Miskatonic Monday #309: Temple of the Crawling Chaos

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: Temple of the Crawling Chaos

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Man Of Thousand Hobbies

Setting: Egypt 1923

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Ten page, 287.19 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Is there more to the tomb of Tutankhamun?

Plot Hook: Something has been stolen from the tomb of Tutankhamun... possibly.

Plot Support: Staging advice, one map, three NPCs, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Slapdash

Pros

# Intended to be a starter scenario

# Something of a ‘Doer-Upper’ for the Keeper

# Taphephobia

# Claustrophobia

# Egyptophobia

Cons

# Not a starter scenario

# Does not clearly state the plot

# Needs a slight edit

Conclusion

# Too bare bones and not enough clarity

# Underdeveloped and ‘Pay What You Want’ is still underdeveloped
# Reviews from R’lyeh Discommends