The Temple of Sthuselix 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 29 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 talk about the spread of the Cult of Sthuselix, which worships the snake god Sthuselix, concerns about its growing influence and that there are rumours about it. The characters are in a town where the Grand Temple of the cult has just been built.
For the Game Master explains this is an adventure for 4th to 7th level which can take place in any suitable town or city, and that the temple is dangerous.
Rumors about the Temple and the Cult has a list of 20 rumours, some true, some false, some partly true.
The Demi-God Sthuselix has some details on this deity.
The Temple of Sthuselix has a couple of paragraphs on the general appearance of the temple, a table of random encounters and descriptions of the various locations, along with traps, treasure and monsters.
Infiltrating the Temple as New Member Prospects looks at how the characters could do this.
New Monsters has these.
The Cast of NPCs details the important NPCs in the temple.
New Magic Items has these.
Potential Member Prospects has three NPCs who are seeking to become members, should the characters also be posing as such.
The final page of content has a map of the temple.
The Temple of Sthuselix 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 map and covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is okay.
Given that the temple is to a snake god, it is no great surprise that it features snake and reptilian monsters and the same with the new monsters and new magic items. Poison is therefore quite common; any group not equipped to deal with such will find the adventure even more dangerous, and it’s already something of a challenge. It should be easy enough to drop into many settings, and the GM can always change the god to another appropriate serpent god from their own setting. The Temple of Sthuselix can be found by clicking here.
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