Totally-OT, But I Need the Help

[Legbreaker]

Very true, and we know that horse steroids are often abused by weightlifters and the like. It seems likely to me that many other animal medications may also be used in humans (with possible unwanted side effects).
The trick will be in having a character of sufficient skill in Biology, Chemistry and Medical to make the necessary allowances and perhaps even tinker with the chemical structure/purity/etc of the animal medicine.

Given the game is often set in 2000 and nuclear war commenced roughly three years earlier, I doubt there would be much prewar animal medicine left in usable/safe condition. It also seems highly doubtful there'd have been any significant production post nuke, with those few surviving laboratories concentrating on human needs first and foremost.

Herbs and other natural remedies would likely be the only recourse for most farmers and animal owners, with even military animals being treated with techniques from the 19th century (I see human medicine being equivalent to roughly the 1920's on the whole).

[weswood]

Originally Posted by kcdusk

Has anyone ever been in a game where a "dogs" or "wild dogs" encounter has been generated? I remember back when i started with T2K that i treated this as "no encounter". Later on, i could see some benefit to gaming out a "dog" encounter especially where a referee was involved. Dogs could ransack a camp if the PC's left it unattended, dogs could wake characters during the night with loud howling or if they were creeping around camp they could generate noise the PC's would feel the need to investigate further than the glow of the camp fire. Dogs could also draw attention to the characters so that an opposing force found them.

My question though is this, has anyone shot a dog for food?

I had a real life encounter with a pack of dogs last year, if there wasn't a fence I finally got out of, or if they'd have knocked me down, I'd be history.

[natehale1971]

One of the things about Post-Apoc gaming... I use to freak out my GM by finding animal hostpials to get to, and 'salvage' (the nice way to say LOOT) the meds, and medical equipment. In a zomibe post apoc campaign one of the other PCs was really badily injuried and needed sugery. The party was going to try and get into a hospital that had been overrun early on by the zombies and you could see the gleam in the GM's eye for the TPK that they were about to get into.

And My character (the new PC who was a US Army national guard infantry squad leader who had manned a roadblock for one of the quarantine zones, and in his civilian life worked as a security guard) said... "STOP, are you crazy? That place is crawling with more zombies than we have bullets, even if we stop by the damn armoury first. Let's find an animal hospital... it's got all the same equipment and medinces. And it sure as hell wasn't the place people infected with RV (reanimate virsus) would go to for help."

Needless to say the GM wasn't pleased that he didn't get his TPK... but the other Players (and PCs) were very thankful to my (and my character's) quick thinking.

the animal hospitals that deal with large animals like thourobred horses is usally the best... or those where rich people have large dogs. beause you will find CAT Scans and MRI machines in those kinds of areas. In fact there are three Animal Hospitals around me right now that has everything you'd find in a hospital.... one of them actually has a full lab set up, while the other two normally sends samples to a big lab when necessary.

[ArmySGT.]

Eat the Dogs.