Miskatonic Monday #404: That Damned Auction!

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: That Damned Auction!

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Man Of Thousand Hobbies

Setting: 1922

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twenty-four page, 5.3 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: The biggest MacGuffin of them all! Somebody’s bound to end up dead.

Plot Hook: When the Necronomicon is up for auction, everyone drops everything!

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, some NPCs, two floorplans, three Mythos entities, and the Mythos tome.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Pulpy treatment of a classic Call of Cthulhu scenario set-up

# Easy to adapt to other modern eras

# Can be set anywhere wealthy and coastal
# Suited to experienced Investigators with the Cthulhu Mythos skill

# East to set up and run

# Auction Anxiety

# Paranoia

# Helminthophobia

Cons

# Needs a good edit

# Keeper will need to explain the evidence of some dice rolls

Conclusion

# Country house murders, but with murders!

# A fluffy lemon meringue pie of a scenario, complete with soggy bottom