The City Sewers by Joseph Mohr is a role playing game supplement published by Old School Role Playing for use with Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result. It is also available in a version for OSRIC.
The supplement is available as a 58 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. Two pages are the front and rear covers, two the front matter and three the Open Game License.
The opening paragraph mentions that sewers can be dangerous.
About this Adventure explains that it’s a series of interconnected city sewers which could be placed anywhere. There are five sections as well as connecting tunnels that can be used as desired. Some of the sections are more dangerous than others.
All of the Sewers explains the characteristics shared by all the sewers and there is a d100 list, with 52 results, of items that could be found, some valuable, many junk.
The five main sewer sections are then described. Each has at least one possible adventure hook, random encounters and descriptions of the various locations.
The connecting tunnels are divided into two types, north/south and east/west. There are three north/south and four east/west, though there is nothing to stop the maps from being rotated. These have random encounters and location descriptions but no adventure hooks.
Monsters Used in this Adventure has 22 pages of stats.
The final seven pages of content have maps of the sewers.
The City Sewers 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 covers and maps, there are a couple of full-page colour illustrations. Presentation is okay.
This is not precisely an adventure, even though each of the five main sewer sections has something specific connected to them, but a collection of resources to make a city’s sewer. Though using them all close together might result in an overabundance of monsters in a small location, they could always be padded out with more sewers to make an even larger complex. The City Sewers is a useful supplement and can be found by clicking here.
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