Hollow Earth Expedition - your daily source of dinosaurs and Nazis

Shrieking Emu

Rawr.

Just a heads-up on a very fun RPG that you may have missed.

Anyone played/heard of Hollow Earth Expedition? It's an RPG set in the 1930's, with an emphasis on the "pulp" adventure style and the works of Verne, Conan Doyle, and other authors of the day. It also has a feel similar to that of Indiana Jones, The Mummy, National Treasure, and other similar movies.

I've been running a campaign for a couple sessions, and the players and I really dig it. The mechanics are simple (a dice pool system a la White Wolf) which really makes the gameplay move. There's also a mechanic for "Style Points" which award players for playing up flaws, motivations, and for simply doing cool stuff.

Highly recommended from this D&D fan.

mightyspacepope

This looks incredibly awesome.

trentsteel

Yeah that looks like fun.

Too bad I ran out of people to play these with a long time ago.

trentsteel

I love the character classes.

Scion of Atlantis and Hermetic Magician are HOT

I think I would play the Promethean scientist or rugged adventurer.

VacuumJockey

Good little game, very overlooked. There's also a new supplement out for it, although I can't recall the title right now...

Shrieking Emu

VacuumJockey wrote: »

Good little game, very overlooked. There's also a new supplement out for it, although I can't recall the title right now...

Secrets of the Surface World. Looks good, but I haven't picked it up yet. The second sourcebook, "Mysteries of the Hollow Earth" is set to release at Gen Con this year, I believe.

mightyspacepope

I just received this today. I've only glanced through it, but it's a very good-looking book. Great art, interesting tidbits of information.

Also, dinosaurs and Amazons.

I'm so pumped to try this out sometime.

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Shrieking Emu wrote: »

VacuumJockey wrote: »

Good little game, very overlooked. There's also a new supplement out for it, although I can't recall the title right now...

Secrets of the Surface World. Looks good, but I haven't picked it up yet. The second sourcebook, "Mysteries of the Hollow Earth" is set to release at Gen Con this year, I believe.

It's the Fargate! "F"! It's different from that movie that I've never seen, so how would I copy it?

I just want to make sure that we are clear it's the Fargate. "Goes far", get it? And there it is no way it came from that movie, or that syndicated series based on the movie.

But.... it sure was a good movie.....

Yeah, yes it was...

Dr. Phibbs McAthey

This setting has so much potential. I saw the cover of the book and was sold immediately. I have yet to find anyone to play with me, though. So...anyone up to running a pbp? It would definitely be something different from the other games going on here on CF.