hollows

Kind of a belated Character Creation Challenge post here, huh? ANYway. I was reading through the Hollows corebook after this weekend’s game, thinking about the Priest pregen, and I noticed that the stats on the preview seemed a little off in the low direction. I also had the aforementioned dissonance with optimal tactics for the two weapons. So I ran through character generation, mostly for the sake of checking the math but also to see if there were any easy tweaks I’d make if I wanted to play Caleb in a campaign. (Which I do, of course.) ...

I had the pleasure of playing in a one-shot of Hollows, the roleplaying game of tactical combat in a poisoned England lookalike from Rowan, Rook, and Decard. Yet another winner from Chris Taylor, Grant Howitt, and a very capable team. The crowdfunding campaign is more informative than the product page, so read that too if you’re curious. But basically you’re playing doomed Hunters who might as well spend the rest of their lives delving into Hollows, places where the world has encysted around horrible formerly human monsters, beating up those monsters, and bathing in their life force. The only significant fights are party vs. single boss creature, and there’s a lot of shifting around the positioning map, thinking about when to use special abilities, and getting seriously hurt. My kind of game. ...