Chaos Rift 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 from DriveThruRPG as a 15 page Pay What You Want PDF. Two pages are the front and rear covers, three the front matter and three the Open Game License.
The opening paragraphs explain that the characters are approached by a university professor who wants them to look into some reports of ships going missing near a planet in a border subsector of the Sonora sector; though this isn’t stated, the adventure is set in the Frontiers of Space. There have also been reports of strange occurrences and he wants the characters to look into this.
Patron gives stats for the patron.
Complications are the various things that could go wrong; one being that the patron suspects what is actually happening and neglects to share this information with the characters.
The Chaos Rift Effect details how the spatial anomaly known as the Chaos Rift affects those within its area of effect.
Other Ships Which Are in the Area of Effect lists nine ships in the region. Each of these are described, with details on what it is, damage suffered, any living crew and any potential salvage.
Mission Completion is how to successfully complete the adventure.
Chaos Rift 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. Apart from the covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is adequate.
This is a fairly simple adventure in concept; travel to an area, discover what’s there and return. It is made rather more difficult by the number of, often armed, ships that are also in the area, crewed by people of now varying degrees of sanity and the characters themselves are going to risk losing their own grip on sanity the longer they stay there. There’s quite a bit of potential salvage, but it’s going to be difficult and dangerous getting it. If the patron bothered to be a little more honest, perhaps the characters would have a better chance of resisting the effects. Chaos Rift is a potentially dangerous adventure made more difficult by the patron neglecting to disclose what they suspect and it can be found by clicking here.
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