Miskatonic Monday #312: Snake Oil Salesman

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: Snake Oil Salesman

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Chris Tatum

Setting: Florida 1929

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Forty-four page, 51.46 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Sometimes the cure is worse than the cause

Plot Hook: A snake in the grass turns out to be a snake in the sanatorium.

Plot Support: Staging advice, six paired pre-generated Investigators, one map, two NPCs, and three Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Good

Pros

# Paired Investigators with differing paired objectives

# Classic ‘something’s weird at the sanatorium’ Call of Cthulhu scenario

# Nice detailed investigation

# Can be run as a tournament scenario

# Ophidiophobia

# Tomophobia

# Metathesiophobia

Cons

# Potentially a lot to fit into a single session

# Needs a slight edit

Conclusion

# Healthy living horror

# Well done, ‘staff are the insane ones’ scenario for Call of Cthulhu
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