Miskatonic Monday #337: Blackthorne Bridge Club

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: Blackthorne Bridge Club

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Gavin Bastiensz

Setting: New York, 1923

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Sixty-one page, 5.37 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Only Murders in the Building meets Rosemary’s Baby
Plot Hook: Is the strangeness coming home or it already there?

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, forty NPCs, 

twenty handouts, five maps, three Mythos monsters, and a frog plague.

Production Values: Art Deco

Pros

# Apartment building, community-based investigation

# Nicely detailed pre-generated Investigators, complete with secrets

# Socially driven investigation

# Linear, but scope for lots of interaction

# Potential start of a campaign

# Egyptophobia

# Oneirohobia

# Nyctophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Actually only a partial eclipse in New York

# LaSalle 328 not introduced until 1929

Conclusion

# Only Cultists in the Building at the height of Tut-mania

# Pleasingly self-contained, socially driven investigation
# Reviews from R’lyeh Recommends