Miskatonic Monday #357: The Haunted Swamp

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 Haunted Swamp: A 1920s ghost story in Tropical Queensland

Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Author: Jane Routley

Setting: Queensland, Australia

Product: Scenario
What You Get: Twenty-seven page, 5.52 MB Full Colour PDF
Elevator Pitch: “Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.” – Aleister Crowley

Plot Hook: Drain the swamp of its crocodiles and its secrets

Plot Support: Staging advice, four pre-generated Investigators, six NPCs, five handouts, one map, one supernatural monster, and lots and lots of crocodiles.

Production Values: Reasonable

Pros

# Detailed NPCs

# Easy to adjust to other eras

# Straightforward investigation

# Great cover

# Phasmophobia

# Herpetophobia

# Limnophobia

Cons

# Needs an edit
# Needs some Sanity losses

# Would work better with more developed Investigator backgrounds

Conclusion

# Queensland Gothic ghost story

# Straightforward, easy-to-run investigation that is heavy on the interaction