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10/21/2004 Technocrat13: No limitations on Dog's stuff?
Unfortunately, I still haven't had a chance to play yet, but this thread made me remember a question I had about character generation. Every category of dice pool in Dogs…
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Participants: Technocrat13, lumpley, Valamir.

10/21/2004 Doyce: [DitV] Dealing with *reservoir* Dogs :)
So this weekend, I sat down with three of my regular players and we made up characters for a Dogs game (completely separate from the solo game I'm running with…
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Participants: Doyce, DannyK, Blankshield, lumpley, nikola.

10/20/2004 Leningrad: Got it!
Book number 120 is in my hands as of this morning and it's so terribly good. I'm running a convention demo in a sea of Vampire and Dungeons and Dragons,…
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Participants: Leningrad, nikola.

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.

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.

10/19/2004 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.

10/17/2004 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.

10/16/2004 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.

10/15/2004 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.

10/15/2004 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 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.

10/14/2004 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.

10/12/2004 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.

10/11/2004 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.

10/11/2004 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.

10/6/2004 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.

10/4/2004 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.

10/3/2004 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.

10/3/2004 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 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.

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10/21/2004 lumpley: Understanding Roleplaying - Outline
[quote="I"][b]Understanding Roleplaying[/b] Lets open role-playing up and muck around in its guts. I'll lay out a state-of-the-art description of what really happens when you role-play, and we'll go from there.…
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Participants: lumpley, matthijs, Jonathan Walton, ScottM, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Piers Brown, pfischer, Roger, Paganini, nikola, kwill.

10/21/2004 Doyce: [DitV] Another batch of Dogs (my first actual group)
Last Sunday, I sat down with a couple of my regular players and we made up characters for a game of Dogs. This group and their story doesn't have anything…
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Participants: Doyce, ScottM, Mark D. Eddy, nikola.

10/24/2004 Spooky Fanboy: [DiTV] A question from one of the rapidly converting
Hi. I recently borrowed this game from a friend of mine. I really like what I see, especially how the game (from conflict to town creation) gradually escalates from personal…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, lumpley, Valamir, Ben Lehman, Hello Sailor.

10/24/2004 Albert the Absentminded: kpfs - how many points of evil . . .
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! The following is a right-wing parody of left-wing anti-Bush ads. Emphasis on _parody_. You have been warned. http://www.imao.us/sound/Halliburton.mp3 So, how many points of evil has Halliburton racked…
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Participants: Albert the Absentminded.

10/25/2004 jasonm: [DitV] Little Valley
Hey all, I'd value any feedback on this town. Things sort of escalated as I developed it until it was a serious, serious problem, and I'm wondering if I shouldn't…
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Participants: jasonm, ScottM, lumpley, Grover, Albert the Absentminded, DannyK, nikola, LordSmerf, Piers Brown.

10/25/2004 jasonm: [DitV] Dogs Play Aids
Hey all, I put together a couple of play aids that you might find useful. One is a 36-page booklet of biblical quotes on various topics relevant to Dogs ("Whoso…
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Participants: jasonm, nikola, LordSmerf, lumpley, johnmarron, Mark D. Eddy, Blankshield, Brand_Robins, olleolleolle, Vagabond.

10/26/2004 jasonm: [DitV] Territorial Authority
I'm reading Kingdom in the West right now, which has a Dogworthy predicament on every page. It's got me thinking about the Territorial Authority and its relationship to the work…
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Participants: jasonm.

10/27/2004 Doyce: Minor DitV Tool
Hey folks, While banging around on a DitV town tonight, I put together an excel spreadsheet that generates a group of six of NPCs (with free dice at the bottom…
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Participants: Doyce, jasonm, ScottM.

10/27/2004 eruditus: Life and Death in the West that Never Was
Check out my first DitV game here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/eruditus/5360.html#cutid1
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Participants: eruditus, ScottM.

10/29/2004 Hello Sailor: [DitV] Re-entering a conflict or entering late.
Let's say that August, Bartholemew, and Cuthbert are the Dogs. Damaris is August's pretty and intelligent (high Heart and Acuity) older sister, who's become a sorcerer. Edwin is Damaris' husband.…
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Participants: Hello Sailor, ScottM, lumpley, Doug Ruff, Dev.

10/31/2004 Leningrad: Spring River Branch
Here's my little town. I'm having a little trouble with some spots. I will make notes at the end with my concerns. 1a) Pride - Steward Edwin Goodson has come…
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Participants: Leningrad, jasonm, lumpley.

11/1/2004 eruditus: "Dogs in the Vineyard" meets "Blade of the Im
Check out my post on this subject and please tell me your thoughts... http://www.livejournal.com/users/eruditus/
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Participants: eruditus, nikola.

11/1/2004 matthijs: DitV review up at RPG.net
My first review at rpg.net everrrr... and you can read it here!
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Participants: matthijs.

11/1/2004 bcook1971: Just Received My Copy
Just thumbing through it .. It has a rough look; like a chapbook or a university press poetry anthology. Tell Drew Baker that the cover art sold me. And Forge…
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Participants: bcook1971.

11/5/2004 Spooky Fanboy: DiTV-help from modern times....
Have any of you picked up the newest issue of Details magazine? Don't let the fact that Ben Affleck's on the cover keep you away; there's an interesting article in…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Mike Holmes, Brand_Robins, Trevis Martin, lumpley, Blankshield, Albert the Absentminded.

11/7/2004 pfischer: Dogs from the Treasury Dept
I watched de Palma's The Untouchables again last night, and suddenly there was a scene that smelled so much of DitV: Malone: : You said you wanted to get Capone.…
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Participants: pfischer.

11/10/2004 olleolleolle: Online resources: Photos relating to DitV
I live in Denmark, which is flat and dark. So I use the Net for inspiration for Mountain stories. Lake Tekapo in some great photos. Church of the Good Shepherd…
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Participants: olleolleolle, Sander.

11/14/2004 urbanpagan: [DitV] Noob GM needs a bit of advice (long post)
Hello all. I was recently pressured (in a good way) :) to run DitV by my husband. You know him here as Technocrat13. Anyhoo, he recommended that I post in…
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Participants: urbanpagan, DannyK, lumpley, ScottM.

11/15/2004 DannyK: Hotwater Branch -- Feedback wanted
OK, I hope the Forgeites aren't getting Town Fatigue; after weeks of creative block, I finally got a town thrown together, and I'd appreciate some feedback. "Hallowed Ground" Players, Stay…
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Participants: DannyK, lumpley, jasonm.

11/16/2004 Blankshield: A new batch of Dogs rides out
My slavish fanboy raving has convinced some locals to try Dogs. We got together and did character creation last week, and they're quite hooked. Next week they'll hit their first…
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Participants: Blankshield, ScottM, Mike Holmes, lumpley, Paul Czege.

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