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.
Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Duncan Heystek
Setting: Arkham, New England
Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twenty-one page, 1.37 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Suffer the children to come unto the hands of Keziah Mason
Plot Hook: “How do you know she is a Witch?” – Sir Bedevere, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, four NPCs, one Mythos tome, three Mythos spells, and five Mythos monsters
Production Values: Execrable
Pros
# Perfect for the Keeper who likes to modify (or rewrite) her scenarios
# Potentially interesting setting
# Wiccaphobia
# Hylophobia
# Autophobia
Cons
# Claims to have been edited
# Needs a clear explanation for the Keeper to understand
# Does involve the slave status
# Wanders into a random discussion of a 19th century detective agency
# Minimalist background
Conclusion
# Almost unreadable, let alone playable
# Difficult to tell if the witch or the Keeper is on trial
# Reviews from R’lyeh Discommends
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