Miskatonic Monday #453: The Man Who Sold the World

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 Man Who Sold the World

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Maverick Haenze & James Bunnell

Setting: London, 1973

Product: One-shot

What You Get: Twenty-nine page, 5.35 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: David Bowie In the Mouth of Madness

Plot Hook: Moondust is missing!
Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, thousands of NPCs, two handouts, and three Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# From sleaze to stardom and beyond!

# One-shot convention scenario

# Straightforward to run

# Phonophobia

# Blenophobia

# Melophobia

Cons

# Linear plotting
# Obvious mystery

Conclusion

# Per ardua ad astra

# Sparkly glam rock horror from outer space!