Miskatonic Monday #351: Blackthorne Bridge Club: Opening Bid

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: Opening Bid

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Gavin Bastiensz

Setting: Washington State, 1924

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Thirty-nine page, 3.14 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Mathematics is madness
Plot Hook: Madness in the asylum leads to madness on the campus

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, nine NPCs, eight handouts, one map, and three Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Sequel to Blackthorne Bridge Club and Blackthorne Bridge Club: New Tricks

# Nicely detailed pre-generated Investigators, complete with secrets

# Socially driven investigation

# Mathemaphobia

# Chapodiphobia

# Astraphobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Outcome from Blackthorne Bridge Club: New Tricks not addressed

# Some repetition from section to section

# What is the significance of the title?

# No advice on travel from New York to Washington State

Conclusion

# Serviceable, campus-based investigation strong on interaction

# Feels out of place in comparison to the New York of the original scenario