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9/30/2004 MajorKiz: finally get to run it
Well, we've arranged for a character creation session this friday, then I'll probably try and start an actual game the friday after that. The scheduling is a bit uncertain because…
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Participants: MajorKiz, lumpley.

9/30/2004 lumpley: Nat'l Protect Your Players Day
...Just for Ron. This isn't me moderating, it's me setting tone for the convo: Dogs can be a serious game that takes on no foolin' issues. I don't think we…
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Participants: lumpley, MajorKiz, Ron Edwards, nikola.

9/30/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs in the IRC
Okay, I'm done thinking about this game. Now I've got to play it. So, let's play Dogs on IRC, as soon as possible. I'm 12 time zones away from most…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, lumpley, DannyK, anonymouse, beingfrank, Blankshield, Doyce.

9/29/2004 rafial: Escalation
So I've got a rules clarification question prompted by Hans Christian Andersen's actual play report: Moving beyond that, watching a desperate opponent Escalate from Words to Guns, and beating him…
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Participants: rafial, Brand_Robins, Valamir, lumpley.

9/29/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs as Angels [Braindump]
So, I was thinking about Dogs when I was supposed to be thinking about my Fulbright research today, when I suddenly realized that I like Dogs for the exact same…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Mark D. Eddy, nikola, Brand_Robins, Ben Lehman, DannyK.

9/28/2004 nikola: Dogs' Rightitude
[quote]I think there's at least three separate meanings of the word "right" that need to be teased out here to discuss it -- right as in legally correct, right as…
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Participants: nikola, Brand_Robins, DannyK.

9/28/2004 Albert the Absentminded: An alternate view as to how the Dogs are always right
Think about what Dogs do afterwards - they go on to hold high position among the Faithful. You could argue that it's not the job of the Dogs to render…
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Participants: Albert the Absentminded, lumpley, DannyK, inthisstyle, clehrich, Jaik.

9/28/2004 Albert the Absentminded: Nit pick about female frailty
Why, in the name of the King of Life, are frontier women expected to be frightened of mice, insects, horses, or guns? -Albert
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Participants: Albert the Absentminded, ChefKyle, lumpley, Brand_Robins, MajorKiz, Ron Edwards, nikola, clehrich, dunlaing, DannyK.

9/25/2004 lumpley: Emergency Backup Website
Occasionally, septemberquestion.org goes down. That's life. I've put the Dogs in the Vineyard portion of lumpley games up on my old geocities site: http://www.geocities.com/lumpley/dogsources.html My blog and comment functions aren't…
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Participants: lumpley.

9/23/2004 Valamir: History and Morality (split)
[quote]I object to the worst elements of history being portrayed as moral,[/quote] There is no such thing as a moral or immoral historical event. Morality of a historical event can…
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Participants: Valamir, lumpley, nikola, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, clehrich, Sean, Mark D. Eddy, DannyK.

9/22/2004 pfischer: #52 arrived safely in Scotland
My copy of DitV arrived safely through my letterbox yesterday, and I have been reading it since, family life and sleep permitting. It looks and reads gorgeous, and I can't…
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Participants: pfischer, nikola, DannyK, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks.

9/21/2004 Ben Lehman: On Dogs and Doglikes
Hi everyone. So there have been a great plethora of threads recently, regarding playing other types of people in the positions of the Dogs. Some of these are groups which…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, DannyK, clehrich, nikola.

9/20/2004 MajorKiz: dice visibility
I want to run a playtest of DitV soon, but something occured to me just now that might make things problematic. My group plays scattered around our living room, with…
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Participants: MajorKiz, lumpley.

9/20/2004 DannyK: Commissars in the Vineyard
I was jogging today while listening to John LeCarre's latest novel on earphones, and it struck me that DitV could be used in the modern day, as long as you…
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Participants: DannyK, nikola, Ron Edwards, MajorKiz, lumpley.

9/20/2004 clehrich: Inquisitors in the Vineyard
As I mentioned somewhere else around here, I'm starting to collate some notes for a 16th-century Inquisitors supplement. But already I'm running into some trouble, and I wonder if you…
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Participants: clehrich, Ben Lehman, nikola, beingfrank, lumpley, MajorKiz, James Maliszewski, Valamir, Jonathan Walton, DannyK.

9/19/2004 Jonathan Walton: Death in Dogs?
This is mostly a Vincent question, but other people might have thoughts too. What is the point of character death in Dogs? What does it mean exactly and what purpose…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, lumpley, Christopher Weeks, nikola, Doyce.

9/19/2004 Jonathan Walton: The Cat Comes Back
So, the initial toughts on my mod-in-progress, Lions on the Precipice, were shared and bounced around in this thread. Now that I've gotten more settled here in China, I'm ready…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Albert the Absentminded, Emily Care.

9/19/2004 Doyce: [DitV] Stupidly detail-picky fallout question
Preface: got the book -- friggin' love the book. Color tone of following questions with that knowledge. --- K, in both the short- and long-term fallout lists, the first choice…
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Participants: Doyce, 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.

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.

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10/1/2004 nikola: Your religion
Hey, what religions do people here practice? There seem to be a disproportionate number of Jews, several Mormons, what else? I'm not asking about the nature of your specific practices…
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Participants: nikola, Brand_Robins, Trevis Martin, lumpley, clehrich, Clinton R. Nixon, inthisstyle, johnmarron, DannyK, Christopher Kubasik, Bob Goat, MajorKiz, Jonathan Walton, Mark D. Eddy, Albert the Absentminded.

10/1/2004 Trevis Martin: RPG Net review of Dogs
Is here http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10709.phtml Its a little abbreviated but a good showing none the less. best Trevis
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Participants: Trevis Martin, pfischer, Brand_Robins, nikola.

10/1/2004 jrs: "It's superb."
Ken Hite says nice things about DitV in his 9/30/04 Out of the Box column. Julie
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Participants: jrs, nikola, DannyK.

10/3/2004 Technocrat13: Are there others?
Ok, so the dice mechanism for Dogs is my new best friend in the world. The example in the book about the conflict between the initiate Dog and the coin…
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Participants: Technocrat13, Brand_Robins.

10/3/2004 Technocrat13: Cthulhu conflicts with Dogs mechanisms.
Ok, so in my other topic here, I mentioned how much I love the Dogs conflict resolution system. What I've never mentioned to anyone at the Forge before is my…
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Participants: Technocrat13, Brand_Robins, stingray20166.

10/3/2004 anonymouse: Other lumpley games you've played.
So, DITV is getting all the attention lately.. but has anyone played some of the other games up on the site? My brother and I tend to sneak in a…
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Participants: anonymouse, rafial, Paganini, Ron Edwards.

10/4/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs in the IRC - Initiations
Hoo doggie! Well, we've got a fistfull of great characters now, so why don't we start setting up some great initiation scenes for them. What we need for each character…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Blankshield, Ben Lehman, Doyce, DannyK, anonymouse, beingfrank.

10/6/2004 Leningrad: Dogs Demo
I'm going to be running a demonstration game of Dogs in the Vineyards at Con-Fusion at the University of Victoria in the next few weeks. Does anyone have any suggestions…
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Participants: Leningrad, lumpley, Ben Lehman.

10/11/2004 Mark D. Eddy: Well, I've got my copy now...
And, behold, it is very good. I even wrote a Haiku to celebrate: Dogs in the Vineyard: Wild West Saints fall into sin, Holy lawmen come. I may be alone…
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Participants: Mark D. Eddy, johnmarron, lumpley, DannyK.

10/11/2004 DannyK: First experiences running Dogs (very preliminary)
First, I'm really starting to appreciate the built-in narrativism in this game. Starting to run accomplishments over the weekend, I came up with a set up where the one character's…
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Participants: DannyK, Technocrat13, nikola, Paka, Albert the Absentminded.

10/12/2004 Blankshield: Relationships used as Traits
[quote="lumpley"] [quote]Discussion of using Relationships like Traits.[/quote] I'm just going to lose that battle over and over again, aren't I.[/quote] Yoinked from [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13031]this thread[/url] over in Actual Play. I'm curious…
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Participants: Blankshield.

10/14/2004 Negilent: Who do you listen to? Music in he Vineyard
Great game. Inspired by Johnmarrow's reply here. I had one thought, What music do you listen to both during game prep (as in town generation) and is it different from…
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Participants: Negilent, jrs, pfischer, ivan23, Jonathan Walton, jasonm, lumpley, Blankshield, lelak.

10/15/2004 ScottM: [DiTV] Fresno
This is the crunchy end of the Beginning in Fresno thread. First up, the characters: Benson Smith, Complicated History Acuity 4, Body 4, Heart 3, Will 4 Smooth…
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Participants: ScottM, lumpley.

10/15/2004 Paka: [DiTV] Job Gully
[b]Town[/b]: Job Gully [b]Pride[/b]: Elders in the community have courted those who are on their way to the northwest for the latest gold rush and it is destroying the town…
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Participants: Paka, DannyK.

10/15/2004 Negilent: Pine Hill, Prepping the first game.
Having ploughed trough the Pdf and eagerly awating the book I am gong to run a game this saturday. Appriciate any feedback on the following town: Pine Hill Image: The…
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Participants: Negilent.

10/16/2004 MajorKiz: RPGnet Playtest review
If anyone's interested, the playtest review I wrote for our DitV game is up on RPG.net.
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Participants: MajorKiz, lumpley.

10/17/2004 Doyce: [DitV] A new Dog hits the trail
Every other Saturday, my wife attends a game that I'm not involved in, leaving me and my kid to bang around the house for about six or seven hours. Lately,…
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Participants: Doyce, clehrich, stingray20166, DannyK, lumpley.

10/19/2004 Negilent: Ties or have I missed something
In our first game the following situation cropped up time and time again. I had a pair left, say 4 and 6, and raised: "he pushes past and runs down…
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Participants: Negilent, Brand_Robins, Ben Lehman, lumpley.

10/19/2004 Emily Care: chapter and verse
Just read the latest write up of the dogs IRC campaign. Very cool stuff. It struck me that all these passages folks come up with make great copy. You could…
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Participants: Emily Care.

10/20/2004 jenskot: [DitV] Environmental Factors?
Quick question. Was there a reason environmental factors were left out of conflict resolution? Attributes, Traits, Relationships all affect conflict but basic things like cover and distance have been left…
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Participants: jenskot, Albert the Absentminded, DannyK, Blankshield, nikola, lumpley.

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