Hollow Earth Expedition Rpg

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Most readers recognise the book as science-fiction - following earlier tales by Edgar Allen Poe and Jules Verne - yet for some Hollow Earth enthusiasts, it remains startling fact. The session convinced me even more that this was a game that I really wanted to play more of and I purchased the other three source books currently available. The elders of the Hopi people believe that a Sipapu entrance in the Grand Canyon exists which leads to the underworld.

My big complaint here is that the chart states that a rating of 5 in a Skill is just average – this seems odd. If you ever wanted to play a rpg where Indiana Jones, The Rocketeer, Jurassic Park, Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Shadow, would meet: don't look any further. I just want to reflect on how, sometimes, the freedom in the creation of the character risks undermining the beauty of a story. A successful campaign really needs a talented GM with a lot of free time or one of the HEX supplements to aid him.

If you’re interested then check out the adventure log but the highlights were an incinerated T-rex, hordes or ape-men chasing characters across clearings and a low level sky diving episode with a prototype parachute. it's got a lot of nice bits (though it gets a bit too crunchy at times (as I think the example of the dude hunting the tyrannosaurus shows). Owen Egerton, director of horror movies such as Mercy Black and Blood Fest, is also a talented novelist. As the first went so well, not to mention that the players suggested it to me, I decided to run a follow on adventure for the same characters a week later. Healing rates are increased in the Hollow Earth, and some sort of strange radiation – perhaps due to the center sun – has strengthened everything.

This probably isn’t a bad thing to be honest as I have an ongoing Pathfinder campaign that we’re really enjoying and I know that people are also keen to revisit HEX and pick up on where we left off last session. Pterosaurs attacking the airship and forcing it down followed by ape-men chasing the characters to the river seemed like an obvious and easy in and I expected it to take about 45 mins of game time to do this and then I could run the adventure as written. Players take on the roles of two-fisted adventurers, eager academics and intrepid journalists investigating the mysteries of the Hollow Earth. I listen to videos by The Gentleman Gamer, Runeslinger, etc and rapidly realise that I am a long way from being able to run their types of game.

If the Attacker scores more successes than the Defender, those successes become Lethal or Non-lethal damage. A GM might set a Difficulty at 3 (Tough), for example, and a roll of exactly 3 would be a Minor Success. In Mesopotamian religion there is a story of a man who, after traveling through the darkness of a tunnel in the mountain of "Mashu", entered a subterranean garden.

This claims to be the truthful account of Norwegian fisherman Olaf Jansen's encounters with a race of ancient giants living inside the Earth. While he was writing the book, Egerton viewed the Hollow Earth Theory as a bit of harmless fun, but recent events have made him reconsider that view.Extensive information on travel is provided, which is a very wise choice given the amount of travel that occurs in many pulp games. The idea of a Hollow Earth may sound ridiculous, but the theory was once taken seriously by scientists and politicians. The Hollow Earth is a key location in Legendary Pictures's MonsterVerse films, being the point of origin of the Titans and the strange animals of Skull Island. When acting in accordance with her Motivation you will gain extra Style points to spend to influence rolls.