Miskatonic Monday #336: Dead Body Shore

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: Dead Body Shore

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Agata Brig

Setting: Scandinavia, 1925

Product: One-on-One Scenario
What You Get: Forty-six page, 2.24 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: When your Evil Grandpa is dead, he should stay dead

Plot Hook: Go climb a mountain

Plot Support: Staging advice, three NPCs, two dogs, seven handouts, one map, two Mythos spells, two Mythos tomes, and three Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# One-on-one scenario, but can be adjusted

# More Norse than Mythos

# Descent into the depths of Norse myth and betrayal

# Necrophobia

# Orophobia

# Apeirophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Could be better organised

# Underwhelming Investigator hook
# Needs pre-generated Investigator(s)

# More Norse than Mythos

# The Lockheed Vega is a year out, so why not shift the scenario date?

Conclusion

# More Norse than Mythos

# Fear of the family is the greatest danger in a linear descent into Norse myth and betrayal