Miskatonic Monday #334: The Bristol Train Robbery

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: The Bristol Train Robbery

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Chicho ‘Arkashka’ OCARIZ

Setting: London and Reading, 1843

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Thirty-four page, 8.12 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: The great mummy robbery

Plot Hook: One of our mummies is missing!

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, eight handouts, one map, five NPCs, one Mythos tome, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Scenario for Cthulhu by Gaslight

# Decent transport-based investigation

# Easy to adjust to other ‘Mummy mania’ eras for Call of Cthulhu

# Inspired by The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

# Pharaohphobia

# Siderodromophobia

# Kinemortophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit
# More an occult scenario than a Mythos one

# Inspired by The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton, but no train action!

Conclusion

# Investigation into a train robbery, but without any train action

# Decently detailed investigation that is more Mummy than Mythos