Miskatonic Monday #425: Debitum Ignis

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: Debitum Ignis

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Christian Grundel

Setting: Late 1600s Colonial Rhode Island

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Fifty-two-page, 14.22 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Peril, paranoia, & Puritanism in Rhode Island

Plot Hook: Bloody hog horror leads to the wrong man being accused of witchcraft—or does it?

Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, thirteen NPCs, two maps, one spell, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Outstanding

Pros

# From the author of Deadfellas

# Set in Colonial-era America

# Strong interactive and roleplaying-based investigation

# Nice sense of isolation and paranoia
# Includes notes on Investigator creation in addition to the pre-generated Investigators

# Includes hooks that can be expanded for further scenarios

# Creepy cuckoo-in-the-nest antagonist

# Dikephobia

# Stawatchatophobia

# Paranoia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Some repetition

# Highlights the lack of a Colonial era sourcebook

Conclusion

# The Crucible meets Call of Cthulhu
# Strong interactive, social investigation in an age of propriety

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