Miskatonic Monday #366: The List of Historical & Fictional Figures Statted for Call of Cthulhu

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 List of Historical & Fictional Figures Statted for Call of Cthulhu

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Andy Miller

Setting: All of time and space

Product: Supplement
What You Get: Seventy page, 9.76 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Who (or what) appeared where and when?

Plot Hook: Have I got that scenario or supplement?

Plot Support: No staging advice, actual NPCs, handouts, maps,

Mythos artefacts, Mythos or occult tomes, Mythos entities, or indeed, plot (in the traditional sense, otherwise lots of NPCs and Mythos entities)

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Annotated list of historical and fictional figures itemised by product from Call of Cthulhu, Third Edition to Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition

# Listed separately by history and fiction

# Index of all individuals, great old ones, gods, and unique entities listed in The List of Historical & Fictional Figures Statted for Call of Cthulhu

# Engaging foreword and afterword

# There does not appear to be a phobia of lists, but there really should be

Cons

# Annotated list of historical and fictional figures itemised by product from Call of Cthulhu, Third Edition to Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition

# Listed separately by history and fiction

# Index of all individuals, great old ones, gods, and unique entities listed in The List of Historical & Fictional Figures Statted for Call of Cthulhu

# There does not appear to be a phobia of lists, but there really should be

# Highlights the fact that there really should be a similar product for scenarios

Conclusion

# Exhaustive reference guide to everyone and every ‘thing’ that has appeared in Call of Cthulhu

# Highlights the fact that there really should be a similar product for scenarios