Miskatonic Monday #431: The Missing Rabbi of Berezin

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 Missing Rabbi of Berezin: Eldritch Horror on the Pale of Settlement

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Miri Rosenau

Setting: Belarus, 1870s

Product: One shot
What You Get: Fifteen-page, 5.26 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Who let the cold in?

Plot Hook: The village’s rabbi is missing

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, two handouts, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Escape the cold grasp of death before the cold grasp of the Czar

# Short, quite straightforward investigation

# Suitable for convention play

# Frigophobia

# Speluncaphobia

# Teraphobia

Cons

# Underplotted

# No helpful maps

# Difficult to read handouts

Conclusion

# Underwritten in terms challenge and plot

# Intriguing time and place to set a Mythos scenario