Miskatonic Monday #392: Calamity in Drywater Canyon

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: Calamity in Drywater Canyon: A Wild Wet Call of Cthulhu Scenario

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Raul Longoria

Setting: Texas-New Mexico border, 1870s

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twenty-one page, 27.28 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Butchery in the Badlands will lead to blood!

Plot Hook: Opportunities aplenty, but frontier fears face the unwary

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, three NPCs, two handouts, two maps, and four Mythos monsters, and a horse.

Production Values: Serviceable

Pros

# Invasion of the cannibal zombies in the Wild West!

# Open rather than plotted investigation

# Can be run using Down Darker Trails: Terrors of the Mythos in the Old West

# Combat focus suggests that Pulp Cthulhu: Two-fisted Action and Adventure Against the Mythos could be an alternative rules set

# Osophobia

# Speluncaphobia

# Kinemortophobia

Cons

# Open investigation will careful handling by Keeper

# No backstory for the Investigators

Conclusion

# Hell comes to take a bite out of Drywater

# Rootin’ tootin’ shootin’ brawlin’ showdown against the forces of evil!