The Night Rider 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.
The supplement is available as a 31 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 villagers are being attacked by a dark rider during the night, a skeletal being on a dark horse, and these attacks are causing problems.
For the Game Master gives the origin of the dark rider and her grudge against the locals. The adventure is aimed at characters of 6th-8th level and can be set in any rural area away from a major city.
Rumors has a d20 table of rumours, some true, some false, some a mix of both.
Potential Hooks has four possible adventure hooks to get characters involved.
Clues to the Riders Locations has three types of evidence that can be found.
Local Villages and Hamlets explains this is a generic location that should have woods as well as a few villages and hamlets.
The Woods has a brief description of these.
Ruins describes the rider’s base. There are upper ruins and a dungeon level, with both being filled with an array of monsters and dangers.
New Monsters has some new creatures, including the main foe.
New Magical Items has a couple of new items.
Concluding this Adventure explains what’s needed to defeat the enemy; simply killing her isn’t enough.
The final two pages of content have maps of the ruins.
The Night Rider 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 maps and covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is okay.
This is a potentially dangerous adventure, especially as simply killing the night rider isn’t enough to finally defeat her, and if the characters don’t find out what needs to be done, she will return and seek to hunt them down again, making her a potentially reoccurring foe. The Night Rider can be found by clicking here.
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