Miskatonic Monday #363: Cold Brood

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: Cold Brood

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Mitchell Harrop, Eric Jong, & Alex Shermon

Setting: Ballarat, 1925

Product: Scenario for Terror Australis: Call of Cthulhu in the Land Down Under

What You Get: Sixty-two page, 19.21 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?” – PFC Hudson, Aliens

Plot Hook: “Them! Them!” – The Ellinson Girl, Them!

Plot Support: Staging advice, nineteen NPCs, eight handouts, two maps, and one monster

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Ballarat, Mythos (Monster) central, Australia?

# Big bug hunt!

# Highly detailed and organised investigation

# Well researched scenario

# Entomophonia

# Ombrophobia

# Selenophobia

Cons

# Ballarat, Mythos (Monster) central, Australia?

# No pre-generated Investigators

# No Investigator motive

# Big bug hunt!

# Not a Mythos scenario

# Needs an edit

Conclusion

# Highly detailed investigation

# Classic big bug hunt!