Miskatonic Monday #409: Attenzione, Shub-niggurato!

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: Attenzione, Shub-niggurato!

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Wille Ruotsalainen

Setting: French-Italian border, 1945

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Twenty six-page, 2.03 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Episodic horror on the forgotten front

Plot Hook: Can the soldiers survive more than the horrors of war?

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, three NPCs, four maps, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Isolated, icy horror in the French alps

# Straightforward plotting

# Kinemortophobia

# Germanophobia

# Frigophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Reads more like a narrative than a scenario

# Keeper will need to better develop the end of the scenario

# Does suggest that the Investigators might have to commit war crimes, but consequences left unexplored

Conclusion

# Heavily plotted survival horror that could have done with more investigation
# Too much focus on the monster not the monstrous