Sanctuary 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 33 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 the characters are summoned to see a local government official who wants them to find a pirate and bring her back in chains.
Patron gives details on the patron.
Complications are things that are not known or could be problems; one is that the pirate is currently on a pirate world over the border in the neighbouring sector – though not stated, the adventure is set in the Frontiers of Space.
The Target gives details on the pirate.
Random Encounters in Space in the Sanctuary Star System are the chances of random encounters and what pirate ship will be encountered.
Random Encounters in or Around the Village are those encounters on the ground.
Random Events in Town are what may happen.
Sanctuary gives details of the various locations in the settlement.
The Tunkren gives details on the native alien species that has been enslaved by the pirates.
The Pirate Ships has a roster of pirate craft that can be encountered.
Roster of Potential Random Human Encounters on Sanctuary are human NPCs to encounter.
The Tunkren Roster is similar but for the natives.
Sanctuary Patrol Roster are human guards to encounter.
A Bountiful Place explains that there are lots of potential bounties, if proof can be gathered.
Mission Completion Objectives explains that the primary mission is capturing the pirate the characters were hired to find.
The final page of content is a map of the village.
Sanctuary 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 map and covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is adequate.
The supplement has a common problem in those from this publisher; there are pages and pages of NPC stats when most of the NPCs have only minor differences; it would have been better to have one or two broad stat blocks followed by individual ones for important characters.
The mission is potentially dangerous. The characters have to infiltrate a pirate system with lots of pirates and a fair few pirate ships around, kidnap someone – killing is a definite second place option – and escape alive. There are a lot of things that could go wrong. Sanctuary is an okay adventure and it can be found by clicking here.
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