Miskatonic Monday #315: Night of the Frizzi-Nocs

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: Night of the Frizzi-Nocs

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Andy Miller

Setting: Dark Forest of Gloon, the Dreamlands

Product: Scenario for Down Darker Trails: Terrors of the Mythos
What You Get: Sixty-Two page, 32.64 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise” – Teddy Bears Picnic, Henry Hall

Plot Hook: The besieged are not always the victims

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, one handout and twelve portraits, twenty-two NPCs, three maps, one Mythos artefact, one Mythos tome, and one Mythos monster

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# ‘Oyster’

# Excellent overview of the Dreamlands and Call of Cthulhu

# Extensive notes to adjust for Dreamers to have come from any Call of Cthulhu setting, including waking world parallels

# Highly detailed scenario, but a simple situation

# Cute monsters

# Potential sequel to The Schoolmarm’s Ghost

# Hylophobia

# Oneirophobia

# Scelerophobia

Cons

# ‘Twinkletown’

# Overly detailed in places

Conclusion

# Highly detailed investigation of the enemy within and the monster without

# A rustic horror side quest for The Dreamlands