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: Ekin Ergün
Setting: Boston, New England, 1920
Product: Scenario
What You Get: Thirteen page, 3.76 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: It’s a sequel to ‘The Haunting’
Plot Hook: The Chapel of Contemplation is congregating again
Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, one NPC, two Mythos spells, and six Mythos monsters
Production Values: Reasonable
Pros
# Sequel to ‘The Haunting’
# Part of ‘The Next Adventure’ series
# ‘Hauntophobia’
# Oneirophobia
# Blennophobia
Cons
# Needs an edit
# Not all of the information is where it is needed
# Too many unnecessary skill checks
# Needs to tell the Keeper the plot, not have her discover it
# Minimalist background
Conclusion
# Overwritten and underdeveloped, the Keeper will need to prepare this hard
# A sequel worthy of ‘The Haunting’ is yet to come
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