The Dragon’s Breath by Joseph Mohr is a role playing game supplement published by Old School Role Playing for use with OSRIC. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result. This is an adventure for 5-7 characters of levels 4-7.
The supplement is available as a 31 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover, three the front matter and three the Open Game License.
Game Master Notes explains that the adventure is intended to be played in 3-4 hours and was written for convention play, is shorter than others in the series and has a boss battle that is very dangerous and is likely to kill characters. It also says that though it starts in the town of Freeport it could easily be moved, although certain items found in the caves are setting-specific. Local farmers are terrified by a dragon seen in the area.
Background Information for the Players explains that they have arrived in Freeport and are asked to deal with a dragon. The locals cannot pay much and a previous band of adventurers never returned. However, the treasure could be vast.
The Dragon’s Breath has a couple of random encounters outside the caves and one within.
Key to Dragon’s Breath covers the caves.
Following this are 11 pages of player handouts, one to a page except for one that takes up two pages.
The final page of content has a map of the caves.
The Dragon’s Breath 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 two-column format and some minor errors were noticed. There are a number of stock black and white and colour illustrations, as well as the map. Presentation is okay.
Though this is a dangerous adventure, there is a feeling that it should be even more dangerous. The dragon is powerful enough that it really should not consider 4th level characters a threat at all and 7th level characters should not be able to easily take down, if at all, a dragon of its age. Though there are, as mentioned, items that are specific to the author’s campaign world, these should be easy enough to change. The Dragon’s Breath can be found by clicking here.
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