Miskatonic Monday #466: Ooze On The Moor

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: Ooze on the Moor

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Authors: Ben Frayle

Setting: England, late Victorian era

Product: Scenario

What You Get: Fifty-six page, 16.75 KB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: What trouble oozes on the moor?

Plot Hook: Death of navvies hinders a vital transport link

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, thirty-six NPCs, three handouts, four maps, one Mythos spell, and two Mythos monsters.

Production Values: Decent

Pros

# Scenario for Cthulhu by Gaslight

# Highly detailed setting 

# Easy to adjust to earlier in the Victorian era

# Could be adjusted to Regency Cthulhu: Dark Designs in Jane Austen’s England with some effort

# Mucophobia

# Skeletophobia
# Scelerophobia

Cons

# Needs a slight edit

# Investigators possess the Cthulhu Mythos skill

# Not clear how the ooze can be destroyed

# Investigation feels underpowered

Conclusion

# The rumour table is the best way to nudge the Investigators

# Isolated moorland mystery with an unclear solution 

Miskatonic Monday #434: The Nebelgast

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: The Nebelgast

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Steven Troch

Setting: Belgium, 1885

Product: Scenario for Cthulhu by Gaslight

What You Get: Fifty-six page, 20.17 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: The horror of the harmonica

Plot Hook: A missing socialite exposes a dark bargain...
Plot Support: Staging advice, six pre-generated Investigators, eleven NPCs, seven handouts, two floor plans, and one Mythos monster.

Production Values: Good

Pros

# Scenario for Cthulhu by Gaslight in Belgium!

# Emphasis on social status has potential for interesting roleplaying
# Interesting selection of pre-generated Investigators

# High production values

# Misophonia

# Entomophobia

# Teraphobia

Cons

# Needs an edit

# Repetitive in places

# Promising investigation ends in a bug hunt

Conclusion

# Interesting set-up and setting

# Investigation never fully delivers on its promise