Sherrydown Enquirer 4: Bad Dog

Security cameras and hostile architecture are creeping into Sherrydown's streets and parks. Once-bustling markets and meeting-places are becoming grim and unwelcoming. Everyone's got their heads down and eyes on the ground. People who've lived here all their lives have started feeling like trespassers in their own town.

Something in the night is in its element in this new Sherrydown. Something with headlamp eyes and a howl like a burglar alarm. It's appointed itself the town's guard dog - and all the citizens trespassers...

This issue of the Sherrydown Enquirer contains everything you need to run the mystery Bad Dog, as played on the Merely Roleplayers podcast, for your Monster of the Week roleplaying group. What will your players do differently from the Merely Roleplayers cast?

The Enquirer is also an in-world artifact from Sherrydown, the setting of Merely Roleplayers' Main House production, Vigil. Your diligent Enquirer is a concerned citizen who's noticed strange things happening in Sherrydown. But how to wake up their oblivious neighbours to this unsettling truth? Only an unofficial community newsletter has that power!

Monster hunting in the UK

Sherrydown is an original setting for Monster of the Week games, originally created for Merely Roleplayers. This Middle England market town boasts cobbled streets, family-run pubs, medieval ruins, and pristine ancient woodland. But the sins of England are just as ancient. Built atop the bones of the past, and undermined by the austerity politics of the present, only your hunters stand between Sherrydown and total collapse.

The PDF contains:

• Bad Dog, a mystery for use with the roleplaying game Monster of the Week by Michael Sands - complete with monster, locations, bystanders, and mystery countdown
• Lore to help you set your roleplaying games in Sherrydown, Brackshire, the setting of Merely Roleplayers' Main House production, Vigil
• 17 pages, formatted to work with assistive devices

To run Bad Dog for your gaming group, you will also need a copy of the roleplaying game Monster of the Week by Michael Sands. Monster of the Week is copyrighted by Evil Hat Productions, LLC and Generic Games.

To preview Bad Dog in play, check out Vigil: Bad Dog Acts 1-5 on the Merely Roleplayers podcast.