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6/3/2005 mtiru: [DiTV] Monument Creek Branch
This is the first town I've created. (Don't read it, Ryan T.) Any feedback y'all have would be much appreciated. It is inspired by Ken Russell's "the Devils" What's going…
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Participants: mtiru, Simon Kamber, Brendan.

6/2/2005 Warren: Bows
Just a quick question, and I think I've got an answer to it, but I'm not sure. How are Bows handled? 1) Do they Escalate as Fighting (Body+Will) or Gunfighting…
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Participants: Warren, Technocrat13, nikola, sirogit.

6/2/2005 Ul: [DiTY] The Waterfall branch
So this will be my second town in dogs, with Simon as one of the players (so don’t read this Simon) and the groupd that he has been GM’ing the…
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Participants: Ul.

6/1/2005 Sean: Dogs Prep Questions
Well, it appears that I'm going to be running this game by the end of the month! My players all come to the Forge, so I don't want to post…
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Participants: Sean, lumpley, cdr, Danny_K.

6/1/2005 Solamasa: [Otherkind] Moonlight value
In anticipation of a potential up-coming Otherkind game: Does the numerical value of a person's Moonlight have a use outside of determining if that person will be unhappy in an…
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Participants: Solamasa, lumpley.

6/1/2005 mtiru: [DiTV] Questions from Actual Play
I'm posting these questions at the urging of my co-player and GM, who posts here as lin swimmer. Since he created the town, he can probably fill in the Town…
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Participants: mtiru, lumpley, Wolfen.

5/28/2005 Wolfen: Having trouble sorting out the progression...
So okay. I got this town idea, one I wanted to be downright vicious. I tried to start with the progression of sin, but everything feels all disjointed and out…
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Participants: Wolfen, TonyLB, nikola, sirogit.

5/27/2005 Simon Kamber: Monotonous conflicts
Started this thread because of an issue that arose when I ran Fall Valley Branch. The problem is that the conflicts sometimes get monotonous. Especially the ones that are about…
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Participants: Simon Kamber, sirogit, Technocrat13, Valamir.

5/27/2005 ptikachu: [DitV] Fort Lemon Ate My Dogs!
Total Party Kill. And the players all pushed for it. They never Gave. It was awesome. This was a couple of weeks ago. I was actually short for time, and…
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Participants: ptikachu, sirogit, jasonm.

5/25/2005 rrr: Dust Creek:Quick Town I made for first proper game with DitV
Hello, well finally last night I got to run a full (if a little short) session of Dogs. It was an impromptu thing when one member of the regular game…
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Participants: rrr, Wolfen, Simon Kamber, nikola.

5/25/2005 joshua neff: anyway is anywhere?
Vincent, what's going on with your website and blog? I haven't been able to get to it all day, and Andy K. apparently hasn't either, since he made a post…
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Participants: joshua neff, Matt Wilson, lumpley.

5/21/2005 lazarus: [DitV] IRC dicebot
I've been writing, over the past few days, an IRC dicebot to use for Dogs in the Vineyard. Currently: it'll roll dice and keep track of them, allow you to…
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Participants: lazarus.

5/20/2005 Simon Kamber: [DitV]Life and death conflicts
This is one of those theoretical threads that aren't based in something I've actually experienced in play. In the Dogs rulebook, there's an example conflict on page 51-52 that describes…
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Participants: Simon Kamber, Technocrat13, TonyLB, neelk, xenopulse, Wolfen, lumpley, Blankshield, lazarus, Brand_Robins, cdr, Sydney Freedberg.

5/19/2005 Matt Wilson: Dogs and advancement and its impact on play
Sadly, I can only ask about Dogs stuff from the outside, since I haven't got the chance to play it yet. Did I mention how sad that is? But this…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, lumpley, Technocrat13, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, neelk, nikola, Wolfen, Bankuei.

5/17/2005 neelk: [DitV] Dogs using Sorcery
Through a somewhat complicated path, three of the five Dogs in my game have decided that using sorcery, while in general bad, is really okay in this particular situation. They…
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Participants: neelk, jasonm, lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, Sydney Freedberg, Simon Kamber, ravenx99, nikola, Wolfen.

5/17/2005 sirogit: Misclleanous DitV questions.
1. If character's are in a group conflict, can they choose not to Raise when its their turn, without giving? Here's the situation I'm thinking of: Dog A wants to…
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Participants: sirogit, Simon Kamber, lumpley, cdr, Eero Tuovinen, Technocrat13, Brand_Robins, Ul.

5/16/2005 ravenx99: [DitV] Finally got started on our game...
We finally got started, but we only got through character creation. (I finished the details of my town at the last minute, so I didn't post it for review. I'll…
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Participants: ravenx99, Simon Kamber, lumpley.

5/15/2005 Dev: Rotating Dogs - does it work?
I'm lucky enough to have a few really good players that I'm itching to introduce to Dogs. Sweet! I also have quite a few friends who would be great for…
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Participants: Dev, Technocrat13, lumpley, ptikachu, nikola, urbanpagan, Simon Kamber.

5/15/2005 mister.ribbit: Etiquette in this forum
I read through the Forge etiquette post, but I have a question more specific to this forum. A fairly large number of posts are simply descriptions of DitV branches, and…
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Participants: mister.ribbit, Technocrat13, lumpley, hix, Brendan, Mike Holmes.

5/10/2005 lin swimmer: (DitV) film recommendation for Gojoe
Has anybody heard of the Japanese film Gojoe by Sogo Ishii? It just dawned on me the other day that if guns were swords, Mormonism were Buddhism, and the old…
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Participants: lin swimmer, Technocrat13, nikola, Yokiboy, Wolfen, Valamir, lumpley, Emily Care, b_bankhead, ptikachu.

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6/10/2005 Andrew Morris: Website down?
Do I have the wrong URL, or is http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/lumpley.html down?
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Participants: Andrew Morris, mister.ribbit, Tobias, Jasper Polane, lumpley.

6/10/2005 GB Steve: Buffalo Run - my first game.
I ran my first game last night. It went pretty well, although not as nicely a James Holloway's did last Saturday. For a start we had four players, two of…
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Participants: GB Steve, Technocrat13, nikola, demiurgeastaroth, TonyLB, James Holloway, Wolfen, Simon Kamber.

6/11/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Out of Dice
Here's a question. I use my last dice to Raise, and you use your last dice to See (successfully Blocking). Neither of us have dice left, so who wins? I'm…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Technocrat13, Wolfen, Simon Kamber, lumpley.

6/12/2005 sirogit: Multiple Reverses
Say that all four Dogs are facing down a sorcerer. During one round, the sorcerer reverses the blow on all four of the Dog's raises. What does he use for…
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Participants: sirogit, Technocrat13, Wolfen.

6/12/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [DitV] GM Starting Conflicts
Is the following okay: GM: "Brother Jacob tries to persuade you to marry him to Sister Amelia." PC: "Nope, I won't do that." GM: "He's insistent - we have a…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Ul, Simon Kamber, lumpley.

6/13/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [DitV] "Cool Applications Of Conflict Resolution"
I have a couple of questions about this section of the rulebook (see subject title). First an unrelated question, expect that it is a potentially cool application of conflict resolution.…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, nikola, lumpley, Blankshield, sirogit, Technocrat13.

6/15/2005 lumpley: Website Back!
Now with comment previews! And searching! www.lumpley.com -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley, ScottM.

6/18/2005 PercyKittenz: [DitV] First session, paths for "What's Wrong"
I've been reading over the PDFs for Dogs that I just recieved while waiting for my book to arrive in the mail and planning a few of the first episodes…
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Participants: PercyKittenz, mtiru, bcook1971, Wolfen, TonyLB, lumpley.

6/18/2005 TonyLB: The Sin of Goodness
Writing up a post on this thread, I realized something that I think is going to be a great tool for me in Dogs. Many of the best sins are…
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Participants: TonyLB, nikola, demiurgeastaroth, PercyKittenz.

6/19/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [DitV] The Law
I'm a little unclear on the ramifications of the Territorial Authority, and having Sheriffs that don't answer to the Faith. I can see the potential for conflict between Dogs and…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Ul, sirogit, lumpley, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, James Holloway, GB Steve, Warren.

6/20/2005 epweissengruber: [DiTV] in Conventions and Demos
Hey lumpley! I will be running a demo of DiTV at a convention. Can I deliver the emotional twists of the game in 2 hours, or am I kidding myself?
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Participants: epweissengruber, lumpley.

6/22/2005 ironick: A Little Teaser for You All
Hello all! Some of you may or may not remember this thread here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14494&highlight= It was a write-up of the conclusion of my group's DitV campaign, complete with inter-party kill…
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Participants: ironick, Technocrat13, lumpley, jrs, Wolfen, TonyLB, Solamasa, nikola, xenopulse, CCW, joshua neff.

6/24/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [DitV] Light and Dark
About half my players seem to have a problem with the religious overtones in the setting. They don't care about religion, they want to play bad-ass cowboys, dammit! Now, I…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, sirogit, Ul, nikola, pete_darby, lumpley.

6/27/2005 lin swimmer: [DitV] new town in progress (mechanics too?)
Hello everyone. First off, if anybody from my gaming group has stumbled across this, please don't read it (Jason, Ryan R, Ryan L, Geoff). You'll ruin any surprises you might…
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Participants: lin swimmer, Wolfen, TonyLB, nikola.

6/27/2005 epweissengruber: New DitV Wiki and Lexicon
http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Toronto_Dogs_In_The_Vineyard:Main_Page The Toronto Indie RPG group is starting up a game. I am running a Wiki on RPG.net and conducting a Lexicon game to build up some of the details…
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Participants: epweissengruber, jasonm.

6/28/2005 Sean: Bankers Rejoice!
I was on here to bug Vincent with some more LDS questions but I went to lds.org and answered them meself. Mormons can charge usurious interest rates: lds.org wrote: Usury…
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Participants: Sean, Sydney Freedberg.

6/29/2005 coffeestain: [DitV] Relationship Dice
Hello. I'm a short time lurker, first time poster. Dogs is the first game that's inspired me to post here (or, for that matter, to play), so thank you for…
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Participants: coffeestain, Matt Wilson, Wolfen, ironick.

6/29/2005 Andrew Morris: Advice on demoing DitV for one player
Does anyone have advice and/or experience running Dogs in the Vineyard for only one player? It seems that the system would lose some of its luster without multiple players, but…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, lumpley, jasonm.

6/30/2005 Andrew Morris: [DitV] Choosing traits
Now, I know (or at least, I think I know) that Dogs in the Vineyard isn't supposed to be "balanced" or support Gamism. But I do have a question. Why…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, mister.ribbit, lumpley, TonyLB, coffeestain, PercyKittenz, sirogit, Wolfen, Simon Kamber, demiurgeastaroth.

7/1/2005 jasonm: The Town that Isn't
Last night I watched Bad Day at Black Rock, which was good, and played out like a very interesting "bizarro world" Dogs story. The way the story goes, the Dog…
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Participants: jasonm, Doug Ruff, PercyKittenz, Wolfen.

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