Infection by Jospeh 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 13 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 after leaving a starport the characters start noticing issues with their ship, which get worse.
Complications are things that are not known or which could go wrong.
The First Indications has a 2d6 table of minor, non-fatal things that can go wrong with the ship.
The Second Wave is another 2d6 table of issues, which are more serious than the initial ones.
The Third Wave is another 2d6 table of issues, which are more serious and could definitely be fatal.
Introduction of New Issues explains when new problems start to show.
Solutions has some possible ways the characters could fix the overall problem, though it’s stated this isn’t an exclusive list.
Mission Completion Objectives boils down to survival.
Infection in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and though comparatively short has 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 covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is adequate.
This is a comparatively simple yet potentially dangerous that can easily be dropped in just about anywhere, as long as the characters have a ship or, possibly, are on one that starts suffering the same problems. If the latter was the case, they would be inclined to try and find a solution just to survive what’s happening. They just need to figure out what’s causing the problems and how to fix the issue. Infection is a decent little adventure and it can be found by clicking here.
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