History TabletopGame / TheUnofficialHollowKnightRPG

* WhipItGood: Whips are a melee weapon that deal somewhat low damage, but are able to attack at reach and give a penalty to enemies trying to defend themselves against the whip.

IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Pretty much any location related to the Lord of Dust. The place where the Sandwyrm shed its shell is called the Tumor of Dustbarrow and the cactus he currently uses as a base of operations is called the Throne of Thorns, while the lands he conquered were all renamed to something suitably sinister; what was once the bountiful fields where the grasshoppers lived is now the Sallow Garden, the bamboo forest of the cicadas is now the Shattered Forest, and the highlands of the ants is now the Ashen Moor.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: All wyrms possess an innate desire to forge a great civilization, but this is an impossible goal for the Sandwyrm [[WalkingWasteland whose presence spreads madness and death regardless of intent]]. Eventually it shed its skin to take a new form as the Lord of Dust, deciding that if he could not forge his own kingdom, he would steal the kingdoms of others, moving on to the next as each inevitably withered and died from his influence until the entire world is reduced to a barren, lifeless wasteland.

* HyperactiveMetabolism: Certain traits allow a bug to expend Belly to gain some other benefit, such as the Regeneration trait allowing a character to regain Hearts at the cost of Belly, or the Large Stomach trait allowing them to spend Belly in place of Stamina. The Devourer trait doesn't make a bug spend Belly, but instead allows them to regain a point of Heart, Soul, or Stamina when they consume enough flesh or blood from sapient bugs, as well as letting them eat corpses very quickly. This is generally {{Downplayed}} though, as while having a full stomach has several benefits and causes a bug to heal ''faster'', the aforementioned traits are needed to have any kind of instant benefit from food.

* CastFromCalories: Certain traits allow a bug to expend Belly to gain some other benefit, such as the Regeneration trait allowing a character to regain Hearts at the cost of Belly, or the Large Stomach trait allowing them to spend Belly in place of Stamina. The Energize spell is a slightly odd example of this as while it does cost Belly to work, it doesn't need to be the ''caster's'' -- any nearby target, including enemies or the target of the spell's beneficial effects, can be chosen as the source, meaning that it costs ''other people'' calories when the caster uses it.

* CastFromCalories: Certain traits allow a bug to expend Belly to gain some other benefit, such as the Regeneration trait allowing a character to regain Hearts at the cost of Belly, or the Large Stomach trait allowing them to spend Belly in place of Stamina.

* BloodyMurder: The Bloodboil spell causes blood-soaked weapons to burst into flame, making those weapons deal bonus fire damage. It can also be cast directly on a creature to damage them.

* AntiMagic: Bugs with the Spiral Mark trait are able to partially absorb incoming hostile magic.

* SufferTheSlings: Slings are the only type of ranged weapon, though the "sling" category also includes throwing weapons such as darts and boomerangs.

* HypnoticEyes: The Enthrall spell causes a target to fall into a trance, unable to move or act for as long as the caster maintains eye contact. Spending a point of Essence allows the spell to be cast through [[MindControlMusic song]] instead.

* MindControlMusic: The Enthrall spell typically works through [[HypnoticEyes eye contact]], but spending a point of Essence allows the spell to be cast through song instead. This allows the spell to affect creatures who use senses other than vision such as scent or tremorsense, increases the spell's range, and (if the caster is actually good at singing) makes the effect harder to resist.

* TheUndead: Husks are the shells of bugs filled with sand and dust, animated with magic. They have no Hearts, only Shell, and take Shell damage when they would lose Hearts. They can also be "killed" by reducing their Soul score to 0, removing the magic that animates them.
* VampiricDraining: The Bloodsucker trait allows a bug to feed themself by draining vitality from other creatures.

* MagicIsMental: Insight is the stat used for most spellcasting, and it's described as representing the bug's perceptiveness and intellect.

* {{Mana}}: Called "Soul," just like in ''Hollow Knight.'' Soul can be regained by resting, as well as by striking enemies with a melee weapon, and a few Mystic paths add other methods to regain it.

* TheNoseKnows: The Scent trait allows a bug to "see" their surroundings via scent.

* WhiteMage: The Path of Bloom grants a bug magical abilities to heal and defend their allies, with none of the Bloom Arcana being capable of directly damaging a foe.

* {{Mana}}: Called "Soul," just like in ''Hollow Knight.'' Soul can be regained by resting, as well as by striking enemies with a melee weapon, and a few Mystic paths add some other methods to regain it.

* HooksAndCrooks: Hooks are one of the types of melee weapons, and are associated with sneaky, underhanded tactics.

** Path fo the Bloom: The WhiteMage, with abilities themed around nature and healing and spells almost entirely devoted to supporting their allies.

* FertileFeet: Small plants constantly sprout in the footsteps of bugs on the Path of Bloom, giving them free access to small quantities of edible plant matter.

* MagicIsMental: Insight is the stat used for most spellcasting, and is described as representing the bug's perceptiveness and intellect.

* MesACrowd: The Swarm spell allows the caster to split into a number of smaller versions of themself, all able to act independently of one another and each possessing a portion of the caster's resource pools. Overlaps with OneToMillionToOne, as the caster can choose to cast it as a reaction to taking damage, negating that damage at the cost of essence.

* FurryConfusion: Naturally for a setting where most of the people and animals are bugs, you can run into this on ocassion. As an example, Oakshade has a species of unintelligent beetle used as beasts of burden while also having clans of sapient beetles.

* LaResistance: Though the Kingdom of Sidhean has fallen to the Lord of Dust, the ants haven't given up the fight. What's left of them has reorganized into a literally underground resistance movement, hiding in a network of tunnels to shelter themselves from the searing sunlight as they work to undermine their conquerers.

* AdventureFriendlyWorld: The entire point of the setting is to provide a world more suited to TTRPG adventures than Hollownest. The centerpiece is a massive tree inhabited by numerous cultures from enigmatic nomads to ruthless autocrats with a GreatBigLibraryOfEverything in its leaves and an EldritchLocation beneath its roots; while the land beyond the Great Oak has pirates, spirits, witches, monsters, and mysteries aplenty. Not to mention that the region has been thrown into instability due to a desperate war for survival against an EvilOverlord and his armies of twisted BattleThralls, adding even more chaos and conflict in which adventures might take place both in the Oak and outside of it.

* AdventureFriendlyWorld: The entire point of the setting is to provide a world more suited to TTRPG adventures than Hollownest. The centerpiece is a massive tree inhabited by numerous cultures from enigmatic nomads to ruthless autocrats with a GreatBigLibraryOfEverything in its leaves and an EldritchLocation beneath its roots; while the land beyond the Great Oak has pirates, spirits, witches, monsters, and mysteries aplenty. Not to mention that the region has been thrown into instability due to a desperate war for survival due to an ongoing invasion from an EvilOverlord and his armies of twisted BattleThralls, adding even more chaos and conflict in which adventures might take place both in the Oak and outside of it.