Miskatonic Monday #306: Chaos in Chiapas

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: Chaos in Chiapas: A Modern Call of Cthulhu Adventure

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: David Waldron

Setting: Modern Day Mexico

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Sixty-one page, 29.06 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Tourist Terror in Mythos Meltdown

Plot Hook: Some diversions are just not worth the danger

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, one handout, four maps, six NPCs, and three Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Shaky

Pros

# Scenario for Pulp Cthulhu: Two-fisted Action and Adventure Against the Mythos

# Solid set-up

# Brawling, gunfest of a scenario

# One night, one session scenario
# Decent use of setting photographs

# Feels like it needs miniatures for the showdown

# Megalophobia

# Xylophobia

# Hoplophobia

Cons

# Needs a good edit

# More action than investigation
# Feels like it needs miniatures for the showdown

Conclusion

# Low budget horror shoot ’em up in the jungle

# More miniatures and the Mythos than classic investigation