Hollows RPG Special Edition

Artikelnummer: 92393
GTIN: 9781913032579
Kategorie: Various Roleplaying Games
Hersteller: Rowan, Rook & Decard

Everything you need to play is in the core book: rules, setting, and character creation of course, but also in-depth advice on how to get the most out of running and playing Hollows. That includes a chapter of Entities, two Hollows ready for you to run, and another entire chapter dedicated to designing your own Hollows and their Lords. Plus we’ve gouged a lot of tips out of the Rowan, Rook and Decard collective game design brain and distributed them throughout the book for you.

Hollows is a new tabletop roleplaying game from the team who brought you Spire, Heart, DIE, and Eat the Reich. If you already know Rowan, Rook and Decard's games you’ll recognise the characteristic intensity and clever storytelling; this time we’re combining it with a really clever tactical combat engine that delivers the best boss fights in TTRPGs.

If you don’t know us, welcome. If you like dark fantasy with just a little crack of hope, or you’re a Soulsborne fan, or you’ve always wanted to do climactic TTRPG battles better, read on.

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If you don’t know us, welcome. If you like dark fantasy with just a little crack of hope, or you’re a Soulsborne fan, or you’ve always wanted to do climactic TTRPG battles better, read on.

The Game:

Hollows is a tactical powerhouse of a TTRPG that’s both easy to learn and satisfying to master. It’s based around a simple D20 mechanic where actions can fail, succeed, or succeed brilliantly. Failure is always interesting – it exposes the Hunter to greater risk, creating moments for other players to step in, support, and help hold the line.

Character creation and advancement is simple but powerful. The Weapons a Hunter chooses to wield and the abilities they select for them open up hundreds of possible character builds. Players select new abilities with every kill and choose which ones to make permanent when they baptise themselves in the blood of a Hollow’s Lord.

Gameplay moves elegantly between exploring a Hollow’s poisoned world – rules-light and roleplay-heavy – and many-v-1 tactical boss fights unlike anything you’ve seen in a TTRPG. Fights are fast but easy to follow, and players quickly get into the swing of planning their tactics and adjusting them as the battle intensifies. Hollows’ combat keeps the player characters right at the heart of the action, with the battlefield changing and developing with every action. It encourages players to work together, paying close attention to each other’s moves and devising clever, cooperative strategies to take down Entities far bigger and stronger than they are.

Designed to echo video games like Dark Souls, death is expected and intended. Dying slows a character down and gives the Hollow more opportunities to work against them, but it also gives a Hunter a chance to come back stronger.

You asked for more details on how Hollows plays, and we’re happy to provide.

Hollows combat happens on a circular grid. The Entity that Hunters are battling will always be in the middle of the grid. The Hunters choose whether to fight it up close or at range, or hang back in the support area out of harm’s way (but with limited ability to affect the Entity, too). Action revolves around the Entity – literally. It can turn or move, repositioning the Hunters in relation to it, so that a Hunter who was comfortably out of harm’s way on its flank is suddenly front and centre and very much in danger. Positioning matters: Entities, like Hunters, have different attacks that affect different areas of the grid.

Having the Entity’s attention, or being directly under its gaze, is dangerous. Hollows models that danger with Threat: the more Threat an area has, the more dangerous it is to be there. Entities use Threat to boost their attacks during their own turn, or interrupt Hunters’ turns with extra damage. Some Weapons attract extra Threat or allow Hunters to disperse it – there’s nothing on a battlefield that a Hunter can’t interact with in varied and interesting ways. Hunters can learn abilities so that even when they miss with an attack, something interesting happens.

Different Weapons’ abilities synergise well, opening up opportunities for Hunters between their own turns. One character might come charging out of cover, saving one of their companions in the process, or make an extra manoeuvre as a result of someone else’s action. The more players pay attention to each other’s actions, the more they find themselves able to build interesting combos and benefit from each other’s choices.

Meanwhile, the GM builds a strategy based on what attacks an Entity will use, in what order, and where on the grid it will focus. Lure Hunters into dangerous positions, shock players with brutal assaults, and force them to choose between all-out attacks and cautious wars of attrition. Make them decide whether to save their dying companions or see whether they can take the Entity down before it kills again.

When Weapons end an Entity’s life, they grow stronger, giving their wielder new abilities, which are temporary - they last until the end of a Hollow, meaning players can explore different builds, switching out options based on what interests them or what sounds useful for their immediate future – which is just as well, because the only certainty in a Hollow is that the final fight, against the Hollow’s Lord, will be harder than everything that’s come before.

Want to know more? Grant's helpfully recorded a 10-minute video that shows you exactly how to play Hollows, and why it isn't like any TTRPG you've played before.

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