Castle in the Clouds 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 27 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover, three the front matter and three the Open Game License.
Game Master Notes explains that the adventure was written for convention gaming and with 5-7 characters of levels 5-7. Having gnomes and dwarves in the party can help. Characters should choose their spells ahead and there are no magic items available for sale in the town; they will be given extended duration potions of flying. A cloud has appeared over the town of Freeport and it isn’t moving. Flying creatures are raiding the town daily. The characters are hired to investigate; they don’t know there is a castle on the cloud, something that is obvious from the title. The cloud’s movement mechanism has stuck; in order to succeed, the characters must get the castle moving again.
Background Information for Players gives the details that the characters will be told by the locals who hire them and the reward offered, as well as local resources.
A Castle in the Sky first has some random encounters, divided into those in the sky and on the cloud and those within the castle. The castle itself is then described.
Following this are three pages of player handouts.
New Magic Items has two new items.
The final two pages of content have maps of the castle.
Castle in the Clouds in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough sections that these would have been useful. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. There are a variety of stock colour and black and white illustrations. Presentation is okay.
This is a fairly straightforward adventure; head into the sky and get a castle moving again. Though there are a number of combat encounters, it’s also possible that the characters could deal with the problem without facing the castle’s ruler in combat, should they be able to get it moving again, which is a slight twist. Castle in the Clouds can be found by clicking here.
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