Miskatonic Monday #459: Upstairs, Downstairs

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: Upstairs, Downstairs

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Gaz Bowerbank

Setting: Regency Era England

Product: One-shot

What You Get: Sixty-Two page, 17.62 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Sometimes, the masters really are the monsters

Plot Hook: Everything must be exact for the master’s and mistress’ perfect weekend for their guests
Plot Support: Staging advice, five (six) pre-generated Investigators, fourteen NPCs, eight handouts, one map, one Mythos ritual, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Radically different scenario for Regency Cthulhu: Dark Designs in Jane Austen’s England

# House party horror in which the servants have to do all the work

# Some deliciously dreadful NPCs for the Keeper to roleplay

# Lots with which to torment the Investigators

# Can involve Investigator betrayal

# Erythrophobia

# Basilophobia
# Eisoptrophobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit
# A busy affair with a lot going on

# Can involve Investigator betrayal

Conclusion

# They may be your elders and betters, but that does not mean that they know better

# A gallery of grotesques run rampant and the servants suffer; glorious

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