Miskatonic Monday #352: Mount Katahdin’s Shadow

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: Mount Katahdin’s Shadow

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Christopher Capone

Setting: Maine’s 100 Mile Wilderness, USA, 1988

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Sixty-eight page, 98.09 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: The horror on the hike
Plot Hook: Terror on the Appalachian Trail, madness in Maine

Plot Support: Staging advice, seven pre-generated Investigators, ten NPCs, eleven handouts, seven map, and three Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Linear set-up funnels the Investigators into an interesting and increasingly tense situation

# Horrifying encounters with wildlife gone wrong

# Playtest notes and background material included

# Scales back to be run as a convention scenario

# Foniasophobia

# Arachnophobia

# Sciurophobia

Cons

# No Investigator backgrounds given their supposed connections

# Needs a light edit

Conclusion

# Blood on the trail leads to terror from beyond!

# Linearity of the scenario funnels the tension and the terror