A Fork in the Road by Joseph Mohr is a role playing game supplement published by Old School Role Playing for use with OSRIC. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result.
The supplement is available as a 24 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. Two pages are the front and rear covers, three the front matter and three the Open Game License.
The opening paragraphs explain that a monastery was carefully placed for defence, though on the borderlands, and was eventually overrun.
For the Dungeon Master explains that the adventure can be placed anywhere, preferably in borderland regions away from towns and cities, and is intended for six characters of 3rd to 5th level.
Rumors has a table of ten rumours, some true, some false and one a bit of both.
Random Encounters on the Way to the Ruins has a d12 table of encounters, including dragons that are potentially very dangerous for a party of this level.
Random Encounters Within the Ruins has an encounter table for the surface, which is supposed to be a d4 table of encounters but three of the entries are missing, and a d4 table for the dungeon.
Key to the Ruins covers the various locations.
New Monsters has a couple of new monsters.
New Magic Items has some new items.
The final page of content has a map of the ruins.
A Fork in the Road in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough different sections that these would have been useful. Navigation is okay. The text maintains a single column format and some errors were noticed. Bar the maps and covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is okay.
This is a pretty standard dungeon expedition; head to the surface ruins, explore them, enter the dungeon and deal with any creatures in order to find any treasure. The random encounters on the way to the ruins are potentially highly dangerous, though, as mentioned. A Fork in the Road can be found by clicking here.
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