Miskatonic Monday #452: Of Them

uch 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: Of Them

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Aleksi Martikainen, Sean Liddle, Jef Wilkins, Jukka Särkijärvi, and Petri Leinonen

Setting: Minnesota, 1921

Product: One-on-One Scenario

What You Get: Twenty-two page, 3.32 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: How far can a father trust a son when the son is in pain?

Plot Hook: My son is missing!
Plot Support: Staging advice, two NPCs, three handouts, three maps, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Good

Pros

# Spiritual sequel to Of Fathers

# One Investigator, one Keeper scenario

# Linear and straightforward to run

# Compartmentalised scenes easy to run

# Explores the consequences of the father’s choice

# Can be used as the background for an Investigator

# Great maps

# Eisoptrophobia

# Dermatophobia

# Capgras Delusion

Cons

# Linear plotting

# No Pre-generated Investigator(s)

Conclusion

# Clearly mapped out

# Underplayed, but desperately personal encounter with the Mythos