Miskatonic Monday #396: The Dionysian

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 Dionysian

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Christopher D. Leonard

Setting: Washington State, USA, 2018

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twenty-two page, 11.83 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Bombs do not choose. They hit everything.”

– Nikita Khrushchev

Plot Hook: An unexpected murder spree over old ground

Plot Support: Staging advice, five NPCs, one Mythos tome, one Mythos artefact, and two Mythos entities

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Requires some knowledge of the Mythos

# There’s a bomb involved

# Would work easily with with Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game

# Potential for sequels if the outcome is a success

# Ekrixphobia

# Capraphobia

# Herpetophobia

Cons

# Requires some knowledge of the Mythos
# There’s a bomb involved

# Could have detailed the killer’s telephone call

# No maps

Conclusion

# Serviceable investigation where one solution might be violence

# Underwritten introduction