Miskatonic Monday #427: The Old Church Graveyard

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 Old Church Graveyard

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Eddy Sutton

Setting: USA, 1986

Product: One shot
What You Get: Seventeen-page, 303.74 BB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Kids versus the church

Plot Hook: The lure of the hymn leads to horror 

Plot Support: No staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators and four backup pre-generated Investigators, four combat relics, and three monsters from the grave.

Production Values: Scrawled

Pros

# Easy to prepare

# Easy to adjust to other times and cities

# Coimetrophobia

# Kinemortophobia

# Ecclesiophobia

Cons

# Not a scenario, but an outline for the author to run

# Bullet points do not a scenario make

# A combat-focused cemetery crawl by any other name 

# No plot given

Conclusion

# All the implications of a plot, but no plot given
# Should this have been drawn in crayon?

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