Hollow Earth Expedition: Difference between revisions

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
Content added Content deleted
VisualWikitext
mNo edit summary
 
(3 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown)
Line 2: Line 2:
{{quote|''Feeding Nazis to Dinosaurs since 2006.''}}
{{quote|''Feeding Nazis to Dinosaurs since 2006.''}}


Award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designed to simulate pulp novels and old serials. Think ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' meets ''[[The Rocketeer (film)|The Rocketeer]]'' in ''[[Journey to The Center of The Earth]]''. Uses its own dice pool system, Ubiquity, which has been licensed to a couple other games: Desolation, a post-apocalyptic fantasy, and All For One—the Musketeers fight demons.
Award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designed to simulate pulp novels and old serials. Think ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' meets ''[[The Rocketeer (film)|The Rocketeer]]'' in ''[[Journey to the Center of the Earth]]''. Uses its own dice pool system, Ubiquity, which has been licensed to a couple other games: Desolation, a post-apocalyptic fantasy, and All For One—the Musketeers fight demons.


{{Tropelist}}
Setting Contains Examples of:


* [[Auto Doc]]: The ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement had an Auto-Doctor as a possible Weird Science gadget.
* [[Auto Doc]]: The ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement had an Auto-Doctor as a possible Weird Science gadget.
* [[Diesel Punk]]
* [[Dieselpunk]]
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Any character with the Reckless Driver skill in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Any character with the Reckless Driver skill in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: one of the sample characters is a superintelligent chimp who disbelieves in a Surface World.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: one of the sample characters is a superintelligent chimp who disbelieves in a Surface World.
* [[Food Pills]]: Nutrient Pills, a possible Artifact Resource in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Food Pills]]: Nutrient Pills, a possible Artifact Resource in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[For Science!]]
* [[For Science!]]
* [[Ghostapo]]
* [[Ghostapo]]
* [[Great White Hunter]]
* [[Great White Hunter]]
* [[Hollow World]]
* [[Hollow World]]
* [[House System]]: Ubiquity, a dice pool system based on counting evens.
* [[House System]]: Ubiquity, a dice pool system based on counting evens.
* [[Jack of All Trades]]: The jack of All Trades skill in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Jack of All Trades]]: The jack of All Trades skill in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Jet Pack]]: An Artifact Resource in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Jet Pack]]: An Artifact Resource in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
Line 24: Line 24:
* [[Monowheel Mayhem]]: The Wheelbike in the Weird Science chapter of the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Monowheel Mayhem]]: The Wheelbike in the Weird Science chapter of the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.
* [[Mysterious Antarctica]]: played straight with Frozen City of Terror.
* [[Mysterious Antarctica]]: played straight with Frozen City of Terror.
* [[Poison Is Corrosive]]: The ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement mentions an Amazon rain forest wasp which has a sting with venom so caustic it causes 2nd degree burns.
* [[Poison Is Corrosive]]: The ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement mentions an Amazon rain forest wasp which has a sting with venom so caustic it causes 2nd degree burns.
* [[Pulp Magazine]]
* [[Pulp Magazine]]
* [[Raygun Gothic]]
* [[Raygun Gothic]]
Line 38: Line 38:
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Tabletop Games]]
[[Category:Tabletop Games]]
[[Category:Hollow Earth Expedition]]
[[Category:Tabletop Games]]
[[Category:Tabletop Games]]
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Tabletop Games of the 2000s]]

Latest revision as of 17:53, 9 February 2020

Feeding Nazis to Dinosaurs since 2006.

Award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designed to simulate pulp novels and old serials. Think Indiana Jones meets The Rocketeer in Journey to the Center of the Earth. Uses its own dice pool system, Ubiquity, which has been licensed to a couple other games: Desolation, a post-apocalyptic fantasy, and All For One—the Musketeers fight demons.

Tropes used in Hollow Earth Expedition include:


Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth_Expedition?oldid=1758306"