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Hollow World Campaign Setting (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Edward A. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/24/2021 16:49:06

Really cool setting. I like the chapter on immortals. Not the greatest quality I've come to expect frome DTRPG. The quality of the book enhances the readers experience.



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Hollow World Campaign Setting (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Jonas M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/19/2020 07:04:49

Content of this classic setting is excellent but scan quality is horrible and the print book looks really, really bad.



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[2 of 5 Stars!]
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Hollow World Campaign Setting (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by joshua e. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/13/2016 23:05:32

I'm going to give this most of the 5 stars it should have gotten since they only released most of the box set. As several others have pointed out it is missing all of the poster maps that came in the box.



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[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Hollow World Campaign Setting (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Maxwell T. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/30/2012 10:40:52

Interesting setting, but I felt that the "zones" separating the different tech levels were a little too much of an arbitrary plot device, and the whole idea just felt like lazy writing. Other than that one element, this was a cool read, and I can only imagine the reactions from players who had this setting sprung on them back in the day.



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Hollow World Campaign Setting (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by John S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/04/2004 00:00:00

Hollow World was a campaign setting released for Basic D&D some years back. It was a fun campaign. In today's climate of D&D 3.5, many will find it quaint at best. However, I think it remains a great resource, not for D&D, but for pulp era "lost world" games. Since the system is antique, you'd need to adapt all the stats anyway, so I say use it for pulp explorers. <br><br><b>LIKED</b>: It's fun, and it puts little but significant twists on traditional D&D races.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Nothing in particular.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



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[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Hollow World Campaign Setting (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by Bradley S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/15/2004 00:00:00

This is an interesting look at the world within the traditional Dungeons and Dragons world. I like the way that it is laid out and used the print edition for years. I am glad to finally have a portable PDF version of this set.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



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Hollow World Campaign Setting (Basic)
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
by James K. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/29/2003 00:00:00

TSR was always a target for criticism. The industry juggernaut that turned DUNGEONS & DRAGONS into a synonym for roleplaying was rightly criticized for its boneheaded business decisions, and its treatment of the rest of the roleplaying community as the enemy in some kind of twisted, scorched-earth warfare. On the other hand - and this can't be denied, even by TSR's staunchest critics - the company came out with some really cool stuff. Case in point: HOLLOW WORLD.

ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS was the magnet for many roleplayers, but there was once a sizeable audience for TSR's descriptor-less DUNGEONS & DRAGONS line. This game was really more of a linked series of boxed games that began with the "basic" set, moved on to the "expert" set, and so on. These versions of D&D shared more in common than they had differences, but there are still those who swear that the boxed D&D was better than its hardbound counterpart. They may have been right.

DUNGEONS & DUNGEONS (not ADVANCED) had a setting all its own: Mystara, AKA The Known World. It was an extraordinarily detailed world for the period, with enough information published in gazetteers and adventures to keep games going for years, if not decades. But TSR took the Known World just a bit farther by delving...inside. The Known World was hollow, and the first of several outstanding products was the appropriately-titled HOLLOW WORLD, a boxed set now re-released in PDF format.

HOLLOW WORLD is a setting that will drive players and DMs alike wild with its possibilities. Part LAND OF THE LOST, part Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar, HOLLOW WORLD is crammed with opportunities for high adventure. The PDF is 264 pages long, and includes detailed setting information, dozens of NPCs, full-color maps, and more downright cool elements than in any three other campaign settings. HOLLOW WORLD has it all: yellow-skinned, horsemen orcs, pirates, tribal lizard men, Roman- and Egyptian-imperial analogs, dragon-riding elves...the list goes on and on. And what's more is that it all works together.

HOLLOW WORLD is a treasure trove for d20 gamers willing to put the minimal amount of work into converting old D&D stat blocks to Third Edition. Designer Aaron Allston has pretty much moved on to the better-paying world of original fiction, but wrote some terrific roleplaying material in his day. HOLLOW WORLD is his masterpiece. The setting takes all the best elements of the fantastic adventure fiction of the '30s and '40s (dinosaurs, savage men, lost empires) and marries them to the tropes of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS (elves, dwarves, Vance-style magic). It doesn't seem like it ought to make any sense, but it does.

Even divorced from the Known World and run on its own, HOLLOW WORLD is well worth the investment. Almost any kind of adventure can be laid in this setting, and the peculiar, inside-out nature of the world gives fantasy gaming a fantastic feel once again. HOLLOW WORLD is a must-buy.



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