Miskatonic Monday #343: Hope’s End

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: Hope’s End

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author Steen Stahlhut

Setting: New England, 1914

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Forty-six page, 4.74 MB PDF

Elevator Pitch: Can a zombie be guilty of making a false instrument?

Plot Hook: New England in a time of cholera.
Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, nine handouts, three NPCs, three maps, one Mythos tome, one Mythos spell, and two monsters.

Production Values: Underwhelming.

Pros

# Scenario near Lovecraft Country

# Easy to adjust to other locations

# Historically inspired scenario

# Mythos elements pleasingly hidden under another investigation

# Nosophobia

# Necrophobia

# Kinemortophobia

Cons

# Why are grave diggers in Call of Cthulhu always drunk?

# Needs a good edit

Conclusion

# Medical turned Mythos investigation undermined by poor presentation

# Potentially a very serviceable investigation