Miskatonic Monday #379: Arkham Fire

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: Arkham Fire: A Modern Era Scenario for Call of Cthulhu

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Steve Anderson

Setting: Arkham, 2025

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Forty-six page, 12.86 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Conflagration Groundhog Day style!

Plot Hook: Rescue the girl! Rescue the mother! Get lost in time!

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Fire Fighters, six NPCs, twelve handouts, two maps, one Mythos artefact, three Mythos spells, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Singed

Pros

# Action-packed mystery in time

# Good one-shot for a convention game

# Disjointed by intention, but well handled

# Good set-up

# Upgrade to a Hound of Tindalos?

# Chronophobia

# Capnophobia

# Pyrophobia

Cons

# Requires careful handling of intentionally disjointed nature

Conclusion

# The house is already burning. Setting it on fire is not an option.

# Time-fractured mystery with a conflagration looming in the here and now

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