A New Dawn by Joseph Mohr is a role playing game supplement published by Old School Role Playing for use with Cepheus Engine. 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 23 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 that a prototype wormhole exploration vessel that disappeared following its wormhole collapse has just been discovered again close to that location in the Sonora sector – the adventure is set in the Frontiers of Space. The ship is not answering hails and the characters are hired to investigate and rescue the crew if they are still alive.
Patron has details on the employer.
Complications has things that can go wrong or which aren’t known.
The Survivors briefly explains what has happened to the crew.
The Cerebus details the ship and its locations. There are also various clues as to what happened.
The Sub Sector briefly details the subsector the ship went to, a very barren one.
The Wormhole describes the chance it may collapse.
Lachnelly details the planet the survivors are on and the important locations.
Signs of Danger are warnings that can be discovered about the planet’s main hazard.
The Spider Like Creatures details the main danger. Something that feeds on meat on a planet that apparently lacks life.
The Invisible Alien details another being.
The Alien Wreckage is a crashed alien ship on the planet.
Lost Scientist details the surviving one from the Cerebus.
Crew Members covers the surviving crew.
Expedition Diary of Rosalie Cohen has some important entries from a diary.
Mission Completion explains that the characters will be paid for the successful parts of the mission.
The final four pages of content have a world map, a sector map and two decks for the Cerebus.
A New Dawn in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough different sections that these would have been useful. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a single column format and some minor errors were noticed. Bar the maps and covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is okay.
This is a straightforward enough mission in that the characters have to investigate a ship and search for its crew. However, the chance the wormhole might collapse is a significant problem. If that were to happen, the characters would be stranded a long way away with no means of getting home and the GM would then have problems. Far better for the wormhole not to collapse at all, and introduce other problems, such as ship damage during the journey. A New Dawn can be found by clicking here.
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