Miskatonic Monday #388: Pulp Cthulhu: Heroes’ New Talents!

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: Pulp Cthulhu: Heroes’ New Talents!

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Davide Quatrini

Setting: 1930s

Product: Supplement for Pulp Cthulhu: Two-fisted Action and Adventure Against the Mythos
What You Get: Three page, 2.70 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: When some Talents are not enough, then you need more!

Plot Hook: More Pulp Action Talents for Pulp Action heroes.

Plot Support: Twenty-four Talents for Pulp Cthulhu: Two-fisted Action and Adventure Against the Mythos 

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Twenty-four Pulp Cthulhu Talents

# Broken down into four categories—Alternate Physical Talents, Alternate Mental Talents, Alternate Combat Talents, and Alternate Miscellaneous Talents

# Some very specific, so suit specific character types, such ‘Miner’ who always knows depth underground and time of day outside, good for a miner or a spelunker

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Some very specific, so not always useful such as ‘Chopper’ which reduces fumble chances when using a chainsaw as a weapon or ‘True Singer’ which lets a character counter any music- or song-based spell or eldritch power with a Hard Art and Craft (Opera Singer) roll

Conclusion

# If you absolutely have to have more Pulp Cthulhu Talents

# Cheap