Miskatonic Monday #417: Party Favour

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: Party Favour

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: PJC

Setting: Australia, 1932

Product: One-shot
What You Get: Fifty-four-page, 11.61 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Revolution and reaction on the bloody streets of Sydney

Plot Hook: The favour is hunt for missing Party loyalists

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Communist Investigators, two major NPCs, twenty-eight handouts, two maps.

Production Values: Good

Pros

# Politically-themed scenario for Terror Australis: Call of Cthulhu in the Land Down Under

# Beer mat as a handout! (How very Australian)

# Historically detailed and annotated scenario

# Adjustable to run as a convention scenario

# Punch a Fascist moments built in

# Nice period maps

# Tyrannophobia

# Trypophobia

# Cuprolaminophobia

Cons

# Layout could be tidier

# Running it as a convention scenarios misses some of cultural subtleties

Conclusion

# Showcases the effects of the Great Depression from an Australian angle

# Politically-charged punch-up of a scenario

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