Miskatonic Monday #463: Safe Space

 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: Safe Space

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Sabrina Haenze

Setting: Arkham, USA

Product: One-shot

What You Get: Seventeen page, 18.601 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: Sometimes it takes an overwhelming an overwhelming breakdown to have undeniable breakthrough.

Plot Hook: A therapy session.  
Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated patients, five NPCs, two handouts, and ‘one’ Mythos monster.

Production Values: Plain

Pros

# Horror as therapy, therapy as horror

# Confronts every patient with their fears

# Solid Keeper advice

# Teraphobia

# Phobia of Judgement
# Phobophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Will require a Session Zero

Conclusion

# Group therapy hell as everyone experiences everyone’s horrors

# Engagingly staged one-shot