Cube 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 24 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 after talking about the Sonora sector – the adventure is set in the Frontiers of Space – move onto a massive cube-shaped vessel encountered in a neighbouring sector, one which is causing a lot of destruction. The characters are employed to go and investigate the cube, board it and stop it if possible.
Patron gives details on the employer.
Complications are things that are not known or which can go wrong.
The Cube gives some details on the vessel, a massive ship with deadly weapons that is not, in fact, a Borg cube, though there are definite similarities.
Interacting with the Cube look at the cube’s responses to hails and approaches.
Entering the Cube has a way of getting aboard.
Conditions Aboard the Ship explains that the atmosphere is toxic.
The Qhoda covers the builders of the cube.
Random Encounters Within the Cube is a 2d6 table of random encounters followed by encounters after security is alerted.
Random Events Aboard the Cube is a 2d6 table of random events.
Key to the Cube covers the ship; given its nature and size, these are just general overviews of the five levels.
The Pathogen is the disease that struck the ship.
The Computers covers the cube’s computers.
The Stasis Tubes are the still-functioning tubes.
Solutions to the Cube has different ways of completing the mission.
The Robots has stats for the robots.
The Androids covers the androids.
The Security Procedures covers these.
The final five pages of content are maps of the various decks.
Cube 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 single column format and some minor errors were noticed. Bar the maps and covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is okay.
The adventure involves heading towards a powerful, dangerous, cube-shaped ship and infiltrating it to discover more. As mentioned, there are definite Borg similarities. However, unlike a Borg cube, the occupants of this ship are more reasonable. There are a variety of solutions to the adventure, although it should be obvious that frontal assault is not really one of them, not without a fleet of capital ships. The sheer firepower of the cube means that if the characters mess up the approach, this could be a very short adventure. Cube is a potentially dangerous adventure and it can be found by clicking here.
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