Six of Hounds

04/10/2024

It's spooky season! Celebrate by throwing your friends this dinner party hosted by (Baba) Yaga, a supernatural force who sometimes eats people.

The latest Six of Hounds scenario is suitable for home, convention, and interactive theater style play.

A dinner party with (Baba) Yaga.

11/04/2024

Come listen to a tacky children's choir while sorting out issues of love, property...and the ancient SPOON in our new scenario, THE GOOSEBERRY MARRIAGE, a Wodehouse-inspired romp set in an unspeakably quaint British village.

A comedic larp of romance, property lines, and ancient rivalries set in an unspeakably quaint English Village.

29/02/2024

Six of Hounds seeks playtesters for our new farce, The Goosebury Marriage. (2-3 hours; 6-12 participants).

Inspired by the likes of PG Wodehouse, the larp takes place in Heddington-Goodge, an unspeakably quaint English Village currently celebrating The Goosebury Festival. The local gentry has gathered to politely applaud at singing school children, but also to hash out affairs of the heart and property lines behind the scenes. Luckily, their servants are here to keep them from messing up too badly.

And of course...there's also the matter of the old spoon.

Play inventively named characters like Poff Sleaford and Heron Le Bone, who are exactly who you'd expect, or Olive Tedcastle, a woman far too cool to marry Cornelius Loddington-Jones, even if both of them were straight.

Do you have a group that might be interested in testing this? Reach out below!

02/11/2023

Hey friends, we *always* have stuff we need external playtesting for. We don't need readers or editors, but if you have access to a group of friends, a few hours, and a desire to try weird games that may be a little rough around the edges, absolutely let us know! Play is what we need.

Right now we'd love to see you try:

Sluga, an ominous game about bad people at a supernatural dinner party they may never leave (6-8, pretty intense prep for the host, 3 hours)

The Sternest Good Night, a black box game about a family that experiences something extraordinary and unexplainable - over and over again (4-5, ideally with some colored lights, 2-3 hours)

Be loved by us! Playtest our games!

26/10/2023

Welcome to Six of Hounds central! You'll find many of our games in posts below. Follow us to stay abreast of new releases.

26/10/2023

One fun thing about We Are Not Vampires is that it gives participants an opportunity to subvert both vampire and reality TV tropes in ways that are both effortless and often genuinely funny. By presenting a group of useless vampires with simple tasks they are absolutely going to screw up, the game sort of runs itself. There's no pressure - you know what to do!

The wild reality show competition for ordinary folks who are not vampires! A short larp.

26/10/2023

From the Nation's Capital and the Ministry of Information Broadcasting Center, Program One presents the Evening News, live and updated.

The Broadcast is an absurd larp about journalism in a totalitarian state, and what telling the truth means when falsehood is the coin of the realm.

Tell the truth and you'll doom yourself, but maybe save the nation. An absurd larp about journalists and dictators.

26/10/2023

Do you like cozy animals and the bittersweet last days of companionship before friends go their separate ways? In parting Day In Mossley Wood, you play Potter/Milne/Grahame-inspired woodland creatures on the cusp of adulthood. You'll make friendship bracelets and reminisce and say goodbye. Simple, sweet, sometimes touching.

A cozy larp about friendship, arts and crafts, and saying goodbye. Playable in person or online.

26/10/2023

CONIFER began as a specific challenge - make a larp for four specific friends that will delight each of them. The end result is an unusual game that will delight you, too - if you like historical spycraft, tons of real world documentation, Bolivian history, and water cooler grousing about paperwork and sclerotic CIA bureaucracy. In CONIFER you engineer the 1971 Bolivian right-wing coup, but trust us, you'll keep your hands perfectly clean. https://sixofhounds.itch.io/conifer

26/10/2023

We're very proud of The Lesser Player's Tale, winner of the coveted Best Scenario Otto at Fastaval 2020!

You play a grubby troupe of Renaissance actors taking their best play, a racy tragedy, on the road. Along the way, they’ll furiously adapt that play to the absurd whims of each new audience.

A grubby troupe of Renaissance actors take their new play on the road

26/10/2023

Zoom Your Way To Healing, Love, and Intimacy With Shad McConkey was a mid-pandemic experiment in distributed play. It's free for a reason, but also very fun in the right hands. A very simple game about discussion and argument mediated by silly constraints and an ever-present timer.

26/10/2023

Usually family meetings are pretty relaxed. You all like each other. You aren't fools. No one is an opinionated, impulsive as***le. Well, Grandpa was an opinionated, impulsive as***le. But he's dead. He's also coming to the family meeting...

This is our (free!) Golden Cobra 2022 game. Made for Zoom play!

Grandpa was an opinionated, impulsive as***le. But he’s dead. He’s also coming to the family meeting.

26/10/2023

Enjoy a free-flowing argument with your friends, structured around Wikipedia links. First one to "Philosophy" wins!



https://sixofhounds.itch.io/getting-to-philosophy

19/10/2023

Wanna eat pie and die dramatically with your friends? Us too. Enjoy the taste of fall with this light hour-long game based on a real Victorian trade group--the Pie Trust.

Eat pie and die dramatically in this short party larp.

19/10/2023

Welcome to WE ARE NOT VAMPIRES, the reality competition for vampires pretending to be human!

Sure, you've brought the ancient city of Eridu to its knees...but can you make dinner for a surly teen while flacking the new Carnal Space flavor of Blast-Off energy drink? With $250,000 on the line, let's find out.

WE ARE NOT VAMPIRES is a comedic larp for 5-10 participants that plays well in front of audiences or in your own living room.

https://sixofhounds.itch.io/we-are-not-vampires

They are a US-based writing team of award-winning game designers. Jason is best-known for designing Fiasco, while Lizzie is best-known for her monograph and blog series Leaving Mundania.