Short 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 20 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 a stock broker wants to hire the characters to perform sabotage on a number of factories of a megacorp in the Sonora sector – the adventure is set in the Frontiers of Space – so he can make money shorting their stock.
Complications are things that are not known or which can go wrong.
Patron has details on the employer.
The Andromeda Body Armor Factory has some details on the factory, the world it’s on, sabotage and guards.
The Chemical Factory Factory is similar, with further details on hazards, products, robots and visiting ships.
The Adult Beverage Factory has details on the world, the factory, security, androids, products, sabotage, transport, the starport and visiting ships.
Volatile Markets looks at what might happen to them because of the sabotage.
The Yamaguchi Hit Team are hired killers sent after the characters to silence them.
The Yamaguchi Way looks at the chance that the cartel might decide to “employ” the characters instead.
Mission Completion is what’s needed to succeed.
Short 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 covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is adequate.
This is the sort of adventure that characters are best off not doing. If they do their job successfully, they will have a hit team after them and there’s a good chance that the police will be too. So even success has significant problems for them. Short can be found by clicking here.
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