Miskatonic Monday #320: God’s Tears

Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’s masterpiece of Arthurian legend and romance, Pendragon, the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition is a curated platform for user-made content. It is thus, “...a new way for creators to publish and distribute their own original Call of Cthulhu content including scenarios, settings, spells and more…” To support the endeavours of their creators, Chaosium has provided templates and art packs, both free to use, so that the resulting releases can look and feel as professional as possible. To support the efforts of these contributors, Miskatonic Monday is an occasional series of reviews which will in turn examine an item drawn from the depths of the Miskatonic Repository.

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Name: God’s Tears: A Modern Scenario Against an Imported Horror

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Keith Craig

Setting: Omaha, 2023

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Fourteen page, 1.07 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Life is too short to drink bad wine.”

Plot Hook: A bad, but well intentioned gift has eye-opening consequences

Plot Support: Staging advice, two handouts, one map, four NPCs, one big cat, one Mythos tome, two Mythos spells, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# The Entwine Bone spell

# Dramatic set-up

# Fast playing one-shot

# Easy to transfer to other Call of Cthulhu times and settings

# Easy to transfer to other wine-growing regions

# Ommetaphobia

# Animotophobia

# Oenophobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit

Conclusion

# Straightforward, easy to run scenario

# Would make a decent scenario for The 7th Edition Guide to Cthulhu Invictus: Cosmic Horror Roleplaying in Ancient Rome