Miskatonic Monday #368: The Ballad of Lost Danava

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 Ballad of Lost Danava

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Kevin Kreiner

Setting: The far future

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Fifteen page, 1.58 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: H.G. Wells’ The ‘Planet’ of Dr. Moreau

Plot Hook: Forced to land on a planet where no man has been before

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, one handout, three Mythos tomes and recordings, two Mythos monsters, and one dinosaur.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# 2nd Place Winner in Stars Are Right Scenario Outline Writing Contest

# Curiously old-fashioned Science Fiction feel

# Dinosaurs optional

# Decently done pre-generated Investigators

# Deinophobia

# Radiophobia

# Cleithrophobia

Cons

# Fairly obvious in its plotting

Conclusion

# Escape from H.G. Wells’ The ‘Planet’ of Dr. Moreau

# Short and easy to run, more of a classic stranded and escape situation than an investigation