Miskatonic Monday #359: The Kangaroo Route

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: The Kangaroo Route

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Royce Wilson

Setting: 1930s United Kingdom to Australia, and all points between

Product: Sourcebook
What You Get: Fifty-Seven page, 42.81 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “It Pays To Fly British” – Quantas Empire Airways

Plot Hook: London to Sydney in eleven days and see the Empire!

Plot Support: Aviation and travel history, a fully detailed aeroplane, seventeen adventure hooks, seventeen NPCs, three handouts, three maps, and more.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Detailed journey descriptions—there and back again!

# Potential campaign structure

# Visits places rarely touched upon by Lovecraftian investigative horror

# Interesting passengers

# Cocktail recipes!

# Useful for any pre- and post-World War II roleplaying game

# Aerophobia

# Hodophobia

# Thalassophobia

Cons

# Limited in time frame and geography
# Lots of story hooks, but all need developing

# Not a Mythos sourcebook per se...

Conclusion

# Richly detailed journey description for the rich only!

# Brings verisimilitude to a long voyage