Miskatonic Monday #403: The Island of Insanity

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: The Island of Insanity

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Jay Sojdelius, Jonas Morian, Alison Cybe, and The Yellow Hand

Setting: New England, Argentina, and Antarctica, 1937

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twenty-eight page, 25.72 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: The island that time should have forgot

Plot Hook: A race against the clock to find a missing author

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, four NPCs, eleven handouts, and five maps, and one Mythos entity.

Production Values: Superb

Pros

# Pacy race against the clock 

# Easily adapted to other eras

# Easy to add to a campaign or run as a one-shot

# Very good looking scenario

# Great handouts
# Decent pre-generated Investigators

# Well presented background

# Automatonophobia

# Carceroophobia

# Antarcticaphobia

Cons

# No Sanity rewards

# Undeveloped in terms of cult reaction

Conclusion

# Superbly appointed, fast-paced race against time

# Cult antagonists need development in terms of motivation, action, and a human presence to lift into a full recommendation