Miskatonic Monday #419: Broken Dreams

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: Broken Dreams

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: John Almack

Setting: Jazz Age Kingsport and beyond

Product: One-on-one scenario
What You Get: Eighteen page, 1.98 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Nothing happens unless we first dream.” — Carl Sandburg

Plot Hook: A damsel in distress in the Dreamlands

Plot Support: Staging advice, one pre-generated Investigator, two NPCs, two handouts, one map, and twenty-four Dreamlands inhabitants and/or monsters.

Production Values: Serviceable

Pros

# One Investigator, One Keeper rescue mission into the Dreamlands

# Easy to replace the pre-generated Investigator (or add another)

# Is the pre-generated Investigator a stand-in for Lovecraft?

# Classic fairy tale quest, but for Call of Cthulhu

# Good for nights in between sessions

# Oneirophobia

# Goblinphobia

# Zoophobia

Cons

# Straightforward quest-type tale

Conclusion

# A fairy tale in the Dreamlands

# Solid, one-on-one scenario given a couple of genre twists