Lost Contact 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 20 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 small mining corporation in the Sonora sector – though not specified, the adventure is set in the Frontiers of Space – has lost contact with an operation on a moon, where they had a license to excavate iron. The characters are hired to discover what happened.
Patron gives details on the person doing the hiring.
Complications are various things that can go wrong or which the characters haven’t been told; in this instance, the miners were doing something they hadn’t bothered to tell anyone else about.
The Sanix explains these are intelligent aliens that live deep within the moon, who were disturbed by the miners and struck out at them.
The Third Moon of the Nanilav System gives an overview of it.
The Yulii Federation are the group that the mining company was given a license by. They are sending their own team to investigate.
The Razor Minor Corporation gives some details on the corporation hiring the characters.
Encounters in the Infested Hanger is when to roll for random encounters.
Key to the Infested Hanger is a key to the location.
The Sanix Roster is stats for the aliens.
The Yulii Team Roster has stats for this team.
Mission Completion Objectives has many different ways the characters could complete the mission.
Negotiations with the Sanix covers the use of diplomacy to solve the problems.
The final page of content is a map.
Lost Contact in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough different sections that they would have been useful. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a single column format and some minor errors were noticed. There no illustrations bar the map and cover. Presentation is adequate.
Some of the NPCs are given too many different stats when less would do; a common problem. There’s also no explanation as to how the aliens are living within an utterly lifeless moon, especially when it’s stated they have no interest in star travel. The adventure itself is decent enough, and there are a variety of different options in which players could end it. Lost Contact can be found by clicking here.
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