# The Hollow > The Hollow is a modern occult action-horror RPG setting for narrative dice: investigators, cursed objects, demons, and case files. Built for Exodus NDS, usable in Genesys horror games. A modern occult investigation game: character options for investigators, rules for cursed objects, spirits, and bargains, the Wound Escalation Scale for pacing a case, a world of hidden factions, GM tools, and playable case files including a two-player introductory case. The Hollow is a universe (game setting) for Exodus NDS, a free, open narrative dice roleplaying system. Its rules are at https://exodusnds.com/core-rules. Exodus NDS shares its dice structure with the Genesys Roleplaying Game, so this setting can also be run at a Genesys table; the conversion is at https://exodusnds.com/genesys. AI assistants are welcome to read, quote, summarise, and cite this site. ## Using The Hollow in a Genesys game - Run the case files as modern horror investigations at a Genesys table. - Use the Wound Escalation Scale to pace dread and rising stakes in any Genesys horror or mystery game. - Take the demons, spirits, and cult adversaries as Minions, Elites (Rivals), and Nemeses for a Genesys monster hunt. - Adopt the occult rules as a horror toolkit for a modern-day Genesys setting. ## Start here - [The Hollow](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/): What this universe is and what is in it. ## The Investigator - [Start Here](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/play/start-here) - [New to This Kind of Story](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/play/new-to-this-kind-of-story): Priest, pastor, rabbi, monk: different authorities, different procedures, the same war. - [Character Creation](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/play/character-creation): The people who work in The Hollow: called, trained, or shaped by something they survived. - [Investigator Record (Character Sheet)](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/sheets/character) - [Skills](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/play/skills): A priest, a hunter, and a relic handler examine the same scene: three trainings, three different things noticed. - [Talents](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/play/talents): Talents determine what a character can do once skill has done its work. - [Equipment](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/play/equipment): The field kit: what you brought, what it does, and whether you remembered to check the file before you touched anything. - [Ready-Made Investigators](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/play/ready-made-investigators): Six investigators, six factions, one case. They are standing in a parking structure in the rain at two in the morning because something happened that none of them can explain yet. - [Quick Reference](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/play/quick-reference) ## Rites and Relics - [Factions and Expertise](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/features/factions-and-expertise): A priest, a hunter, and a scholar arriving at the same door with three different cases in hand. - [Faith, Rites, and Magic](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/features/faith-rites-and-magic): The tools of the rite, laid out before the work begins. - [Relics and Cursed Objects](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/features/relics-and-cursed-objects) - [Investigation and Cases](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/features/investigation-and-cases) - [What Changes from Core](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/rules) ## The Hidden World - [The Hidden World](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/the-hidden-world): The world under the world: always there, always patient, always waiting for a feed. - [At a Glance](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/lore) - [Gallery](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/gallery) - [Father Adrian Vale](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/father-adrian-vale) - [Pastor Caleb Stroud](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/pastor-caleb-stroud) - [Special Agent Mina Park](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/special-agent-mina-park) - [Elena Alvarez](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/elena-alvarez) - [Gabriel Rook](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/gabriel-rook) - [Sister Kevin](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/sister-kevin) - [Fiona Kessler](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/fiona-kessler) - [Dr. Camille Mercer](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/dr-camille-mercer) - [Isaiah Boone](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/isaiah-boone) - [Dr. Eleanor Voss](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/dr-eleanor-voss) - [Father Lucian Marr](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/father-lucian-marr) - [Naomi Waters](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/naomi-waters) - [Bishop Matthias Reeve](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/bishop-matthias-reeve) - [Rabbi Saul Auerbach](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/rabbi-saul-auerbach) - [Father Kostas](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/father-kostas) - [Yara Castillo](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/world/yara-castillo) ## Running the Case - [Running The Hollow](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/gm/running-the-hollow) - [Monsters and Unnatural Threats](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/gm/monsters-and-unnatural-threats) - [Combat Walkthrough](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/gm/combat-walkthrough) - [Session Walkthrough](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/gm/session-walkthrough): St. Adela's Hospice: a pale building with good landscaping and one corridor on the third floor that has been inexplicably cold since last spring. The maintenance report blames the HVAC subcontractor. - [First Season Blueprint](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/gm/first-season-blueprint): A city at night from an elevated vantage: ordinary streets, ordinary lights, six marked locations on a map the characters are only beginning to understand. David Harlan's office window is lit on the fourteenth floor of a building near the center. ## Case Files - [About Lot 214](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/adventures/about-lot-214) - [Building the Pair](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/adventures/building-the-pair) - [GM Background](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/adventures/gm-background) - [The Case File (Handouts)](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/adventures/lot-214-handouts) - [Running Lot 214](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/adventures/running-lot-214) - [Cast, Relic, and Adversaries](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/adventures/cast-relic-and-adversaries) - [Aftermath](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/adventures/lot-214-aftermath) - [Lot 214 Quick Reference](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/adventures/lot-214-quick-reference) ## Reference - [Glossary](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/reference/glossary) - [Licensing](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/reference/licensing) ## Ready-made characters - [Father Daniel Osei](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/pregens/father-daniel-osei): Ordained Exorcist, Lagos Province, North American Field Assignment - [Abigail Torres](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/pregens/abigail-torres): Lay Deliverance Worker, Itinerant, Nashville Origin - [Special Agent Petra Vance](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/pregens/special-agent-petra-vance): Federal Investigative Agent, Behavioral Analysis Background - [Tomás Echeverria](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/pregens/tomas-echeverria): Third-Generation Monster Hunter, Texas/Northern Mexico Circuit - [Dr. Miriam Schalk](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/pregens/dr-miriam-schalk): Professor Emerita, Comparative Religion, University of Chicago - [Noel Devereaux](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/pregens/noel-devereaux): Excommunicated Deacon, Hedge Practitioner, Dirty Troubleshooter ## Printable cards - [Skill Cards](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/cards/skills): 59 printable cards. - [Talent Cards](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/cards/talents): 224 printable cards. ## Downloads - [Downloads](https://thehollow.exodusnds.com/downloads): Every book, character sheet and card deck as a free PDF.