Miskatonic Monday #391: Where Dreams Take Root

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: Where Dreams Take Root: A 1930s Call of Cthulhu Scenario

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Matt ‘Doc’ Tracey & Keeper Doc

Setting: 1930s Miskatonic University

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Fifty-two page, 91.36 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Little Shop of Horrors

Plot Hook: An ‘unofficial academic assignment’ turns into a nightmare

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, seven NPCs, ten handouts, five maps, two Mythos tomes, and four Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Excellent

Pros

# Sweaty sense of unreality amidst academic ambition

# Excellent addition to any Miskatonic University-based campaign

# The Dreamlands as a threat, not a destination

# Almost psychedelic thirty years early

# Can be run as part of A Time to Harvest: Death and Discovery in the Vermont Hills – A 1930s Era Campaign Across New England and Beyond

# Oneirophobia

# Anthonophobia

# Botanophobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit

# No bungalow map

Conclusion

# Paranoid puzzler turns into hothouse horror
# Unreal treatment of the ‘plant as invasive force’ theme
# Reviews from R’lyeh Recommends