Dinner Is Served 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 16 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 new planets on the Sonora sector’s borders – the adventure is set in the Frontiers of Space – are frequently discovered. A new alien species on one of these in an unexplored sector have invited human pilgrims to come to their planet and settle, and are paying a bounty for each person brought.
Patron explains that there is no specific patron, just the aliens, the Bhin’an.
Complications are the various things that can go wrong or which aren’t known.
Aistea has some details on the Bhin’an’s planet.
Clues are things that hint to what’s really going on.
How Many Visits to this World is too Many? has the risk that the Bhin’an will decide the characters may know too much,
Finding the Bhin’an Settlement Operations explains how the Bhin’an are paying for the colonists.
Morality and Ethics explains the adventure, which is inspired by the Twilight Zone episode, “To Serve Man”, will determine how evil the characters are, as in how willing they are to cooperate once they discover what’s happening.
Roster of Bhin’an has some details on the species and a 4d6 table of members.
Mission Completion Objectives explains that the objective is to make money from trafficking people.
Later Consequences explains that the characters’ actions can lead to consequences down the line.
The final page of content has a map of Aistea.
Dinner Is Served 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 potentially dangerous adventure, and one with potentially lasting consequences, even if the characters survive. There is a mention of the characters doing the right thing and revealing what is really going on, but this isn’t explored in any detail; the assumption seems to be that the characters will find out what’s happening and quite whilst they are ahead, not try to do anything about it. Dinner Is Served can be found by clicking here.
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