Miskatonic Monday #335: Ectoplasmorphia

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: Ectoplasmorphia

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Hyacinth

Setting: USA, 1926

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Twenty page, 3.22 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Two houses, one plot, never the twain

Plot Hook: Lost outside two lonely houses, which do they enter?

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, three handouts, and one map.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Haunted house mystery

# Easy to adjust to other eras for Call of Cthulhu

# Taxidermiphobia

# Zoophobia

# Dysergia

Cons

# Why are the pre-generated Investigators together?
# More haunted house mystery than a Mythos one

# Two locations for the same scenario, once a location is chosen, the other cannot be reached, so does it actually matter?

Conclusion

# Decently done haunted house horror

# Sadly, no Hoots Mon There’s A Moose Loose Aboot This Hoose