Shrine of Duhana by Joseph Mohr is a role playing game supplement published by Old School Role Playing for use with Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. 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 17 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover, three the front matter and three the Open Game License.
The opening paragraphs give some details on the Cult of Duhana, an evil cult, and that the characters have heard of a possible entrance to a local shrine rumoured to have a gold idol.
Dungeon Master Notes explains that this is an adventure for 4-6 characters of 2nd-3rd level. Most of the encounters feature low level undead. It gives some general details for the rooms in the shrine and that all the monsters are those from the 5th Edition Monster Manual.
Random Encounters Within the Shrine is a random encounter table, explaining when it should be rolled on.
Key to the Shrine of Duhana details the shrine itself; a typical enough dungeon with monsters, puzzles, traps and treasure.
The final page of content has a map of the shrine.
Shrine of Duhana 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 black and white and colour illustrations. Presentation is okay.
This is a standard dungeon crawl which the characters can explore; the main difference is that it is potentially highly dangerous for 2nd level characters, especially if they lack any means of effectively dealing with the undead. Fortunately, the puzzles are only used for gaining more treasure, so the adventure won’t be derailed if they are failed. Shrine of Duhana can be found by clicking here.
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