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7/1/2004 Ben Lehman: Current Game Text -- First Look Critique
I look at this text with the assumption of a "new to role-playing" reader. Is this a correct assumption? Introduction: It is never, ever a good idea to toot your…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley, inthisstyle, nikola.

6/21/2004 inthisstyle: More Thorough Playtest
OK. I actually got together a thorough playtest from character creation through a "something's wrong" scenario (I just used one from the draft rules for this, actually). This game creates…
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Participants: inthisstyle, lumpley.

5/21/2004 xiombarg: thought experiment
So, okay, I've been reading the version of the manuscript that Vincent sent me, and it's much clearer than the outline, that's for sure. I like the intro to the…
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Participants: xiombarg, lumpley, Emily Care, nikola.

5/7/2004 xiombarg: King of Life and other stupid questions
Okay, I've finally gotten around to starting to read the rules, and possibly run a game of this. I have two stupid questions: 1) What's the "King of Life"? Is…
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Participants: xiombarg, lumpley, bluegargantua.

4/26/2004 Ben Lehman: Dice Selection
So I have this problem with the game as it is written. For a while, I've been wringing my hands over whether to post it or not, because it's a…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley, bluegargantua, Emily Care, ScottM.

4/16/2004 Emily Care: Describing Dogs
Hey there, There was some discussion here a while back about how to talk about Dogs. People can get all squicked out about the Mormon thang. With that in mind,…
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Participants: Emily Care, lumpley.

4/15/2004 Emily Care: Rolling up some Dogs
Salutations, A Vacation in Godsland Taking a break from our main campaign, Vincent, Meguey and I did some playtesting of Dogs last night. We just did character creation. Meg promised…
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Participants: Emily Care, lumpley, nikola, Meguey, bluegargantua.

4/7/2004 bluegargantua: Your first mini-supplement
Hi, So last night we were disucssing old TV shows (as gamers often do) and I was reminded that Battlestar Galactica was really just "MORMONS IN SPAAAAACE!". And then of…
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Participants: bluegargantua, xiombarg, Albert the Absentminded, pfischer.

3/30/2004 ScottM: Quiet around here
Are people out playtesting this puppy, or mostly waiting for the revision? Do you want to release the DiTV rewrites in chunks, or are you trying to finish it all…
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Participants: ScottM, Emily Care, lumpley, nikola.

2/25/2004 Ben Lehman: d4 traits and Fallout
More issues-- In fallout, you are given a choice from a list of options. This is Cool and Good, and needs to stay around. However, given that d4 traits only…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley, bluegargantua, nikola.

2/24/2004 Ben Lehman: Scene Entrance
So, say that Bob is over there, in some other scene across town, and he is suddenly doing something really cool that totally applies to my character and I want…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

2/24/2004 Ben Lehman: Ceremonies
Okay, the Ceremonies, at present, need work. A *lot* of work. I think that the change of ceremony to Trait from Conflict is a good one, but there are some…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, bluegargantua, lumpley.

2/21/2004 Ben Lehman: Demons and Preservation
I don't like the way that Preservation, as a demonic power, works. It seems counter-intuitive to everything else in the system, which is all about throwing extra dice down on…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

2/21/2004 Ben Lehman: Obliteration and Sins
So I have been reading Sophocles and interviews with people who were sexually abused as children, which have combined with Dogs in my head into a incestuously breeding, heavily polygamist,…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

2/20/2004 bluegargantua: Dog Dispensation
Hey, I think we had this conversation before under the heading: "Can a Dog order a regular Faithful to violate Church Law? For example, could the Dog order the Faithful…
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Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley.

2/19/2004 bluegargantua: Skipping Steps
Quick question: Could you go from Pride to Sin to Murder? We've got Bro Ben thinking he deserves a second wife and sleeping with Sis Abigail. Bro Fred, Sis Abigail's…
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Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley, Jake Norwood.

2/17/2004 bluegargantua: Streamlining Character Creation
Y'know what I think is the hardest part about character creation? Figuring out your initial die pools. It's a little wonky. You have to sit there and figure out which…
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Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley.

2/13/2004 Librisia: Krista goes Dog Wild
Okay, I like Tom's idea from the "Religion in the Game" thread. Let's run with MY problems creating a character. Yeah, I know that's not exactly what this thread is…
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Participants: Librisia, lumpley, Paul Czege, bluegargantua, Jake Norwood, nikola.

2/12/2004 Jake Norwood: Orrin Porter Rockwell
I mentioned this guy in an earlier post, but he is SO important to what I think Vincent is trying to do here that I'm going to reiterate it with…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Emily Care.

2/12/2004 lumpley: An Important Lesson to Learn
If you're explaining and you say "you know, like in a western," and your (potential) players just keep staring at you blankly? Dogs is going to be a hard sell.…
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Participants: lumpley, inthisstyle, Emily Care, bluegargantua, nikola, Jake Norwood, Jonathan Walton.

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7/6/2004 lumpley: Online Playtesting?
Hey everybody. Jack Bauer asked me to ask you all if anybody's doing any online playtesting or wants to. He wants to play over AIM, he doesn't want to run.…
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Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman.

7/21/2004 ks13: Impressions from a demo of Dogs
This goes way back to a demo that Vincent ran at Vericon, many, many months ago. I have to say that I was rather lost, or perhaps that the concept…
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Participants: ks13, nikola, lumpley.

7/23/2004 Jonathan Walton: Lions on the Precipice: A Mod
With Vincent's blessing, I'm working up a supplement/companion/mod for Dogs in the Vineyard (which is, in my humble opinion, the most eye-opening thing I've read since My Life With Master.…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Meguey, bluegargantua, lumpley, Emily Care.

7/26/2004 lumpley: The Mountain People: an Uncertain Future
This week on the Discovery Channel. No, I'm lying. The Mountain People's future is clear. They get to stop being the demonic enemies of the Faith and start being just…
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Participants: lumpley, Jonathan Walton, inthisstyle, Ben Lehman, xiombarg.

8/17/2004 lumpley: Woo Hoody Hoo!
I have the books in my hot little hand! I'll see some of you at GenCon. Check it out: http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/dogs.html -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley, Ben Lehman, ScottM, Ron Edwards, jrs.

8/24/2004 Emily Care: Word getting out
Great thread about Dogs at rpg.net. --Em
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Participants: Emily Care, nikola, Paka, lumpley, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes.

8/25/2004 lumpley: Welcome Anew!
The soopaseekrit stage of this forum was fun and helpful, so thanks to everyone who participated. Now this is the lumpley games forum, exposed to view and scrutiny! Please don't…
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Participants: lumpley, nikola, Spy vs. Spy, Ethesis, baron samedi, Warmachine3002.

8/26/2004 inthisstyle: Other Religious Traditions
OK, one of the things mentioned regarding Dogs was the ability to move it around to other religious traditions, like 17th century Puritans, or European Catholics, or whatever. Drawing on…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Ron Edwards, Dev, Paka, clehrich, lumpley, Sean, JamesSterrett.

8/26/2004 ethan_greer: kpfs: Prep advice, please
Hey, a lumpley forum. Cool. So, I want to run kpfs for my game group (that's "kill puppies for satan" to you unenlightened types), but I'm a little lost on…
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Participants: ethan_greer, bluegargantua, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

8/27/2004 Ben Lehman: [Dogs] Spending Those Free Dice
I am ashamed. I was a proof-reader for Dogs, and there's the rule that slipped through the cracks. This giant *fuck-off* major rule. And I missed it. I'm sorry to…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley, nikola.

8/29/2004 Paka: Structuring a Dogs in the Vineyard Campaign
I've been thinking how I would work if it my current Dogs in the Vineyard one-shot turned into a campaign. I think the first game should be in a town…
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Participants: Paka, lumpley.

8/29/2004 8bitjunkie: [Dogs] Dice
I am ordering DitV on the 1st and I realize I have some time on my hands to prepare as the lumpley games press is smokin'. From the RPG.net thread…
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Participants: 8bitjunkie, lumpley.

8/29/2004 Christopher Weeks: DitV comments
Bought it at GenCon. It was one of the games I didn't even have to think about. I knew it would be good, but Holy Cow! I should even be…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, lumpley, nikola.

9/1/2004 Paka: DitV Town: New Gidea
[b]Town:[/b] New Gidea [b]Pride:[/b] Master Printer was on his way to kill the man who raped his sister when the bandits attacked. Through fate he killed the leader and the…
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Participants: Paka, DannyK, Emily Care, lumpley, S, nikola, Albert the Absentminded.

9/2/2004 lumpley: Jonathan Tweet Picks Dogs
[url=http://www.jonathantweet.com/jotgamesgcpicks.html]Jonathan Tweet's Pick of GenCon[/url] A few of you know just how psyched I am. [quote="Jonathan Tweet"]I almost didn't pick Dogs because I didn't want a game with characters that…
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Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paka, ScottM, Matt Wilson, bluegargantua, hardcoremoose, DannyK.

9/2/2004 lumpley: A Big Important Addition to Dogs' Fallout
Add to the Long-term Fallout list: Rewrite your coat's description to include permanent damage. Reduce your coat's dice if it's called for. Add to the Reflection Fallout list: Rewrite your…
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Participants: lumpley, jrs, inthisstyle.

9/3/2004 lumpley: Making Before the Flood Playable
[url=http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/flood.html]Before the Flood[/url], as we all know, is broken or incomplete. [quote="Eric Minton"]The game needs structure, and I think the best way to give it that would be to introduce…
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Participants: lumpley, Emily Care, Eric Minton, nikola, Valamir.

9/7/2004 Brand_Robins: Gadianton Robbers
I’ve been over the .pdf of Dogs and I’ve got my first game coming up this weekend. (It isn’t clear yet if I’ll be a player or GM, but I’m…
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Participants: Brand_Robins, ScottM, lumpley, Valamir.

9/8/2004 MajorKiz: Shipping times?
When my wife (Jennifer Sronce) ordered Dogs in the Vineyard for me about two weeks ago, we got an email saying that there'd be a follow-up email when it actually…
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Participants: MajorKiz, lumpley, Nick Pagnucco.

9/9/2004 mgrasso: [DitV] Delta Green in the Vineyard
It just came to me as I thought of campaigns to run when I return to Boston. Delta Green/Call of Cthulhu... run using the Dogs in the Vineyard system. It's…
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Participants: mgrasso, lumpley, nikola, MajorKiz, Rob MacDougall, Yokiboy, Nev the Deranged, TickTock Man.

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