Miskatonic Monday #394: Hot Bro Summer

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: Hot Bro Summer

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Rina Haenze & Evan Perlman

Setting: West Coast, USA

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Twenty-five page, 2.37 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis, and I say to myself, was I that stupid? But that was me then.” – Marcel Dionne

Plot Hook: A reality television series that is really going to work the body beautiful

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Himbos, two NPCs, six Mythos monsters, and a bevy of ‘Hot Young Things’.

Production Values: Serviceable

Pros

# Narcissistic horror in front of the world’s cameras (and beyond)

# Body beautiful versus body dysmorphic disorder

# Can the himbos be the heroes?

# Dysmorphophobia

# Venustraphobia

# Androphobia

Cons

# Some players are going to need ‘How to Himbo’ guide

# Single session stress test

# No house floorplans

# Needs a slight edit

Conclusion

# Himbo Horror! Mythos horror! Reality television! Which is worse?
# Quite possibly the biggest roleplaying challenge your players will ever face, bro!