Miskatonic Monday #423: Hunger at the Campsite

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: Hunger at the Campsite

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Phanzar

Setting: 1982 USA forest

Product: Encounter
What You Get: Three-page, 2.99 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: A cat-tree-cat god is hungry

Plot Hook: An abandoned campsite deep in the woods

Plot Support: Staging advice, four Investigator templates, one NPC, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Short and easy to understand

# Could be set in any period or country

# Ailurophobia

# Dendrophobia

# Hylophobia

Cons

# Investigator templates rather than pre-generated Investigators
# No motivation for the Investigators

# No plot
# Playable in thirty minutes

Conclusion

# Plotless
# Hookless

# Reviews from R’lyeh Discommends