Miskatonic Monday #377: Moonglow

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: Moonglow

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: John Almack

Setting: Shackleton Base, Lunar South Pole, Late Twenty-first Century

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Twenty-one page, 3.31 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Madness on the Moon in mining nightmare

Plot Hook: Stop the madness and get back to work!

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, One NPC, three handouts, two maps, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Science Fiction horror one-shot

# Nicely detailed set-up

# Lots of knowing Science Fiction references

# Very player-driven until the thing come shunting for them

# Potential convention scenario

# Chromophobia

# Cleithrophobia

# Aquaphobia

Cons

# Lots of knowing Science Fiction references

# One Investigator needs a better briefing

Conclusion

# Are the Investigators trapped with it or is it trapped the Investigators?

# Survival space horror with a good set-up

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