Miskatonic Monday #373: The Hollow Beneath Clapper Tor

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 Hollow Beneath Clapper Tor

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Sean Liddle

Setting: World War II Plymouth

Product: Outline
What You Get: Nine page, 268.07 KB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Three Go Mad in Devon (Again)

Plot Hook: Tremor at’ Moor

Plot Support: Staging advice

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Sequel to HUM and The Borrowed

# Pleasing sense of dreams from the past

# Detailed outline

# Potential for child-like curiosity and terror

# Alastair, not Algernon Blackwood!

# Definitely part of a series rather than a one-shot

# Potential for sequels

# Speluncaphobia

# Claustrophobia

# Oneirophobia

Cons

# No pre-generated Investigators
# No advice on creating teenage Investigators

# Definitely part of a series rather than a one-shot
# Outline rather than scenario

Conclusion

# Detailed outline still leaves the Keeper with lots of work to do in what is an ‘in-between’ scenario

# Engaging low key scenario that draws the Investigators into the secrets of the past like a British children’s television series from the seventies