Miskatonic Monday #405: The Mortal Muncher

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 Mortal Muncher

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Jared Tullis

Setting: 1930s New Orleans 

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Fifty-one page, 42.87 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Fear upsets the Big Easy

Plot Hook: A monster stalks the streets of New Orleans and the Investigators may need to turn to crime to defeat it

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, eleven NPCs, seven handouts, four maps, one floorplan, one Mythos Tome, two Mythos spells, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Cramped

Pros

# Scenario for Pulp Cthulhu: Two-fisted Action and Adventure Against the Mythos

# Easy to adapt to other modern eras

# Highly detailed investigation into victims old and new
# High action monster hunt

# Includes detailed descriptions of New Orleans

# Works with Tales of the Crescent City: Adventures in Jazz Era New Orleans

# Sanguivoriphobia

# Haemophobia

# Kinemortophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Cramped and information heavy

Conclusion

# Highly detailed vampire stakeout in the Crescent City

# The Gothic in Southern Gothic in a ‘B’ movie spine tingler