Body Parts by Jospeh 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 21 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 illegally harvested body parts are becoming a serious problem and the characters are approached by the Sonoran Interstellar Police – the adventure is set in the Frontiers of Space – to help infiltrate and destroy one smuggling nest.
Patron has details on the employer.
Complications are things that are not known or which can go wrong.
The Noble has details on someone who is helping them infiltrate the smugglers’ base.
Hakuir III has brief details on the planet where the base is located.
Encounters in the Hakuir System has a d6 table of encounters.
Encounters Near the Smugglers Caves has a d6 table of encounters.
Encounters in the Smugglers Caves has a 2d6 table of encounters.
The Smuggler’s Caves covers the location.
Retaliation by the Cartel is the chance of the cartel behind the operation discovering the characters’ involvement and their response.
Roster of Smugglers is a 3d6 table of NPCs.
Security Bot has details on this.
Androids has details on these.
Roster of Prisoners is a 2d6 table of these.
Smuggler Vessels has details on their ships.
Mission Completion Objectives explains that these are to destroy the base and kill as many of the smugglers as possible.
The final two pages of content are maps of the planet and caves.
Body Parts 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 maps and covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is okay.
There is a common problem in that the NPCs have too many stats, when a mere two or three would have sufficed in most cases. The adventure also has a potential side-effect for characters, is that they may annoy a criminal syndicate who will attempt to have them killed; only once going by the description, but more attempts would be likely. Other than that, it’s a straightforward mission of enter some caves and kill all the bad guys then destroy the caves themselves. Body Parts can be found by clicking here.
Leave a Reply