Only the Good Die Young by Joseph Mohr is a role playing game supplement published by Old School Role Playing for use with OSRIC. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result. This is an adventure for characters of levels 1-3.
The supplement is available as a 27 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover, three the front matter and three the Open Game License.
Only the Good Die Young explains that this adventure is written for those not impaired by morality.
Background Information explains that the characters are contacted by a demon who wants them to head to a dwarven mine and recover an artefact called the Gem of Fire.
History of the Gem of Fire gives some details on the artefact.
The Mines of Mandoran gives an overview of the mines and their location.
Game Master Information gives some details on the mine’s location in the author’s setting, as well as random encounters along the way.
Into the Mines of Mandoran has random encounters within the mines themselves.
Key to the Mines of Mandoran covers the locations for the two levels of the mines.
Conclusion to this Adventure wraps up the adventure.
Final Note to the Game Master looks at ways of dissuading the characters from taking over the mine and moving in permanently; they can try, but it probably won’t end well.
The final two pages of content are maps of the mines.
Only the Good Die Young 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 two-column format and some minor errors were noticed. There are a number of stock colour and black and white illustrations. Presentation is okay.
In most ways, this is a fairly standard old school dungeon crawl; the mines have tricks, traps, riddles, designed to get extra treasure, and monsters to combat, and is potentially dangerous. The difference is that the characters are not good aligned, and adventures for such are uncommon. However, with a little bit of work, it would be possible to turn it into an adventure for good characters; some of the foe would need swapping or modifying, but it could be done. Given that it’s also a self-contained mine, it will also be easy enough to drop it into other settings. Only the Good Die Young can be found by clicking here.
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