Miskatonic Monday #331: Trouble At Scarrick Isle

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: Trouble At Scarrick Isle

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Man Of Thousand Hobbies

Setting: Jazz Age Massachusetts

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Ten page, 778.23 KB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: One goes missing off Innsmouth Island?

Plot Hook: Missing off Massachusetts

Plot Support: One map, eighteen NPCs, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# A project for the Keeper to rework

# Batrachophobia

# Sanguivoriphobia

# Thalassophobia

Cons

# Is it a sequel or isn’t it?

# Deep Ones and vampires

# Not enough set-up

# Needs an edit

Conclusion

# Too bare bones, too many NPCs, and not enough clarity

# The Keeper needs to pull it apart and put it back together again
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