Miskatonic Monday #345: Under The Chalk

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: Under the Chalk

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Z.V. Cretney

Setting: Dorset, 1976

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Thirty-five page, 32.58 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Five Go Mad in Dorset
Plot Hook: What’s a folk festival without fear and folly?

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, eight NPCs, eleven handouts, one map, and one Folk monster.

Production Values: Excellent

Pros

# Atmospheric period piece

# Folkloric horror a la Nigel Neale

# Feels as if it was made by ITV

# Decent handouts

# Calxophobia

# Chorohobia

# Hemophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Layout needs a good tidy up

# No actual phobia of Morris Dancing

# Just a little too arch

# The University of Rural Dorset. UNFORGIVABLE.

Conclusion

# Fear and loathing in West Dorset

# Pleasing pastoral oddness that ramps up into bloody rustic horror

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