History TabletopGame / HollowEarthExpedition

* GiantSpider: One type of monster {{PC}}s can encounter inside the Hollow Earth are giant meat-eating arachnids that are 10 feet long (not including the legs). They hunt like normal spiders, injecting a paralyzing poison with their bite and cocooning the prey to eat later.

* MamaBear: Main rules sample adventure. When the {{PC}}s first arrive in the Hollow Earth they will encounter a herd of ''Triceratops'', including a mother and her child. If the {{PC}}s get too close the mother will charge them, and if they attack the child she will become enraged.

* FighterMageThief: A glorious subversion. Due to the way how Ubiquity is designed and calculated, it prevents characters from being pigeonholed and locked in specific bracket. Even the archetypes that the game uses are more of informative than a class-like compartment to put characters into, and the main rules explicitly state (with an example) that people can make widely different characters within the same archetype without much issue.

** Putting a single point into broad utility skills like Driving, Athletics, Survival and similar, regardless of who the character was during char-gen or evolves into. This prevents the -2 penalty for unskilled checks and allows them to deal with lesser obstacles when suddenly the situation calls for it or to simply stand a chance to even ''try'.

* BlownAcrossTheRoom: If the damage dealt by the attack exceeds Strength of the target, they are sent flying back. This is particularly useful when having a dramatic battle at a cliffside or when [[GoodOldFisticuffs using your fists]].

* WeakButSkilled: Talent "Calculated Attack" allows to use your Intelligence instead of any other stat normally requires by specific skill, thus applying smarts to stuff like fencing or gunslinging. The Talent can easily transform any given egghead character into a highly-skilled combatant, especially due to how cost-efficient it is.

* BeastMan: The entire slew of them, first only hinted at, but by ''Mysteries of the Hollow Earth'', introduced with stats and even charges rules, including even unique Talents for different species. Other than those listed below, the expansion provides a set of rules to crank out any other species the game master or players might encounter in their games.

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Played with. On one hand, scientific skills cost as much as everything else, so trying to branch out too much during char-gen can lead to a MasterOfNone situation. On the flipside, there are rules for skill synergy: any related skill with the ''rating'' of 4 (so Stat + related Skill) provides a +2 bonus to a primary tested skill[[note]]Ironically, this can suddenly elevate a character with just [[MasterOfNone 1 point in 6-10 different skills]] and [[UnskilledButStrong 3 Intelligence]] into a hyper-competent specialist, despite each individual skill being utter crap[[/note]]. Thus a particularly science-oriented character can easily use skill synergies to still qualify as a polymath. And there is, of course, nothing preventing players from spending experience later on to further branch out, offering a continuous benefit from learning as many Science and Academics skills.

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Played with. While a variety of scientific and academic skills require buying direct specialisations in a given field, technically preventing this trope from happening, during char-gen each specialisation costs 0.5 (skills are 1:1) points per level and during play, it's cheaper to buy specialisations than increasing skills. Since that makes specialisations incredibly cheap, a particularly science-oriented character can easily chalk up 4 or even more completely different fields to a respectable level. And there is, of course, nothing preventing players from spending experience later on to further branch out. Various other rules also require or at least highly encourage skill synergies, meaning there is a continuous benefit from learning as many Science and Academics skills.

* PointBuildSystem: Char-gen operates on a point-buy basis. You get 15 points for Stats, then 15 points for Skills on a one-to-one exchange rate. Then either a Talent or a Resources (an equivalent of 15 experience points) and, in the end, 15 ''[[DiminishingReturnsForBalance experience]]'' points to use whenever the player likes (so additional Stats, Skills or another Talent[=/=]Resource).

* NonCombatEXP: The game explicitly doesn't provide ''any'' experience directly from combat. It also doesn't provide any reward for theatrics, making in the rules a very clear distinction between role-playing your character and acting in-character[[note]]Those, however, ''can'' be rewarded with Style Points, at least to a certain degree[[/note]]. Instead, it has a system similar to ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'', where experience points are delivered on the basis of characters achieving their goals, learning something new about themselves or the world, or having life-changing experiences[[note]]So getting into a gunfight as a bookish researcher ''can'' be included, just not for the standard reasons how RPG games reward combat[[/note]], along with a single point for mere participation. You can get no more than 5 points (one for each category) and no less than 1 - and even the most seasoned character should be able to score 2-3 points on a regular basis. In practical terms, the system prevents PowerCreep, while also alleviating EarlyGameHell: you will be able to simply score more points early on into adventuring.

* NobleSavage: Supplement ''Mysteries of the Hollow Earth''. There are entire tribes of this character type in the Hollow Earth. They are regal and wise, respecting nature and trying to maintain the ecological balance of the area where they live.

* JackOfAllTrades: The Jack of All Trades Talent in the ''Secrets of the Surface World'' supplement.

* BrutalBrawl: ZigZagged. On one hand, default umarmed combat (and its aptly named skill, Brawl) is explicitly non-lethal punch-out to simply knock your targets down with a few punches. On the other, with the right opponents, it can reach the point of the infamous ''Film/TheyLive'' brawl, where neither of the fighters will go down nor be capable of knocking the other out, leading to an extended, brutal punch-out. And all of that without even adding how changed unarmed combat can be when at least one combatant has the a Talent allowing to deal lethal damage instead or the Martial Arts skill from ''Secrets of the Surface World''.

* BlowGun: One of the favourite weapons of [[LizardFolk lizardmen]], especially those that can't spit poison on their own. The weapon itself does damage depending on the toxin the darts were covered with, ranging from a mild nuisance to a death sentence. What makes blowguns special is the fact they ''always'' deal the fixed damage on hit from the toxin used to coat the darts, rather than using leftover successes from the attack roll - making it in the same harder to hit (no bonus dice from the weapon itself), but dealing very high and consistent damage when the hit lands. It is also possible to use them as an improvised delivery system for {{Tranquillizer Dart}}s, where they will in turn deal non-lethal damage, capabe of knocking down the target.

** Another handy effect of the large amount of damage shotguns deal is being easily qualified for knockback rules, since a weapon with 4 damage fixed to itself is likely to deal more damage than random {{Mook}}'s strength, [[BlownAcrossTheRoom sending them flying]]. Alll while suffering no penalties in point-blank range, thus making them excellent when dealing with wild animals, BeastMan or restless natives.

* TheTeamBenefactor: One of the example characters from the core rulebook is a "dying moneyman", who propped up the whole expedition in the hopes of finding a cure for TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed he has. Other than that, it is usually handled as a Resource, in two distinct flavours:

''Hollow Earth Expedition'' is an award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designed to simulate pulp novels and old serials. Think ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' meets ''Film/TheRocketeer'' in ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''. Uses its own dice pool system, Ubiquity, which has been licensed to several other games: ''TabletopGame/{{Desolation}}'', a post-apocalyptic fantasy,''All For One''--the Musketeers fight demons, ''TabletopGame/Space1889'', ''Leagues of Adventure''--general Victorian adventures with options for steampunk or supernatural horror, and ''Quantum Black''--modern day corporate monster hunters.