Miskatonic Monday #370: Rryonn

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: Rryonn: The Room You Can’t Escape Without Eating Tangerines

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Choya

Setting: Tonight

Product: Tangerine Dream
What You Get: Eight-page, 360.25 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch:  “I must not fear fruit. Fruit is the mind-killer. Fruit is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fruit. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fruit has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” – With apologies to Dune, Frank Herbert

Plot Hook: An amber room with amber fruit

Plot Support: Staging advice.

Production Values: Orange

Pros

# The first Korean scenario translated into English?

# Could be run as a LARP

# Thirty-minute filler (dream sequence?)

# Very Korean

# Esperidoeidiphobia

# Fructophobia

# Chrysophobia

Cons

# Very Korean

# No Mythos

Conclusion

# Short and easy to run, but extremely Korean and extremely physical

# Fruit is the only fear

Miskatonic Monday #369: Operation Werewolf

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: Operation Werewolf

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: John Mack

Setting: Germany, May 1445

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Sixty-three page, full colour, 10.20 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Broken dreams on the eve of peace

Plot Hook: Werewolves at war, the Nazis strike back!

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, five handouts, two maps, twelve NPCs, one Mythos tomes, one Mythos artefact, three Mythos spells, and five Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Serviceable

Pros

# Plays on fears of Nazi resistance

# Includes World War II espionage Experience Packages and NPC Screen Hangers! 

# Detailed description of a village after war

# Detailed chase sequences included

# Well done pre-generated Investigators

# Oneirophobia

# Lycanthrophobia

# Pistanthrophobia

Cons

# Could use a stronger, clearer briefing for the players and their Investigators

# Some pre-generated Investigators are more complex than others

Conclusion

# Growing sense of paranoia as the werewolves strike again and again!

# Horrors of war versus the horrors of the night