Miskatonic Monday #436: The Limehouse Piper

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 Limehouse Piper

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: James Killick

Setting: London, 1893

Product: Scenario for Cthulhu by Gaslight

What You Get: Thirty page, 4.98 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Murder stalks the streets of Whitechapel... Is this the return of Jack the Ripper

Plot Hook: Murder!!!
Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, seven NPCs, eleven handouts, four floor plans and maps, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Prequel to Tournament of Shadows

# Scenario for Cthulhu by Gaslight that plays off Jack the Ripper, but does not use or explain Jack the Ripper

# Nicely done pre-generated Investigators
# High production values

# Works as one-shot too

# Phasmophobia

# Phonophobia

# Homichlophobia

Cons

# Backgrounds to the pre-generated Investigators underwritten

# Needs an edit in places
# Does not explain its connection to Tournament of Shadows

Conclusion

# Solid murder investigation on the streets of fog-bound London

# Works as one-shot or a prequel