The Curse of Skelling by Konstantinos Stavropoulos is a role playing game supplement published by Commander Costas for use with Mothership.
The supplement is available as a 12 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. Two pages are the front and rear covers and one the front matter. There are also two maps as image files; oddly, one is a png and the other a jpg.
How to use this module explains that this is intended to be played as a 2–3-hour one shot, though it could be part of a larger campaign, and that the characters are hired tom investigate an archaeological research station which stopped transmitting. They are not the first to be sent.
Backstory explains what happened at the research station for the Warden. Essentially, the research post discovered something that would have best been left alone.
Ritual details: explains how one of the fundamental parts of the adventure works.
The hook is the hook to get the characters involved.
The Research Station details the various locations of the station.
The Temple covers the research site.
The Curse of Skelling in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and has enough different sections that these would have been useful. Navigation is okay. The text varies between one and two column format and appeared to be mostly free of errors. As well as the maps, there are some hand drawn black and white illustrations. Presentation is okay.
In some places it has a white background, whilst in others the background is black, which means printing the supplement out would be a nightmare. This is a short, comparatively straightforward adventure, but the possibility of death is high, so the characters may not all make it out alive. The Curse of Skelling can be found by clicking here.
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