Miskatonic Monday #324: Lost and Found

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: Lost and Found: A Railway Scenario for Call of Cthulhu

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: SR Sellens

Setting: Great Britain, 1926

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Sixty-eight page, 66.47 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Classic railway murder mystery meets the Mythos

Plot Hook: “There’s an unexpected item in the baggage area!”

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, ten handouts, one map and one train plan, ten NPCs, one cat, three Mythos artefacts, one Mythos tome, one Mythos spell, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Ferroequinologically excellent

Pros

# Richly detailed scenario

# Wonderfully thematic layout
# Easy to adapt to Cthulhu by Gaslight or other periods with trains

# Easy to insert into a campaign

# Bonus histories

# Has notes on adapting it to The Children of Fear, Horror on the Orient Express, Masks of Nyarlathotep, Shadows of Yog-Sothoth, Tatters of the King, The Day of the Beast, and The Two Headed Serpent

# Ferroequinology!

# Cleithrophobia

# Teraphobia

# Siderodromophobia

Cons

# Ferroequinology!

# Warranted a bibliography

# Classic trapped with an unstoppable monster scenario

Conclusion

# Classic cosy railway murder gets trapped by the Mythos in a richly detailed and thematically presented scenario

# Highly flexible and adaptable to multiple periods and actual Call of Cthulhu campaigns!

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