Captain's Log

A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Captain’s Log

Captain’s Log 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 22 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.

Captain's LogThe opening paragraphs explain that a shipping company in the Sonora sector – though not stated, the adventure is set in the Frontiers of Space – has been suffering an unusually high number of losses from a variety of causes and an insurance agent for the company that insures the ships wants the characters to investigate a recent loss that she thinks isn’t covered by the policy. She has the log from the missing ship.

Patron has details on the agent.

Complications are various unknown factors and potential problems.

Locating the Sea Witch explains that the ship is easy enough to find.

The Sea Witch details the various locations on the ship.

Captain’s Log Entries (Handout) is the log to give to the players.

Nosferatu has details on the creature on the ship responsible for its failure to arrive.

Methods Available for Dealing with the Creature explains what things available can be used to kill it.

Mission Completion Objectives are what’s needed to succeed.

The final two pages of content have colour maps of the ship.

Captain’s Log 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 adequate.

As is clear from the Nosferatu section, the creature onboard the ship is a vampire. Players will probably realise this too, when they read the handout, and even if they don’t then, exploring the ship gives more clues that this is what they are dealing with. Of course, they may end up dismissing the idea that there’s a vampire in a science fiction setting, which is perhaps a flaw with the adventure; vampires and science fiction, though not unheard of, are an uncommon combination. Captain’s Log is an adventure with a bit of an unusual twist and it can be found by clicking here.


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