Authors  Storn A. Cook, Daniel Solis, John Wick
Book Type  Core Rules
Rank: [ 105 / 4196 ]
Genre  Fantasy / Dark
Setting  Shanri
Awards 
Indie RPG (Indie Game of the Year Runner Up, 2008)
Indie RPG (Best Support Runner Up, 2008)
Indie RPG (Best Production Runner Up, 2008)

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Game Summary

John Wick's game about the ven and Ambition, Love, and Revenge. These are central the the life of the ven nobles. Ambition, Love, and Revenge. Nothing is ever more important. What they can take, they own. Their emotions are powerful and unrestrainted. And when one is wronged, vengence is above all laws. Ambition. Love. And Revenge.

You play a ven noble in a forgotten history, one of the Blooded. The ven are like humans but more powerful, more passionate. Beings of sorcerous creation, surrounded by a world they call "The Enemy" because it is filled with evil magic and dangerous beings. Your weaknesses are just as important as your strengths, and they are often intertwined. Your character owns land, and peasants, and has to dance through the political intricacies in order to survive.

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4 + 5San Dee Jota. Tired of dungeon crawls for strangers? Want to rule a land, raise a dynasty, and and be remembered as a saint? Houses of the Blooded has you covered.
4 + 4C.W.Richeson. Houses of the Blooded offers noble intrigue and backstabbing in an ancient fantasy world of harsh social rules and many opportunities for conflict. Using a FATE-derived system of shared narrative control, a group weaves together stories of intrigue as they plot their nobles' journeys through society.

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