The Hollow West
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The Hollow West is a role-playing game set in a Wild West at the centre of the Hollow Earth.
The world is hollow¸ and deep within the Earth's depths is a lost world where dinosaurs still live. After the Spanish Conquest of Central America¸ the Aztec survivors escaped here and re-established their empire. Native Americans¸ displaced from their lands by the white man¸ have arrived more recently¸ and begun to set up hidden communities. This settlement¸ in turn¸ has led the European settlers in America here. Finding gold and gems¸ a promise of more has caused a new gold rush and a new wild frontier. Every day¸ the new Great Subterranean Railway line brings new settlers to New Texas.
Players take on the role of cowboys¸ gunslingers¸ academics¸ Native Americans¸ and even occultists all looking for adventure on the edges of civilisation¸ in the wondrous and vast unknown of the Hollow Earth in the year 1895 AD.
In this book¸ we present complete game. There are rules for character generation¸ how to play¸ and details of this fantastic new Wild West. There are details of the different factions present¸ along with the geography of the Hollow Earth¸ supernatural beasts and a complete introductory scenario.
The game uses Fortune System is a light version of the Fate rules¸ somewhere between Fate Accelerated and Fate Core in complexity.
The book is 118 pages long in softcover A5 format. Like Hunters of Alexandria before it¸ it is designed to be read quickly and easily absorbed¸ with an introductory adventure and premade characters which means it can be easily picked up and played.