Miskatonic Monday #371: Shadows in the Trees

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: Shadows in the Trees

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Jared Tallis

Setting: Modern day Australia

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twelve-page, 10.25 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch:  Big cat horror on the Sunshine Coast

Plot Hook: Big cat hunt for your YouTube channel

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, three handouts, three maps, two NPCs, and two Mythos creatures.

Production Values: Good

Pros

# First in the ‘Short Cosmic Horror Collection’ series

# Short, intense encounter with the monsters you could become

# Parallels to Viral

# Can be adapted to other settings or time periods with cryptids

# Flexible running time up to a single session

# Good Keeper advice

# Ailurophobia

# Diokophobia

# Scoleciphobia

Cons

# Parallels to Viral

# Needs a slight edit

# Plain handouts

# Pre-generated Investigator motivations could be stronger

Conclusion

# Intense encounter with monsters and the Mythos on the Sunshine Coast

# Solid advice for the Keeper on how to dial it up or down

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