Miskatonic Monday #456: Blank Canvas

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: Blank Canvas: A Duet for Call of Cthulhu

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Steve Anderson

Setting: Arkham, USA

Product: One-shot

What You Get: Thirty-four page, 8.52 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.” – Frank Barron

Plot Hook: The death of an artist must be important. If only you could remember why?  
Plot Support: Staging advice, three pre-generated Investigators, four NPCs, four handouts, twelve portraits, two Mythos tomes, and one Mythos spell.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# One Keeper, one Investigator scenario

# Pleasing adjustments to fit the twenties, fifties, and eighties

# Surprising degree of research

# Easy to adjust to other cities

# Part of the Miskatonic Repository Halloween 2026 Collection

# Artophobia

# Neophobia
# Athazagoraphobia

Cons

# Surprising degree of research

Conclusion

# Classic, but well done amnesia to revelation scenario 

# When the madness of the muse is the madness
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