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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Setting: Christmas, Arkham in the 2000s
Product: Scenario
What You Get: Five page, 2.91 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Sleigh bells ring
Are you listening?
In the lane
Snow is glistening
A beautiful sight
We’re happy tonight
Walking in a winter wonderland”
– Walking in a Winter Wonderland, Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard Bernhard Smith.
Plot Hook: A cold snap is not the time for a zombie flash mob
Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, three NPCs, three handouts, and one Mythos monster.
Production Values: Clear
Pros
# Easy to adapt to other cities with rivers
# Easy to adapt to any time in the last century
# Includes notes for adapting to the 1920s
# Easy to adapt to other cold-based Mythos entities
# Chionophobia
# Frigophobia
# Somniphobia
Cons
# Needs a slight edit
# Layout is cramped
# Does not explore the situation’s Mythos origins in depth
# Demands a scene of mass sleepwalkers in the snow and resultant Sanity loss
Conclusion
# Short, sharp, sub-zero scenario that is easy to prepare and run
# Mythos elements and origins are slightly underwritten
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