Household x2 – through Mon 23 Nov

Through Monday, November 23 we present two offers featuring English-language .PDF ebooks of the teeny-tiny RPG Household from Riccardo “Rico” Sirignano and Simone Formicola of Two Little Mice in Rome, Italy. If you’re new to this beautifully brutal game of little wars in an abandoned House, start with our revived November 2024 Household Bundle, with the core rulebook and early supplements. Then expand your acreage with the all-new companion offer, Household Volume II.

Funded in a powerhouse(hold) May 2022 Kickstarter campaign, Household is a wainscot fantasy (a term for stories of tiny folk in an outsized world) filled with adventure, intrigues, and social interactions in a large abandoned house. Its setting resembles the early XIX Century, and each room constitutes a nation unto itself. Players of Household are littlings, the Little Folk from European folklore. These miniature beings navigate crises across five troubled years starting at the end of the First Household War. In this time of ideological and industrial revolution, the littlings overcome old disagreements and make new alliances. This epochal history ends in the shadow of a new threat.

When the family built the house, the Little Folk of the Outside scattered to different fates. Now littling characters may be Faeries, known for their grace, and for the beauty of their dragonfly wings; Boggarts, the strongest and most loyal among all the little people; Sluagh, outsiders from Farbeyond, able to regenerate even deadly wounds; and Sprites, who share an ancestral bond with the Household elements. These abilities stem from the ancient Hereditary Contracts their forebears struck with the Ancestral Forces. Individuals can also strike Personal Contracts that grant amazing powers. Each littling must honor their Contracts or suffer Terrible Terrible Things: bizarre, dangerous, and extremely unlikely events that grow ever more cumbersome. A littling also has a Profession (Soldier, Scholar, Hunter, Criminal, Duelist, or Animal Handler) and a Vocation (subclass) that grants a starting Trait.

The abandoned House is vast and dangerous, full of pitfalls and traps. It has seen thousands of battles, but it’s always beautiful and majestic. Everything was created for a human family that vanished mysteriously: the tall walls, decorated with ancient motifs; the carpets, stretching to the horizon; the unreachable ceilings that humidity has painted with indoor stars. No littling has seen every corner of this world.

After the family vanished, the littling nations occupied different parts of the house: The Realm of the Fairies controls the Dining Hall; the Boggart nation of the Hearth manages the Living Room; the Free Dominions (Sprites) range across the Upper Floor; and the eerie Sluagh swarm across the Basement as the Horde of the Great Blade. Their territorial wars have only recently ceased – or paused.

Household uses small pools of six-sided dice to determine the outcome of all tasks that involve obstacles or threats. When rolling dice in Household, your goal isn’t to roll the highest or lowest possible total, but to combine as many equal symbols as you can in pairs, three-of-a-kind, and so on. Your skills, resources, Contracts, and Decorum adjust the size of your dice pool and permit multiple Re-rolls. Failed rolls give you Stress; after you become Overstressed, you may have to Bow Out until the next Chapter of the adventure.

Amid old disagreements, new alliances, and great revolutions, Household history is being made. Every littling, no matter how small, has the power to change the world. So temper your pins and sharpen your scissors – wear your best suits and bridle your mice – you’re going on a tiny adventure!

1. HOUSEHOLD [from Nov 2024]

This revived November 2024 Household Bundle has the core rulebook and early supplements. If you’re new to the game, start here. Pay just US$14.95 to get all three complete English-language titles in this revived offer’s Household Items (retail value $65) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the beautiful full-color 320-page Household corebook (plus the pay-what-you-want Quickstart Guide), the rules expansion A Practical Guide to Living Inside the House, and the campaign supplement A Saga of the Fragile Peace.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Household2026

2. HOUSEHOLD VOLUME II [all-new]

After you close your purchase of the November 2024 Household Bundle, annex the additional properties in this new Household Volume II companion offer. Funded in a half-million euro November 2024 BackerKit campaign, Household Volume II sends the fractious nations of the House across the immense Front Yard, home of new Little Folk and creatures of all shapes and sizes. Visit the Fountain, where the legendary Battle of Quillwaters was fought – Bramble Town, where the Boggarts found refuge during their exile – even the stump of the Dendronaos Tree and the distant Shogunate of the Silver Blade in the Backyard. Household Volume II also introduces new mechanics tied to the changing Seasons, new colossal opponents that are completely out of scale for littlings, and a new profession, the Wayfarer.

YouTuber Dave Thaumovore made a preview of this cold war: “Household Vol. 2 takes the brilliant adventure outside”

Pay just $12.95 to get both titles in this offer’s Household Expansion (retail value $45), including the rules expansion Household Volume II (plus the free preview An Introduction to the Garden) and the 202-page campaign supplement A Saga of the Long Winter.