Hollow Earth Expedition Links and Resources

While the Hollow Earth Expedition roleplaying game of pulp adventure is still relatively new on the market, having debuted in July of 2006, there is no seeming lack of websites devoted to the game, its products, and areas of interest to fans of the game. The list of links and on-line resources below is by no means complete, and I am constantly ready, willing and able to update these listings and add any new Hollow Earth Expedition listings to this file of resources. If you know of any new listings that are applicable to this file, or can provide me with any corrections and the like, please send me e-mail.

Hollow Earth Expedition RPG Web Sites

The first place that one should start with for information about the Hollow Earth Expedition rpg is the official Hollow Earth Expedition webpage on the Exile Game Studio website.

Daniel Potter has put up a set of pages, the U-Bomb website, devoted to the Ubiquity and HEX rpg. Some good stuff up there.

Jeff Slemons, one of the fabulous artists for the Hollow Earth Expedition rpg, has his own site that holds some truly terrific artwork and various other graphics.

Hollow Earth Sites

The Hollow Earth: Fact or Fiction website is a fascinating place with an interesting perspective on the subject of the Hollow Earth.

Dennis Crenshaw hosts The Hollow Earth Insider, a website devoted to all manner of information on the Hollow Earth and the various aspects pertaining to the theory and the concept.

Another set of pages dealing with the The Hollow Earth also looks to be quite interesting.

Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Flora/Fauna

The Age of the Megafauna website is truly an impressive site dealing with dinosaurs and other beasties of the time.

The BBC has a very good set of pages in the Science & Nature section pertaining to Prehistoric Life that will be of interest to gamers interested in HEX.

An interesting academic site of pages is the site noted here, that pertains to Prehistoric Cats and Cat-Like Creatures. Fascinating stuff.

The DinoData website is an interesting one that follows the latest information being researched and developed, but does require registration.

The Cryptomundo website has some interesting material on it for those looking for ideas about strange-but-possible beasties . The site also provides a nice example of how a skeptic might attack "evidence" of a Hollow Earth creature.

Another of the weird and wacky sites out there is the American Society for Velociraptor Attack Prevention that has some rather strange, but interesting, stuff on it.

An interesting art site is the dinosaur art gallery of Joe Tucciarone that has some fabulous pieces of work on it. Highly evocative for any GM or player of the HEX rpg.

The Dinosaur Farm is a company specialising in all things dinosaur, and they sell lots of dinosaur miniatures and figures that can be useful for those playing HEX.

Ancient and Lost Civilizations

Graham Hancock's wonderful In Search of the Lost Civilization website is a great place that not only has the breaking news on past civilisations and cultures, but also has some of the most bizarre topics on the message boards there. Highly recommended.

Historical Material: The 1920's and 1930's

This wonderful site deals with the subject of Women's History, 1920's and 1930's, and is a good source of information on the subject.

Paul Romine has a pretty good site called 1930 to 1939 that has all manner of material on it, with stuff on books, architecture, fashion and fads, and all manner of other material. Highly recommended.

Let's talk about food... The Los Angeles Public Library has a marvellous set of Menu Collections. On that page, type "193*" into the Date field, and enter. You'll find all sorts of wonderful menus.

Some other period menus can be found at the the Culinary Institute of America's Conrad Hilton Library (this link is specific to the Rainbow Room, but there are others there as well).

Another interesting link is that of the Tutt Library's Colorado Menus Collection which has menus for various Colorado restaurants dating back to the late 1800's to the mid-1900's. Good stuff, and lots of interesting food!

Interestingly, the New Haven Railroad has a wonderful set of pages devoted to their services in the 1930's, and this includes the Children's Menu for their railway dining car. You can also find some other interesting links to pages at the bottom of that page.

The New York Food Museum's Restaurants & Diners website has a series of menus from all sorts of restaurants in the 1930's and so forth on this page. Highly recommended.

Another interesting site is the New Steamship ConsultantsOcean Liner Menus webpage, where there are no menus listed, but you can order various old ocean liner menus at reasonable prices.

Here are some specific menus to browse. Another good link for a food menu from the 1930's can be found Blane's Cafe for February 8th, 1931. Some interesting stuff here. Here's the link for the 1930's menus for Bahr's Landing Seafood Restaurant and Marina for the time period.

At the AsiaRecipe.com Food Timeline page, you can check out all manner of developments of foods and specific dishes from various periods of history. The 1930s section is small, but quite interesting.

The Silent Movie Multiplex is a website that has links to various sites specialisng in the Silent Movies of old, and has lots of potential for HEX gamers and GMs alike.

The Jazz Age Slang website is perfect for the slang of the 1920's and 1930's, and will be quite useful for both GMs and players alike.

For those interested in the music of the 1920's and 1930's, the wonderful Dismuke's 1920's and 1930's Electrical Recordings page has terrific Real Audio recordings of stuff from the time period. Very, very cool, and highly recomended.

Female character types and the like can always be a problem in the course of HEX games, and so this link to Women's History - The 1920's and 1930's should be useful to folks. Just to put things into perspective about historical females of the period, here's links to material about Hollywood legend and girl genius Hedy Lamarr.

The Mininova Pulp Art Collection website has a superb set of the vintage Pulp Magazine covers that iws large, and very nice. Be warned, it's large at some 27.3 Mb.

The Picture History website page, specifically this one for the 1930s and 1940s, has a wonderful collection of photos from the time period, especially from everyday walks of life. Very useful for the GM who wants to get a feel for what the normal Joe and Jane were like, and players will find some useful stuff here as well.

The Rails and Trails page of Transportation History Sources has some interesting material on rail travel, including train timetables, topographic maps, transportation maps, and other materials that will be useful to players and GMs alike.

The Golden Age of Aviation website offers some insight into the early days of air flight, and has some good photos and a bit of inspiration for the HEX GM and player alike.

For those players and GMs who are tired of American Great War veteran characters, check out the H.M.S. Falcon website for ideas on other types of characcters along these lines. Good resource.

The Popular Baby Names website of the U.S. Social Security Administration is a place to get information and the like for the most popular names for children in any given decade. The link takes you to the set for the 1930's.

Other Sites of Interest

Bill and Sue-On Hillman's ERBzine is the official Edgar Rice Burroughs tribute and weekly webzine site, and is chock full of stuff that will provide for hours of reading material that will be useful to those who run HEX.

There are several links on Amazons that can be found on the internet. The first is the Wikipedia entry on Amazons, that is a good basic source, and can lead to others. Another excellent site is the Greek Mythology site section on Amazons. Finally, an excellent resource can be found on the Encyclopedia Mythica about the Warrior Women.

The Strange Nation website from Down Under provides some interesting material on their "Weird Journey", and could inspire several adventures for the creative HEX GM.

The Museum of Retro Technology is a fascinating site that holds all manner of wacky and off-beat inventions and technologies that can be easily adapted for the HEX rpg.

The The Explorers Club is a real life club that is based out of New York, but would make for an excellent sponsor for an expedition into the Hollow Earth.

The Guide to Records of Expeditions is a list of the Smithsonian Expeditions from 1878 to 1917, and can serve as a wonderful resource and set of ideas for HEX scenarios and the like.

A wonderful page on the tramp steamer, the Maui Pomare, can be found here, complete with maps of the interior. Nice reference for the game.

The Legendary Times website is one that is full of material about ancient astronauts, UFOs, Ancient Mysteries, and other controversial material, and may well be a goldmine of ideas for the HEX GM.

The Decoding Nazi Secrets webpage offers a tutorial on basic cryptology, and offers a virtual Enigma machine, that could be quite useful for game purposes.

A useful link of sorts is an Exchange Rate site that allows you to find out what the U.S> dollar was worth against other world-wide currencies for any historical period.

An excellent website is The Newspaper Clipping Generator, which allows you to create authentic looking newspaper clippings and the like for your games.

Scott Adam Dilbert's the Golden Days of Radio website is a marvellous place where one can pick up CDs of all manner of Golden Age radio works in MP3 format for very reasonable prices. I've bought a few of his stuff in the past, and it is very much worthwhile.

Barry Crawford, aka The Clay Guy, has a magnificent website where you can purchase all sorts of resin castings of characters, people, and stuff that will be of use for anyone in a HEX campaign or thinking of running one.

Hollow Earth Expedition RPG Mailing List

The official Hollow Earth Expedition forums, hosted by the folks at Exile Game Studio, are an excellent source of information on all things HEX .

There is a rather nice Hollow Earth Expedition RPG mailing list. The mailing list is completely separate from Exile Game Studio, and may prove useful to new players and GMs to voice opinions, complaints, ideas and questions to one another. To subscribe to the mailing list, send blank e-mail to HollowEarthExile-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

Note that the message must be blank, although it doesn't matter what you put in the Subject line of the post. There will be a verification notice sent to you, along with a request for authorization notice that you'll have to respond to.

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