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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.

11/10/2004 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.

11/7/2004 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.

11/5/2004 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.

11/1/2004 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.

11/1/2004 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 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.

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.

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.

10/27/2004 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.

10/27/2004 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.

10/26/2004 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.

10/25/2004 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.

10/25/2004 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.

10/24/2004 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.

10/24/2004 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.

10/21/2004 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.

10/21/2004 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 Albert the Absentminded: Halloween in the Vineyard
Slow night at work last night, and I got really, really, bored. Since I'm jazzing on DitV right now, my subconcious started coming up with stuff. Here's an idea for…
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Participants: Albert the Absentminded, lumpley, jasonm, Paka.

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.

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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.

11/18/2004 ashultz: Banthas in the Vineyard
I was thinking of running a Star Wars game with a load of young Jedi wandering the galaxy before I got DitV, and upon receiving the game I was struck…
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Participants: ashultz, Clinton R. Nixon, nikola, Paka, DannyK, Brand_Robins, John Harper, Trevis Martin, Technocrat13, Solamasa, jknevitt, charlesperez.

11/19/2004 lumpley: Creating Towns
In another thread, DannyK wrote:Is it just me, or is town creation a lot tricker than it looks? I can create a whole pocket universe in Nobilis in a fraction…
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Participants: lumpley, Technocrat13, Blankshield, ivan23, Grover, jasonm, Mark D. Eddy, lelak, Paka, Leningrad, ScottM, Solamasa, urbanpagan.

11/20/2004 jasonm: [DitV] Dogs for a Crowd
I'd value any advice on an irritating problem I have. I have a steady weekly game session with anywhere from 6 to 8 players. Obviously, the problem is that I…
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Participants: jasonm, Albert of Feh.

11/21/2004 jasonm: [DitV] Fort Lemon Branch
Comments welcome! I'm anxious to hear what you think. FORT LEMON BRANCH The name is misleading. Fort Lemon is a trading post and Territorial Authority garrison on the eastern-most edge…
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Participants: jasonm, Mark D. Eddy, lumpley, Doyce, Blankshield, Ghost.

11/24/2004 jasonm: [DitV] Pinyon Creek Branch
My previous towns were both "blood and thunder", with demons and sorcerers and mayhem, so I challenged myself to tone it down a bit and still keep it interesting. This…
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Participants: jasonm, Hello Sailor, lumpley, nikola.

11/24/2004 Solamasa: [DitV] Simple Conflict Question
The rules stipulate that if you can't See a Raise, you have to Give. But who Gives when you can See just fine, but neither you nor your opponent(s) can…
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Participants: Solamasa, lumpley, Vagabond, nikola.

12/6/2004 Matt Wilson: messing around with Otherkind, poking it with a sharp stick
I had this cards idea based on otherkind, sort of a cousiny generic kind of game. You get dealt X cards, at least three, maybe more via some character ability.…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, nikola.

12/7/2004 Vagabond: [DitV] Questions, questions...gimme your two cents
Hi all, I just got DitV last week and was intching to try out the game mechanic since it was so different from anything I'd seen before. A few problems…
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Participants: Vagabond, Technocrat13, lumpley.

12/10/2004 Leningrad: [DitV] play by post on rpg.net
If anyone is interested, i'm starting a PbP on RPG.net in the next little while. Details and signup here.
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Participants: Leningrad.

12/12/2004 Vagabond: Dogs in other Genres
I was looking through the forum and saw a couple of references to Dogs games in other genres. The CoC: Delta Green one looked especially cool. Anyways, I thought…
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Participants: Vagabond, Clinton R. Nixon, Blankshield, Doyce, jasonm, nikola.

12/12/2004 jasonm: [DitV] Questions spawned by my first session
I posted a session I ran yesterday in actual play, and running Dogs for the first time really raised some questions. Also, this session was really a test of the…
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Participants: jasonm, Blankshield, lumpley, Leningrad.

12/15/2004 Paka: Some Dogs High Points
I'm not sure when or if I'll have time to write up the other DitV games I've run so I thought I'd write up a couple of high points of…
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Participants: Paka, Emily Care, lumpley.

12/15/2004 Negilent: Dog High Points, a copy of Paka's post
Like Judd I havn't got the time to post my game here so I'll sneak in on his post. When I played my Hope Junction branch the End Game caught…
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Participants: Negilent, Paka, Emily Care.

12/16/2004 Grover: Escalation question
I'm posting this way too early in the morning, so forgive me if I babble. I have a concern about how escalation works. Suppose I start a conflict, and I…
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Participants: Grover, lumpley, Emily Care, Yokiboy, jasonm.

12/16/2004 Technocrat13: [DitV] Looking for input on finishing this Town.
So, I started putting a town together for Dogs this afternoon. I had in mind two things; I'd like music to be at the heart of the problem, and I'd…
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Participants: Technocrat13, Blankshield, inky, jasonm, olleolleolle.

12/17/2004 Grover: Let me tell you about my characters
Now that I'm on break, I'm writing up all the things that I haven't had a chance to during school. Here are a pair of characters I thought up after…
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Participants: Grover.

12/18/2004 jknevitt: McCarthyists in Tinseltown
DitV, except with Communist-hunters in Hollywood in the 1950's. Discuss.
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Participants: jknevitt, clehrich, Leningrad, olleolleolle, nikola, Roger, jc_madden.

12/18/2004 olleolleolle: Jospeh Smith entrapped by fake brass plates
[url=http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/josephsmithkinderhookplates.htm]Joseph Smith and the Kinderhook Plates[/url] is a tract that tells the quite funky story of a Joseph Smith-period hoax-finding trick. The set-up: give the old coot of a prophet…
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Participants: olleolleolle, jasonm, Brand_Robins.

12/22/2004 johnmarron: Mildly Amusing Dogs Synchronicity
When I first got my copy of Dogs I was happy to see a list of appropriate period names included. For some reason, innapropriate names are something that really bugs…
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Participants: johnmarron, jasonm, Leningrad.

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