Miskatonic Monday #329: Thicker Than Water

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: Thicker Than Water

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Jack Currie

Setting: Arkansas, 1933

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Thirty-four page, 679 KB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Monstrousness runs through more than the blood.

Plot Hook: A kidnapping sends the Investigators down south

Plot Support: Staging advice, one handout, one Mythos Tome, One Mythos spell, and one-hundred-and-ten Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Short and straightforward

# Scope for development by the Keeper

# Hemophobia

# Anthropophagusphobia

# Teraphobia

Cons

# Needs a good edit

# More plot outline than investigation

# Why isn’t the FBI involved?

# No maps or floorplans

# Much, much shorter playing time than suggested
# Scope for development by the Keeper
# If they are tied to the kidnap victim, why no pre-generated Investigators?

Conclusion

# More plot outline than scenario with limited scope for investigation

# Underdeveloped, but not without potential
# Reviews from R’lyeh Discommends