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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.

8/27/2004 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.

8/26/2004 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.

8/26/2004 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.

8/25/2004 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.

8/24/2004 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.

8/17/2004 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.

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.

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.

7/21/2004 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.

7/6/2004 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.

7/2/2004 bluegargantua: Toast Points
Hey Vincent: Dogs in the Vineyard rocks on toast! I really love it. Feel free to quote me on the back of the book. :) Tom
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Participants: bluegargantua.

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.

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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.

9/9/2004 Sean: The Puppies Strike Back
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/09/shooting.dog.ap/index.html
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Participants: Sean, lumpley.

9/9/2004 Christopher Weeks: DiTV with Mormons and religiosity in gaming
I'm looking back over what I've written and I'm not sure if any of this is apropos. This is one of those notes that I might just back over and…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, nikola, lumpley, Jonathan Walton, Brand_Robins, Valamir, MajorKiz, Paka, DannyK, inthisstyle.

9/9/2004 johnmarron: [DitV] Dogs as an actual TV show?
Vincent Have you given any thought to pitching the concept of DitV as an actual, honest to goodness TV show? Even before I got my copy of the .pdf and…
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Participants: johnmarron.

9/12/2004 DannyK: DitV online
OK, I'm waiting for my book to arrive and thinking about running a one-shot as a forum game. I figure we can handle the funky dice mechanics using an OOC…
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Participants: DannyK, Brand_Robins, Jonathan Walton, pfischer, nikola, Christopher Weeks.

9/13/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs in the Mountains
So, while I was in the shower today, I had a thought. What if one day the Dogs, including at least one native convert (PC or NPC), rode into one…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, MajorKiz, Christopher Weeks, Ben Lehman, DannyK, nikola.

9/13/2004 lumpley: DitV: Saint's Rest
Here's Daniel Coffin's RPGnet post about his first town: dogs in the vineyard: saint's rest (my players, get lost). I'm pointing to it because the town hits me, as I…
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Participants: lumpley, nikola, ScottM.

9/13/2004 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Appropriate reading?
Over here people mention a couple of books: A Study In Scarlet and Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896 And I got to thinking that a…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, lumpley, Jason Durall, Ron Edwards, JasperN., Neal, Danny_K, avram, oreso, Noclue, Nathaniel, David Artman.

9/16/2004 bluegargantua: Forcing an Outcome
OK, Me and Cadmus, just stumbled in on Branch Zachary having an affair with Avigail. We catch them going at it through the bedroom window and you say that Avigail…
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Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley, DannyK, Ron Edwards, charlesperez, Ben Lehman, Valamir, nikola, jrs, inthisstyle, Jonathan Walton, clehrich.

9/16/2004 bluegargantua: Heresy Lite
Hey, OK, so there's murder which is just a Sin and Murder which is Really Bad News. The former is simply a crime of passion or opportunity or injustice. The…
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Participants: bluegargantua.

9/17/2004 charlesperez: DitV Rules Question: Groups in Conflict
When a group of NPCs take part in a conflict, each member of the group gives +2d6 to the group's stats. On the other hand, when NPCs help a PC,…
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Participants: charlesperez, lumpley.

9/18/2004 DannyK: DitV Questions on Demons and Bad Dogs
I've had an evening to think about the book, and some questions are jumping around in my head. First, I'm wondering why the rules emphasize so strongly that Demons are…
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Participants: DannyK, lumpley.

9/18/2004 DannyK: Hamites in the Vineyard
I was thinking, if I'm going to run a game set in the US in the 1800's, it would be a shame not to address the racial issue. Also, I…
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Participants: DannyK, lumpley, nikola, Jonathan Walton, Joe_Sixpack.

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