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2/28/2005 Andrew Morris: [The Nighttime Animals Save the World] Rules questions
I'm planning on playing Nighttime Animals once the weather gets nicer. But, after reading the rules again, I have a few questions I'd like to clear up first. 1) Can…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, lumpley.

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!.

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.

2/20/2005 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.

2/18/2005 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.

2/15/2005 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.

2/15/2005 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: 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.

2/14/2005 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.

2/14/2005 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.

2/13/2005 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.

2/13/2005 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.

2/12/2005 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.

2/11/2005 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.

2/11/2005 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 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 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.

2/10/2005 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.

2/10/2005 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 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.

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3/2/2005 coxcomb: Dogs summary for the reading impaired?
So I've convinced my group that playing a couple of sessions of Dogs will be a good thing in preparation for playtesting my own current project. I think (from reading…
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Participants: coxcomb, Dev, lumpley.

3/11/2005 Tobias: [DitV] Augurann - a medieval setting (YGADesque)
All, YGAD has been written as DitV setting. Renamed Augurann to be a bit more distinct. Enjoy, comments welcome, I hope to play it once the hectic life I'm living…
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Participants: Tobias, lumpley, Valamir, daMoose_Neo.

3/11/2005 John Harper: Dogs on the Desktop
I had a few spare hours at work the other day, so I put together a desktop image for DitV. You can grab it here: http://www.shootingiron.com/dogs/dogs_1280.jpg It's ironic that a…
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Participants: John Harper, Paka, jporrett, Andrew Morris, lumpley, apparition13, Karasu, demiurgeastaroth, Iskander, Technocrat13, Everspinner, Neal, dazzler96, Ben Lehman.

3/13/2005 whytcrow: [DitV] Police procedurals
I was introduced to DitV by a friend today and rather liked it. We enforced justice (well, enforced that we were the only ones allowed to enforce justice), banished demons…
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Participants: whytcrow, Wolfen, Paka, TonyLB, Tobias, beingfrank.

3/13/2005 Roger Eberhart: Anyone from Long Beach or OC, California?
I've been itching to try DitV, but the group I play with now is lucky if we can get together once a month. I thought I'd try a long shot…
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Participants: Roger Eberhart, Brand_Robins, mataglap.

3/15/2005 Paka: Bridal Falls City
I've been thinking about a new city for first-time Dogs players and a possible town for a one-shot I might run in a few weeks. I got thinkin' big but…
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Participants: Paka, Wolfen, beingfrank, Stigg.

3/16/2005 Eric Minton: [DitV] My Amber group tries character creation
I’m finally getting a chance to run Dogs, yay! We went through character creation last night, and we should get to play the first town next week. I met David,…
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Participants: Eric Minton, Wolfen.

3/20/2005 LordSmerf: [DitV] Blue Skies
We have two Dogs written and initiated. That was last session, and it was fun. We didn't get to a Town. We play Monday, here's what I've got. If you're…
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Participants: LordSmerf, Doug Ruff, Wolfen, Eric Minton.

3/21/2005 Lxndr: Scattered Random Questions About DitV
1. A reading of the text suggests that all participants in a conflict should be defined at the outset (and thus, no additional participants joining during the conflict). Is that…
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Participants: Lxndr, lumpley, Wolfen, Simon Kamber, beingfrank.

3/22/2005 Eric Minton: [DitV] Stillwater Branch
Here's my first town, which I hope to have ready for Thursday's game. I'd originally planned to have it stop at Sin and Demonic Attacks, but it kind of spiraled…
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Participants: Eric Minton, Wolfen, ScottM, TonyLB, jasonm, lumpley, Hello Sailor.

3/23/2005 Trevis Martin: [DitV] Question about injury from non-physical fallout
My group was creating some more DitV characters last weekend and when running an initiatory confilct I had a character who had to 'take the blow' with 4 dice. It…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Brand_Robins, Leningrad, Wolfen, Lxndr, nikola, Doug Ruff, lumpley, gorckat.

3/23/2005 chris_moore: OtherJedi dark force dice
Okay, so my friend Michael is planning to run a Jedi game using a variant of the basic Otherkind dice categories. The four categories are "Do" (there is no try),…
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Participants: chris_moore, lumpley.

3/23/2005 Eric Minton: [DitV] Contradicting Doctrine
What happens if the Dogs take an action that directly contradicts the teachings of the Faith? What if they dedicate Sister Rachel as the town Steward, or marry Brother Thomas…
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Participants: Eric Minton, Paka, MikeSands, Wolfen, Valamir, Brand_Robins, nikola, The_Tim, Simon Kamber, TonyLB, Ron Edwards.

3/24/2005 sirogit: [DitV]Why must Escalation be met?
Hello, Just bought the Dogs in the Vineyard book and let me tell you I am 100% wowed. For starters its the first book that ever convinced me of the…
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Participants: sirogit, Tobias, TonyLB, nikola, lumpley.

3/24/2005 Betsi-G: [DitV] Difficulties with demonic attacks
Brendan, Matt, Alisanne, if you're reading this, you might want to stop here. I'm plotting. Don't feel you have to, I guess, but you will have prior knowledge when I…
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Participants: Betsi-G, lumpley, Christopher Weeks, nikola, joshua neff, Wolfen.

3/24/2005 Betsi-G: [DitV] More rotating-GM info, thoughts, etc
As you may know, my group of DitV is playing on a rotating-GM basis. (Vincent, apparently, is following this avidly! *grin*) Since it seems to be of interest, and since,…
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Participants: Betsi-G, BrendanC, immlass, Wolfen, lupis42.

3/25/2005 FlamingMoose: [DitV]Oakview Branch, first try
I just got my Dogs in the Vineyard pdf earlier this week, and I'm hankering to try it out this weekend. I got some friends excited too, thanks to Kit's…
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Participants: FlamingMoose, nikola, Betsi-G, Eric Minton, BrendanC, lumpley, xenopulse, Wolfen.

3/25/2005 immlass: [DitV] Mob Rule
Last night, the Dogs rolled into the town of Cut'n'Shoot and found themselves in the middle of a lynching, with four Dogs talking, and then shoving and eventually punching, Bros.…
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Participants: immlass, xenopulse, Wolfen, Simon Kamber, TonyLB, Doug Ruff.

3/25/2005 MCroft: [DitV] Questions about Escalation
If a conflict is escalated and the action does not obviously affect anyone but does advance one side's goal, how do we determine who has to see it? If a…
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Participants: MCroft, TonyLB, Simon Kamber, avram, nikola, Wolfen, lumpley.

3/25/2005 MCroft: [DitV] Questions about Helping
Helping seems to change the balance of power pretty significantly. Can more than one person help the same see? Can you help a see when you also have to see…
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Participants: MCroft, Simon Kamber, TonyLB, nikola, xenopulse.

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