Miskatonic Monday #424: The Innsmouth Terror

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 Innsmouth Terror

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: John Hedge & Miskatonic Playhouse

Setting: 1923 Lovecraft Country

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Forty-six-page, 68.09 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Hollywood horror comes to Innsmouth

Plot Hook: A stolen artefact leads from the Miskatonic University to a Technicolour film set on the edge of madness

Plot Support: Staging advice, five pre-generated Investigators, thirteen NPCs, three handouts, and a town full of Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Excellent

Pros

# Potential sequel to Stage Fright at the Playhouse

# Straightforward investigation

# Great double finale

# Fine addition to any Miskatonic University-based campaign

# Addition to The Society for the Exploration of the

Unexplained-based campaign from the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set

# Camerophobia

# Batrachophobia

# Chapodiphobia

Cons

# Works best as a sequel to Stage Fright at the Playhouse

# Straightforward investigation

# No maps

Conclusion

# Innsmouth investigation leads to Train to Busan Innsmouth-style
# ‘The Shadow over Innsmouth’ writ large, but in an entertaining fashion

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