Miskatonic Monday #454: John Witch

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: John Witch

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Michał Pietrzak

Setting: Today

Product: One-on-One One-shot

What You Get: Eleven page, 422.29 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: John Wick, Wizard

Plot Hook: “Revenge is sweet and not fattening.” – Alfred Hitchcock
Plot Support: Staging advice, three NPCs and lots of Henchmen, three Mythos artefacts, and one Mythos entity.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# One ‘Revenger’, one Keeper scenario

# Mythos as martial arts

# Straightforward to run

Cons

# A Rat Thing is a terrible substitute for a beagle puppy

# Obvious plot
# Needs a slight edit

# No pre-generated ‘Revenger’

Conclusion

# Ridiculous cult assassin action flick

# No pre-generated ‘Revenger’, really?