Miskatonic Monday #342: William Bailey’s Haunted Mansion

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: William Bailey’s Haunted Mansion: A Call of Cthulhu Adventure

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author David Waldron

Setting: Ballarat, 1890s

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Thirty-nine page, 6.66 MB PDF

Elevator Pitch: Unhappy is the man whose home is haunted.

Plot Hook: If it isn’t a haunting, then what horrors have been lurking in the home of the town’s most notorious man?
Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, eight handouts, six NPCs, and two monsters.

Production Values: Decent.

Pros

# Scenario for Cthulhu by Gaslight

# Investigation starts from the get-go

# Historically based pre-generated Investigators

# Straightforward investigation

# Layout eases the investigation

# Phasmophobia

# Sugrophobia

# Paranoia

Cons

# Layout a little tight

# Needs an edit

Conclusion

# Neatly organised, straightforward, easy-to-run investigation

# Decent one-shot for Cthulhu by Gaslight