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8/29/2005 Judaicdiablo: [DitV] "Minmaxing Dogs is playing Dogs well."
In this post(http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=15320.msg163633#msg163633), Vincent said that "Minmaxing Dogs is playing Dogs well."  As an avid MinMaxer (I don't see it as min-maxing, I see it as using my tools efficiently)…
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Participants: Judaicdiablo, Eero Tuovinen, John Harper, lumpley.

8/28/2005 MCroft: [DitV] How to decide what happens when you take a blow?
I'm not sure how to handle taking the blow in a number of situations.  In the back-and-forth of an undecided conflict, does the declared action (which the opponent cannot ignore)…
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Participants: MCroft, lumpley.

8/28/2005 MCroft: [DitV] I don't want to say 'yes' and I don't want to put dice on the table...
I had a pretty serious train wreck in my last session.  The dogs had just successfully gone in, guns blazing, and won a conflict with two posessed women for the…
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Participants: MCroft, Blankshield, lumpley, TonyLB, Christopher Weeks, James Holloway.

8/26/2005 John Kim: Group Helping Strategies
OK, so as I'm preparing to GM my second Dogs game, I'm pondering group strategies.  In my first run, the players would tend to approach group conflicts by all rolling,…
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Participants: John Kim, mtiru, cdr.

8/26/2005 lumpley: Can the Dogs Define Sin Away?
[quote author=Pôl Jackson link=topic=16439.msg175504#msg175504 date=1124950780] There's an idea in the game that I find problematic: that the Dogs can redefine sin so that it isn't sin anymore. But that's a…
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Participants: lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, TonyLB, Pol Jackson.

8/23/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Congratulations are in order
Vincent, congratulations with carrying away the coveted Indie Game of the Year 2004 Award! And the one for Most Innovative RPG too, of course.
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, lumpley, lazarus.

8/22/2005 Pyromancer: Conflicts you can't escalate
Hello there! Last time we played, one player wanted to start a conflict similar to: "Do I convince him to not draw his gun". I had a problem with this,…
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Participants: Pyromancer, Selene Tan, lumpley.

8/21/2005 two_fishes: What I am enjoying in DitV
There's some things I've realized, in thinking about my character sheet. A lot of the fallout I've had to take, I've turned into d4 attributes. In one instance from the…
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Participants: two_fishes, ScottM, epweissengruber, lumpley, nikola, Frank T.

8/19/2005 jasonm: [DitV] Coachwhip Cut-Off
Feedback encouraged!  Help me tighten this town up.  I took it all the way up to hate and murder, but am considering toning it down - what do you think>…
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Participants: jasonm, ScottM, Pol Jackson.

8/19/2005 Judaicdiablo: Firefly in the Vineyard [Long]
This is a new topic that is based off the one started <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16313.0">here</a>.  ***** After I watched the Firefly boxed set, I began working on a Firefly RPG almost…
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Participants: Judaicdiablo, ScottM, tonyd, ADamnFox, Sydney Freedberg, John Harper, lumpley.

8/16/2005 KingOfFarPoint: Player vs GM Assertion Rights
I recently read a DitV thread that said something along the lines of: the characters went round the town and tested everyone for possession. No one was possessed.…
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Participants: KingOfFarPoint, lumpley, Bankuei, Wolfen.

8/14/2005 GB Steve: [DitV] Fort Lemon, again.
I ran Fort Lemon for the third time yesterday. This run was a Consternation in Cambridge for first time players. I didn't use the fort time because we only had…
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Participants: GB Steve, Jonas Karlsson, jasonm.

8/12/2005 Pol Jackson: [DiTV] Problematic Town Creation - Hobbestown
This is my first post at the Forge. Hi! I recently purchased Dogs, and intend to run it for my game group Real Soon Now. I came up with a…
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Participants: Pol Jackson, Technocrat13, jasonm.

8/11/2005 KingOfFarPoint: Are Belongings Really A Temptation To Escalate?
in No limitations on Dog's stuff? http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?t=13172 Vincent says: Belongings tend to contribute their dice high up in the escalation process. A die in a gun is pressure to…
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Participants: KingOfFarPoint, lumpley, TonyLB, rrr.

8/11/2005 KingOfFarPoint: Conflict Resolution, especially whether Traits and Things can be invoked en-mass
The way I read the resolution mechanics in the rules it says: (1) The initial dice are only for Stats and Relationships, not for Traits or Things (p34-35) (2) On…
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Participants: KingOfFarPoint, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley, James Holloway.

8/11/2005 KingOfFarPoint: Revisiting Towns
(Disclaimer: I am reading through Dogs, but have yet to play). Assuming I have it right that the GM is forbidden to input any external judgement on whether the Dogs…
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Participants: KingOfFarPoint, TonyLB, Mark Woodhouse, Adam Dray, lumpley, Eric Minton, Eero Tuovinen.

8/10/2005 Noon: Joining a PBP, rules blind
Heya, My curiosity about dogs got to be too much. Initially I was going to just watch a game that was about to happen at rpol.net. But it floundered as…
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Participants: Noon, rrr, beingfrank, lumpley, ADamnFox, nikola, Grover.

8/9/2005 Mark Woodhouse: Kitbashing and the Faith
Hey Vincent, if you wouldn't mind, could you elaborate a wee bit on this the real purpose of the Faith is to give the PCs no back door 'coz it's…
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Participants: Mark Woodhouse, lumpley, Solamasa.

8/9/2005 anonymouse: Dogs in the Black: brainstormin' required
In a nutshell: stick the Faith out on the Firefly border worlds; the Alliance is the a rather meddlesome "East" back in the Core. It's DitV with a change of…
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Participants: anonymouse, Andrew Morris, Christopher Weeks, GB Steve, Negilent, lumpley, John Harper, avram, majcher.

8/4/2005 mtiru: [DiTV] San Miguel Branch
hey, gang, this is the second town I've created.  The first had some problems which I realized were both lingering illusionist tendencies, and including a "mystery" which prevented the players…
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Participants: mtiru, Wolfen.

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9/2/2005 DamienNeil: [DitV] Character accomplishment, (re)use of items, inconstant traits
So, I bought and read through the rules.  I'm still getting over how cool Dogs is, and desperately hoping for a chance to actually play it sometime soon.  But I've…
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Participants: DamienNeil, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley.

9/2/2005 Rustin: [CoC + DitV] Will This Work? ? ?
If this is in the wrong forum please move. The very thing DitV solves is the exact problem I've always had with Call of Cthulhu-- both as a GM and…
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Participants: Rustin, lumpley, Paka, John Harper, DamienNeil, Blankshield, Sydney Freedberg.

9/5/2005 DamienNeil: [DitV] Lone Tree Branch
So I just got back from running my first session of Dogs.  DAMN, but that was fun. Pride: Lone Tree Branch has been doing pretty well.  Crops are good, sickness…
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Participants: DamienNeil, lumpley.

9/7/2005 John Harper: Medical attention, GM throws the conflict
So, tonight we finished up the second session of our Dogs game. Something came up that isn't mentioned in the rules. I'm running the game. After a very nasty conflict…
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Participants: John Harper, StalkingBlue, GB Steve, ADamnFox, Technocrat13, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paka, DamienNeil, Bankuei, Judaicdiablo.

9/7/2005 mrlost: How do ceremonies work?
What are the purpose of ceremonies? Please clarify how they function in game? Are they supposed to counter Demonic Influence, and how do they modify fallout?
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Participants: mrlost, nikola, GB Steve, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, TonyLB.

9/9/2005 Spooky Fanboy: Just to be sure:
The PDF contains all the new rules you mentioned in the Forums, right?
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, lumpley.

9/10/2005 Spooky Fanboy: Regulators in the Neo-Utopia (alternate setting)
[b]Now[/b] I have the PDF, soon to be the official PDF with the upgraded rules. I will play this game as is, post-haste, I promise, so as to get a…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, lumpley.

9/13/2005 lumpley: Swords for Guns?
[quote author=Falc link=topic=16743.msg178443#msg178443 date=1126622081] I must say, it's indeed a bit unclear that the actual final step of escalation is weapons of any kind, and not just guns. That's not…
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Participants: lumpley, Falc, DamienNeil, Sean, nikola, Sydney Freedberg, cdr, epweissengruber, Trevis Martin.

9/13/2005 two_fishes: [DitV] Longview Branch
I made and ran my first Dogs game the other day. It went well, but I could have made it better. I thought I'd post the town. Victor wrote in…
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Participants: two_fishes.

9/13/2005 Ignotus: The Branch at Scutter's Folly
I'm busy gearing up to run DitV for the first time.  I met Vince at Gencon briefly (I played in a DitV demo with some friends), and he suggested I…
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Participants: Ignotus, DamienNeil, Trevis Martin, Andrew Morris, lumpley.

9/14/2005 TickTock Man: Developing Ceremonies in Alternate Settings
Greetings! I am pretty new to DitV though I have played a little bit in the Dogs setting, and in a Lovecraftian setting I am working on.  I have a…
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Participants: TickTock Man, lumpley, Blankshield, cdr, nikola, DamienNeil, Ignotus.

9/14/2005 Charles Nicholls: [DitV] Internal Conflicts
The other night, Fi (my lovely wife) and I worked through a character creation session for a Star Wars variant of Dogs.  It went fairly smoothly.  The character accomplishment raised…
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Participants: Charles Nicholls, lumpley, Nev the Deranged.

9/14/2005 mrlost: Looking for more advice on DitV
Hi, I'm a longtime GM whose part of a group which has been playing Dogs troup GM style (i.e. we switch GMs every few sessions) and next week its going…
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Participants: mrlost, TonyLB, DamienNeil.

9/15/2005 TickTock Man: DitV: Applying Relationships
Greetings! I have a quick question on relationships in DitV.  This is a hypothetical but could come into play depending on the feedback I receive.  Given a game of Dogs…
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Participants: TickTock Man, Blankshield, cdr, Nev the Deranged, philaros, nikola, lumpley, Ignotus.

9/15/2005 thrall: Conflict questions: fighting over weapons, escalating to see
I just ran my first Dogs game ever (a one shot), and loved it. The actual play is/will be here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16837.0 We came across a couple questions about conflicts that…
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Participants: thrall, DamienNeil, Frank T, Sean, lumpley.

9/15/2005 GB Steve: The Devil is in the Details
With all the Dogs games I've run, Fort Lemon 5(ish) times + Buffalo Run, and in the game I played (I forget the name of the town), much of the…
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Participants: GB Steve, TonyLB, Meguey, Blankshield, Frank T, jasonm, Andrew Morris, ptikachu, rrr, Miskatonic.

9/16/2005 David Laurence: (DitV) Two Rivers Branch
I also posted this over on RPGnet, and got some very useful comments from Judd there (incorporated below), but just for the sake of lots of people seeing it: I'm…
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Participants: David Laurence, ScottM.

9/17/2005 Miskatonic: [DitV] Mormonism and drugs
So, as I understand it, Mormonism has a complete taboo on drugs, including "smart drugs" like caffeine. And drugs, of course, are bad because they alter your judgment. Gamers routinely…
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Participants: Miskatonic, Adam Dray, Meguey, TonyLB, Vaxalon, lumpley, Brand_Robins, nikola.

9/18/2005 Spooky Fanboy: Wacky alternate setting idea from RPGnet
I stumbled across this in an RPGnet thread about, of all things, Mage: the Awakening. Bruce Baugh dropped the original idea seed. I chimed in about how DitV would be…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, jasonm, Vaxalon.

9/19/2005 Sydney Freedberg: Alternative settings - why racist Dogs break the game
People have lots of fun pondering alternative settings for Dogs in the Vineyard, and given that the Faith in the game-as-written is quite deliberately at odds with modern, Western, liberal…
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Participants: Sydney Freedberg, nikola, TonyLB, Spooky Fanboy, Ben Lehman, Tobias, lumpley, John Harper, Wolfen, IMAGinES, Frank T, Vaxalon, JasperN., Sean, Iskander.

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