A Most Fortunate Discovery 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 17 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 an alien structure was found by a mining company on the edge of the Sonora sector – the adventure is set in the Frontiers of Space – and the characters are contacted by a representative of the company who wants the structure exploring.
Patron has details on the employer.
Complications are things that aren’t known or which can go wrong.
X-231B has some details on the planet.
The Aliens Who Once Built This Tower has some details on the ancient aliens behind its construction and what they did.
The Science Tower describes the tower’s outside and entry, random encounters inside and the various locations. One of the events is that the reactor starts to fail, despite having worked for countless years before the characters arrive.
A Mystery explains why the builders left, which the characters are not going to find out.
New Specimens covers the living creatures that can be found in stasis.
Patrol Robot covers this.
Alien Androids covers the two types of androids found.
Alien Maps has some information on what can be found in the databases.
Mission Completion explains that visiting everywhere in the facility fulfils the job.
The final page of content has a map of the facility.
A Most Fortunate Discovery in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough different sections that these would have been useful. Navigation is okay. The text maintains a single column format and some minor errors were noticed. Bar the map and covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is okay.
This is a simple enough adventure; head to a planet, gain access to a structure and explore it. There are dangers within the place, though nothing excessively so. The reactor potentially melting down when the characters arrive is an overdone trope and should probably be altered. A Most Fortunate Discovery can be found by clicking here.
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