Miskatonic Monday #384: The Kofun Closes to the West

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 Kofun Closes to the West: An island Hopping Scenario in Edo Japan for the Call of Role Playing Game

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author Steven Goodison

Setting: Edo period Japan

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Thirty-two page, 57.22 MB PDF

Elevator Pitch: Grave robbers of the Orient

Plot Hook: Against the clock, body snatching mystery

Plot Support: Staging advice, ten handouts, four maps, twelve NPCs, one spell, and four Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Underwhelming
Scenario Title: Overwhelming

Pros

# Set in Edo era Japan

# Second part of a five-part mini-campaign

# Interesting clash between ‘civilised’ and ‘uncivilised’

# Sequel to Thing Torments Poet, Daimyo calls on Greatest Help, Will the Players Fail?

# Could be adapted for use with Japan – Empire of Shadows: A Call of Cthulhu sourcebook for 1920s Imperial Japan

# Necrophobia

# Phasmophobia

# Osophobia

Cons

# Needs a strong edit

# Plot could be much clearer

# No suggestions as to how to create the Investigators

Conclusion

# Interesting period for Lovecraftian investigative roleplaying is left unsupported

# Decent mystery hindered by messy layout

Miskatonic Monday #383: Split Ticket

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: Split Ticket

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Steven Goodison

Setting: Wales, 2025

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twenty-two page, 46.95 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Trên Cannibal i Gymru

Plot Hook: It’s in the blood!

Plot Support: Staging advice, two NPCs, six handouts, and three Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Cartoonish

Pros

# Easy to run with any type of character

# Straightforward one-shot

# Cannibal Combat in Spaaaaace!

# Kinemortophobia

# Siderodromophobia

# Ososphobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# No maps

Conclusion

# Expect three weird shifts in tone in an otherwise straightforward one-shot

# Anyone from anywhere, survival horror in the last place you would expect