Miskatonic Monday #330: Missing in the Rocky Mountains

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: Missing in the Rocky Mountains

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Derek Zimmer

Setting: Rocky Mountain National Park, 1926

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Forty-five page, 23.80 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: ‘Inland Innsmouth Incursion’

Plot Hook: Missing persons and misdirection

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, seven handouts, eight NPCs, three maps, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Excellent

Pros

# Nicely detailed investigation

# Challenging investigation
#Not a sasquatch hunt (but it could be)

# Part of ‘Cthulhu in the Parks’ series
# Easy to adapt to other periods for Call of Cthulhu

# Easy to adapt to other similar mountain ranges

# Could be updated as an introductory scenario for a Park Ranger scenario for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game

# Decent handouts

# Good Keeper advice

# Batrachophobia

# Orophobia

# Teraphobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit
# Likely to end in a shootout

# Challenging investigation

Conclusion

# Good mix of investigation and action with solid Keeper support

# Short, butchallenging investigation

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