Our Once Proud House

Description

This is a game about taking as much as you can and watching the world burn.

Our Once Proud House is played with a “tumbling block tower” and a deck of playing cards. As you and the other siblings squabble over your family’s legacy, you will pull blocks from the tower to represent the money, estates, favours, titles, businesses, cars, servants, and whatever else you can get your greedy mitts on. Whoever has the highest personal tower at the end of the game wins so greed is a necessity!

The deck of playing cards introduces random events that can give you helpful powers to activate during the game or can throw a wrench in the gears by causing your character to fall in love, to be investigated by the authorities, to nearly die, and many more!

This 20 page zine is designed to be playable in any setting and so far we’ve ran games in a morbid version of The Wind in the Willows, as fairy mobsters, a wizard’s awful apprentices, a pirate crew, and a badly remembered version of the empire from Dune. All of which had our cheeks hurting from laughing!