Thanks for this video. I'm now preparing to run Very Good Dogs. I recently got excited about a Bronze Age sword-and-sorcery RPG, but I decided I needed some more experience as a GM before taking on something so involved. When I stumbled upon VGD, I knew this was what I needed. I have more familiarity than most people with the real-world counterpart of the setting because, about a year after the Chernobyl event, I started working for the government as a Soviet analyst. I've also been fascinated with how the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has become an unplanned wildlife preserve. A common trope of the horror genre is that outsiders - e.g., children, elderly immigrants, priests or scholars out of favor with their hierarchy - are the only ones who understand what is going on, while the usual authority figures are blind to the supernatural reality. Making telepathic dogs the heroic outsiders striving to hold back the incursion of evil actually makes sense within the supernatural horror genre conventions and the post-human setting. The one resource I would really like to facilitate my planning would be a map of the Chernobyl region. I know dogs can't read maps, but for a GM who thinks in spatial and visual terms it would be very useful.
Thanks for this video. I'm now preparing to run Very Good Dogs. I recently got excited about a Bronze Age sword-and-sorcery RPG, but I decided I needed some more experience as a GM before taking on something so involved. When I stumbled upon VGD, I knew this was what I needed. I have more familiarity than most people with the real-world counterpart of the setting because, about a year after the Chernobyl event, I started working for the government as a Soviet analyst. I've also been fascinated with how the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has become an unplanned wildlife preserve.
A common trope of the horror genre is that outsiders - e.g., children, elderly immigrants, priests or scholars out of favor with their hierarchy - are the only ones who understand what is going on, while the usual authority figures are blind to the supernatural reality. Making telepathic dogs the heroic outsiders striving to hold back the incursion of evil actually makes sense within the supernatural horror genre conventions and the post-human setting.
The one resource I would really like to facilitate my planning would be a map of the Chernobyl region. I know dogs can't read maps, but for a GM who thinks in spatial and visual terms it would be very useful.
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