One of the main sources for this revision is a PDF I have taken to calling The Historical Document. Originally titled House Games Player’s Guide, it is a 122 page PDF containing the rules of House Games, largely “revised” from the original House Games wiki. Much like this website, it aims to be a comprehensive guide to House Games. The Historical document itself likely from around 2007-20111 and the original author only has an email credit, with the handle Eterry.
On top of that the Document has two revisions. The first dated February 1st, 2013, and types in Yellow highlighted text. The second revision is dated May 29th, 2018, and types in Green highlighted text. As far as I can tell, both revision authors are different people2 and I will be refering to them as ‘Yellow’ and ‘Green’.
The Historical Document is a fucking mess to read. The original document itself is long, poorly laid out and without a table of contents. Yellow and Green do not help. There are entire pages added or stricken by either of them, and the pages contain a lot of marginalia arguments between the three authors. In addition much of the text by the revision authors is written in what can only be described as “channer dialect”; style of writing filled with edge, hyperbole and slurs popular on sites such as 4chan or Something Awful.
While it makes for fascinating reading overall, the Historical Document is a very poor tool as a games rulebook. Between this and the other main resource for House Games being a PDF of screenshots of an abandoned wiki (with zero text data) was the main motivating factor behind the 8th Gen revision.)
That being said, I felt it prudent to at the very least host and preserve the Historical document on this website. Some of the three authors’ revisions are used in ours, some are not.
Please note there are contained with in names and emails of real people. DO NOT BOTHER THESE PEOPLE. This PDF is at least 14 years old. Do not bother people over a game they played long ago. I condemn and disown any attempts to do so.
Click here to view and download the original PDF.
I at some point plan to add my own commentary to the Historical Document. Watch this space for updates.
- Evidenced by the linking of a defunct Myspace page. ↩︎
- Who they are ultimately does not matter and I have no interest in learning. It should also be noted that while there are a few lines that suggest that Yellow and Green are the same people I have been told by my Protegenator that they are in fact separate. ↩︎