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2/6/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Otherkind] Questions and Ideas
I'm planning to start a short campaign of Otherkind beginning next thursday. Both the theme and the dice-allocation mechanic really appeal to me, and I look forward to seeing this…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Paganini, Valamir, xiombarg.

2/4/2005 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Town Tracker
Hey all, I'm writing an application that allows you to enter the towns you create for your Dogs to visit. I'm still tweaking things here and there, but if you…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, ScottM, Paka, inthisstyle, Yokiboy.

1/30/2005 Brand_Robins: Breaking a Player
In a short Dogs game I ran last night (I will do a full Actual Play write up at some point, I promise) there came a juncture at which one…
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Participants: Brand_Robins, Yokiboy, Jason L Blair, lumpley, Wolfen, nikola, Negilent, Mike Holmes.

1/29/2005 immlass: Same Dog, different groups
I got my copy of DitV a couple of weeks ago and have been enthused about running and playing. I've got a number of people who might be interested in…
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Participants: immlass, Christopher Weeks, lumpley.

1/24/2005 Bailywolf: [Hungry Desperate and Alone] A couple of questions
I glanced at this gamelet a few months back, but didn't really read it. Over the weekend, I actually read it and thought about the crunchy bits presented in the…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Ben Lehman, lumpley, Victor Gijsbers.

1/20/2005 rafial: DitV wins Outie
The King of Life (and Ken Hite) have smiled upon DitV, giving it the Best RPG Outie for 2004. Congrats Vincent!
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Participants: rafial, inthisstyle, Ben Lehman, Yokiboy, Mike Holmes, Bob Goat, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paka, beingfrank, nikola, Wolfen, ScottM.

1/18/2005 ScottM: [General theory] How RPG rules work
Vincent began an interesting discussion on his blog, here about how RPG rules work. He laid out his premises…
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Participants: ScottM, pfischer, Bankuei, lumpley.

1/18/2005 Negilent: Dogs in the Back Yards
[b]Dogs in the Concrete Jungle.[/b] You are a crack DEA undercover team. You infiltrate the worst criminal gangs in a covert game of trust and lies. You have only your…
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Participants: Negilent, Trevis Martin, Yokiboy, lumpley.

1/11/2005 matthijs: [DitV] Escalating during Accomplishment?
We're testing out chargen. Monica's playing Jane, who wants to Accomplish overcoming her distrust of parents, people and God. I'm the GM. Pivotal moment: Jane and her mentor Steward are…
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Participants: matthijs, lumpley.

1/10/2005 Tim Alexander: One-shot Dogs w/limited time.
Hey Folks, I'm looking for suggestions on how people would run a Dogs one-shot given that you have a time window of maybe 2-3 hours of play available. Basically a…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, lumpley.

1/9/2005 Wolfen: Dogs, Post-Apocalypse
Hey all, So my gaming group is about to start a DitV game, but rather than canon setting, we're playing in a Post Apocalyptic setting. This is mainly due mostly…
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Participants: Wolfen, nikola, pasoliati, Lxndr.

1/9/2005 Sean: Examples of Skilled Play in Conflict Resolution
Hi all - I am definitely enjoying reading this game. I also groove on the gradual working in of dice to the narration of conflicts, and of course on the…
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Participants: Sean, Yokiboy, Piers Brown, Harlequin, lumpley, nikola, Tim Alexander.

1/8/2005 jasonm: Polygamy Primer
The Utah Attorney General has published an interesting PDF on modern polygamy, intended for responders to domestic abuse. http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/polygamy/The_Primer.pdf The glossary, section on characteristics and practices, and barriers to leaving…
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Participants: jasonm, nikola.

1/8/2005 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Automatic NPC generation
I know it doesn't take forever and it isn't rocket science, but I cooked up an Excel spreadsheet that generates a batch of six NPCs as per Vincent's instructions in…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, lumpley.

1/3/2005 Lxndr: Dice
How many 4 siders, 6 siders, 8 siders, and ten siders would you suggest I have if I wanted to supply a full group of (say) 4 + myself, out…
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Participants: Lxndr, Paka, nikola.

1/2/2005 Yokiboy: Web Site Status?
Hey Vincent, What's the status of your Web site? The entire www.septemberquestion.org site is currently offline. TTFN, Yokiboy
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Participants: Yokiboy, lumpley, nikola, Emily Care.

12/30/2004 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Accomplishments
The book presents the only kind of improper accomplishments that a player can come up with as ones that invalidate the whole "dogness" (or survival) of the character. Is that…
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Participants: Christopher Weeks, Nick Pagnucco, Technocrat13, jasonm, Spooky Fanboy, lumpley, nikola.

12/23/2004 Yokiboy: How do you sell Dogs to your players?
Or perhaps the subject should be, "Help me sell Dogs to my players!" They agree that the conflict resolution mechanics are sweet, but hate the setting. I knew it would…
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Participants: Yokiboy, jc_madden, Paka, Blankshield, nikola, Noon, Technocrat13, lumpley, Dev.

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.

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.

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2/9/2005 Roger Eberhart: [DitV] Question regarding disarms
If someone gets disarmed, does the new owner get to roll the dice for the weapon? What if the original owner had already rolled for that weapon?
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Participants: Roger Eberhart, lumpley.

2/10/2005 Leningrad: [DitV] Town Building Patterns
I'd always seen conflict in the game as the element that would bring out the personality of the players. It's the part that lays bare all our prejudices (through our…
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Participants: Leningrad, Lxndr, Christopher Weeks.

2/10/2005 pete_darby: DitV Plot generator?
http://motleyvision.blogspot.com/2005/02/idea-first-lines-for-mormon-fiction.html My Favourites: 2. Elder Thatcher's companion strongly believed in the 'baptize 'em all -- let the branch president sort 'em out' school of missionary work. 5. It took 12…
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Participants: pete_darby.

2/10/2005 Vaxalon: [Dogs] Okay, Jews?
1> Tree of Life. HUGE symbolism for Jewish mysticism a.k.a. kabalah. 2> Coats. The connection with Joseph is clear, at least to me. 3> Symbols on the cover - these…
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Participants: Vaxalon, lumpley, nikola, Brand_Robins.

2/11/2005 Paka: The Train Back East
The train winds through the hills and into the plains, until the desert lands of the Faithful are a distant memory, a white line on the horizon that is eaten…
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Participants: Paka, nikola, TonyLB.

2/11/2005 bcook1971: Reading through Dogs
I had to go to Mississippi for some training this week. With 5 minutes to pack, I looked around my room and thought, what shall I bring to the airport…
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Participants: bcook1971, lumpley, nikola.

2/11/2005 Solamasa: How Dogs made me reform my wicked ways
I've always been a maniac for character back-story. A real maniac. I'm one of those types GMs complain about: I'm the guy who writes page after page of purple prose.…
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Participants: Solamasa, lumpley, Bankuei.

2/11/2005 Bob Goat: Bad Dog
Judd's Train Back East thread got me thinking. Would it be possible to play bad dogs (kinda like fallen angels)? I mean does that change the entire dynamic and make…
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Participants: Bob Goat, lumpley, TonyLB, Eero Tuovinen.

2/12/2005 Vaxalon: What if they go back to a town?
James and I want to know what you think of a conversation we had in #indierpgs tonight. <James_Nostack> what if they go back to the same town later on?…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, Paka, immlass.

2/13/2005 Vaxalon: Banthas in the Vineyard, Redux
Rather than engage in thread necromancy, I started this new topic. The old topic is at: Banthas in the Vineyard What I'd like to do here, is assemble all of…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, Doug Ruff, lumpley, TonyLB, zach20, lupis42, avram, nikola.

2/13/2005 Michael Bogue: Dark Tower in the Vineyard
Greetings all! I've been looking for a roleplaying system that would accurately reflect Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series - would DitV be an appropriate book to pick up? I was…
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Participants: Michael Bogue, TonyLB, Christopher Weeks, lumpley, Valamir, Leningrad, Clinton R. Nixon, Paka, nikola.

2/14/2005 Jason Newquist: [Dogs] Has it happened yet?
Well. I've been reading the Forge for a couple years now, on and off you know, and don't think I've ever bothered to post. Until now. Was over in Actual…
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Participants: Jason Newquist, Ron Edwards, Paka, nikola, Wolfen, Negilent, Vaxalon, lumpley, beingfrank, Jinx, Ben Lehman, Brand_Robins, timfire.

2/14/2005 Paka: Dogs in the Convention Hall & Post Game Chat
I think I will be able to create characters and run 'em through a town in under 4 hours. I tried to test my theory this weekend when I ran…
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Participants: Paka, Wolfen, Negilent, Michael S. Miller, lumpley, nikola, Tim Alexander.

2/15/2005 Vaxalon: Not understanding ceremony
I'm not understanding the role of ceremony in Dogs. Sorcerers, demons, the possessed, and the souls of the Faithful can’t ignore ceremony performed with authority. That means that when your…
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Participants: Vaxalon, inky, Brand_Robins, lumpley, TonyLB.

2/15/2005 Paka: Regarding Accomplishments
I really dig this part of the game and I wanted to write a post about what I try to do with 'em when I run Dogs. 1) Have a…
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Participants: Paka.

2/15/2005 Vaxalon: Dog in the Vineyard
Has anyone ever played Dogs 1-1? How does it work for solo play?
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Participants: Vaxalon, Paka, nikola, Wolfen, TonyLB.

2/18/2005 lumpley: My Sad, Down Website
Yes, it's down, it's not just you. It does this sometimes. I don't know when it will be back. Soon, I'm sure! Pretty sure. Meanwhile we can have conversations here,…
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Participants: lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, xenopulse, pfischer.

2/20/2005 rayblayxxx: killing puppies for satan
you are not killing puppies for satan--you are killing puppies for your own sick, warped mind--Get a life you jerk--San Quentin is where you belong-You are one of them low-…
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Participants: rayblayxxx, Ron Edwards, nikola, Clinton R. Nixon, Leningrad, Wolfen, ejh, joshua neff, Chris Geisel, Brand_Robins, Bret Gillan, lumpley, jrs, quozl, Miskatonic.

2/24/2005 HOT: Dogs - Our first game
This isn't really an actual play, as I don't have all the details of the other characters and setting. It's more of an "first impressions" post. I hope Matthijs can…
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Participants: HOT, lumpley, matthijs, nikola, Roger Eberhart.

2/25/2005 Solamasa: Washing the blood off our hands
I was struggling this morning with how best to memorialize the end of our Dogs in the Vineyard game. A memorial was surely justified, I reasoned, as last night's session…
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Participants: Solamasa, xenopulse, nikola, lumpley, ironick, LordSmerf, urbwar, Valamir, Bankuei, FruitSmack!.

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