Miskatonic Monday #395: Alabaster Amphora – An Egyptian Adventure

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: Alabaster Amphora – An Egyptian Adventure

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Sean Liddle

Setting: The Nile, 1958

Product: Outline
What You Get: Sixteen page, 1.08 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Death on the Nile meets Without a Clue meets The Mummy

Plot Hook: A murder puts the Investigators in the frame

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, two handouts, and two Mythos entities

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Pulp horror, murder mystery

# When the detective dies, someone has to step into his shoes

# Detailed outline ready for the Keeper to develop

# Krokodeilophobia

# Elaiophobia

# Thanatophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit
# Detailed outline that the Keeper will need to develop

# No NPC stats

Conclusion

# Death of a detective up the Nile and into horror!

# Detailed outline that needs development and some NPC stats