Wail of the Banshee 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.
The supplement is available as a 30 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover, three the front matter and three the Open Game License.
Background Information gives some details on an adventurer who became evil after finding an artefact and was killed a few months back She was buried in a cemetery near her home and recently there have been happenings at the cemetery which the locals want investigating.
Game Master Information gives some details on what has become of the adventurer. It explains that this is an adventure for characters of levels 4-7 and the presence of undead means a cleric is useful. It also mentions that the adventure is set in the author’s game world.
Key to the Morgoff Cemetery covers the various locations in the cemetery itself.
Random Encounters Below the Surface has some random encounters.
Dungeon Level One and Dungeon Level Two cover the two subterranean levels, with various encounters, riddles, fortunately just to get more treasure, and traps.
New Magical Items has the new magic items. The artefact that turned the adventurer to evil is one of these, but has no powers described.
New Monsters has some new creatures.
The final three pages of content have maps of the cemetery and the dungeon.
Wail of the Banshee 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.
This adventure is one that is easy enough to drop into another setting; all that’s really needed is a village with a cemetery, and that is something easy enough to find. The dungeon itself is a pretty standard monster crawl with various tricks and traps. The adventure is potentially dangerous, especially if the party isn’t equipped to take on undead. Wail of the Banshee can be found by clicking here.
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