Hollow Earth Expedition
Hollow Earth Expedition (Eng. about Hollow Earth Expedition, often short HEX) is a pen -and- paper role-playing game that thematically deals with the Hollow Earth theory. It was released in 2006 with the U.S. publisher Exile Game Studio and was published in 2009 in German translation at the movement Publisher. In addition, a French version available.
- 3.1 The Upper World
- 3.2 The Hollow Earth
- 3.3 characters
Basic
Hollow Earth Expedition plays in the 1930s and combines real situations and people of that time with fictional and mythological elements, which have partially flow into one another. The time is displayed as a period of boundless confidence in science and technology, were celebrated in the innovation and scientific zest as a triumph.
Control system
The control system Ubiquity was also developed by Exile Game Studio and is a " dice pool system " with a fifty percent chance of success. The result is that you can use for playing in principle any cube that has an even number of surfaces. Additional special dice have been developed to reduce the number of dice to be thrown clear. They are available separately. Other features include style points with which players can " buy " additional dice for their samples, as well as the rule that you can claim half of the cube as successes instead of each cube sample. In addition to the core rulebook some expansion packs have been released by yet, most of them at Exile Game Studio.
Secrets of the upper world
The source book Secrets of the upper world ( Original title: Secrets Of The Surface World ) was published in January 2008 and primarily contains information for campaigns that play in whole or in major parts of the upper world. The additional book deals mainly includes new talent for the characters, more detailed information about organizations and equipment, an introduction to the magic and wacky science, the detailed information about creating crazy machines. The German edition was published in 2011.
Mysteries of the Hollow Earth
The second supplementary book was published in autumn 2010 and is virtually the opposite of secrets of the upper world, as it mainly includes information about the Hollow Earth; to new forms of magic are presented. According to announcement of the movement publishing the German edition to appear in 2011.
Other Publications
Also at Exile Game Studio game conductor shield, said Ubiquity dice and style points appeared appeared in the form of poker chips, a third expansion pack, titled Revelations of Mars (Eng. revelations of Mars ) is still in production. In addition, so far four professional adventures have appeared which were also translated from the movement Publisher.
The game world
Both rulebook as well as enhancements include comprehensive information on the game world is divided into two parts: the upper world, which essentially corresponds to the real world in 1936, and the hollow world, a fantastic world, which can be found inside the earth. The basic idea of the game is that characters from the upper world for some - get reasons from the upper world into the hollow world - mostly scientific. Here, the path to the hollow world is much easier than out of the back.
The Upper World
Most upper world dwellers rely on the technology that has gained especially during and after the " Great War " enormous progress enormously. On the other hand, the occult acts very active - especially the Thule Society and other aspects of the Third Reich are attributed to strong tendencies to occultism, and even to necromancy.
The Hollow Earth
There are a variety of ways to get into the hollow world that propose the rulebook, including drills and polar openings. The hollow world is a world inside the Earth, which is representing as an independent and isolated, with few exceptions, habitat, home to prehistoric animals and plants. It is thus comparable forgotten with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's world. In addition to flora and fauna of the hollow world is also a mirror of human history, as it has repeatedly devious people from the outside world into the hollow world - including pirates and Amazons, to which one can meet in hollow world adventures.
Characters
The characters who take the important parts of the story are superior to the average man and embody usually a certain archetype of man ( Mad Scientist, Professor Cocky, etc.). In general, each character has one or more disadvantages of physical, mental or social in nature, the extent to humanize him again and provide evidence of character game.
Criticism of the German translation
The German edition of the book in the translation of the movement has been criticized for publishing that the translation was apparently not sufficient or not submitted to the editorial, so that many errors have crept in detail. One of the most obvious flaw is that two sample authors were misspelled on the blurb ( " Vules Verne " instead of " Jules Verne " and " Sir Arthur Conan Doyle " instead of " Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "). It is also noticeable that the English abbreviation for the unit of length ft. foot apparently was automatically converted to " walk ", so some words ending in " foot " instead of "Ft ".