Miskatonic Monday #360: Buffalo Bill & the Southsea Horror

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: Buffalo Bill & the Southsea Horror

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: C.M. Arnold

Setting: Ewardian Portsmouth

Product: Scenario for Cthulhu by Gaslight and Down Darker Trails: Terrors of the Mythos in the Old West
What You Get: Fifty page, 13.33 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Cowboys & Indians & Rhinoceroses, oh my!”

Plot Hook: Why is patronage in Portsmouth so poor?

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, no NPCs with stats, eight handouts, one map, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Adequate

Pros

# Marvelous sense of period parochialism

# Nice period handouts

# Culminates in a Wild West Shoggoth Showdown (hoedown?)

# Possible sequel to Pilgrim’s Hope?

# Zoophobia

# Megalophobia

# Plokámiphobia

Cons

# No Investigator backgrounds
# Needs an edit

Conclusion

# Cowboys & Indians & a Cthulhu Confection, OH BOY!

# Short, single session period piece