Miskatonic Monday #432: The Bail Jumper of St.Isidore

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 Bail Jumper of St.Isidore

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Alexander Nachaj

Setting: Canada, 1928

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Thirty-four page, 1.86 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: A missing artefact leads to a missing man leads to a man eater

Plot Hook: When a monster crosses your path...
Plot Support: Staging advice, five handouts, four NPCs, one map, one Mythos spell, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Tidy.

Pros

# Very straightforward investigation
# Easy to slot into an existing campaign
# Easy to adjust to other times and places

# Easy to run as a convention scenario

# Plays to the Private Detective tropes

# Entertaining NPCs

# Boxophobia

# Gynophobia

# Diokophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Very straightforward investigation

# Plays to the Private Detective clichés

# Handouts are text handouts, even for the photographs

Conclusion

# Straightforward investigation with some entertaining NPCs

# Plays to the tropes and clichés of the Private Detective genre and is easy to adapt