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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.

9/13/2005 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.

9/13/2005 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 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.

9/10/2005 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.

9/9/2005 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.

9/7/2005 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.

9/7/2005 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.

9/5/2005 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.

9/2/2005 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.

9/2/2005 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.

8/31/2005 lumpley: Dogs Review Podcast by Paul Tevis
[url=http://havegameswilltravel.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=16556]Have Games, Will Travel #6[/url]. Coolness! -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley.

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.

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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.

9/22/2005 Ignotus: [Alternate Setting] Thunder in the Vineyard
DitV – Thunder in the Vineyard “They who give straight judgements to strangers and to the men of the land, and go not aside from what is just, their city…
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Participants: Ignotus, Brand_Robins, John Harper.

9/23/2005 Judaicdiablo: Ceremony in Firefly in the Vineyard
There are 3 guiding principles to the Firefly in the Vineyard setting.  You may interpret them as you like. “A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job,…
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Participants: Judaicdiablo, nikola, IMAGinES, Everspinner, John Harper, Frank T, lumpley, philaros.

9/24/2005 Nev the Deranged: Couple questions
Okay, so I finally got to actually play some Dogs tonight. Just an Initiation, but she's psyched to get a group together so it just might happen. I posted about…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, nikola.

9/25/2005 Nev the Deranged: Jedi in the Vineyard
[quote][quote] what kinds of changes aside from Lightsabers instead of guns did you make? What kind of principles are the Jedi sworn to uphold, and what authority do they act…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Charles Nicholls, nikola, lumpley, John Harper.

9/25/2005 Karasu: Second Edition?
I've been waiting to get DitV ever since I heard that it was going to be availible in a new edition sometime after Gencon. I was wondering, is that second…
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Participants: Karasu, Nev the Deranged.

9/26/2005 Frank T: The problem with low-key towns
I ran my second game of DitV yesterday (report on the previous here). I had about 5 minutes to prepare, so I just randomly picked one of the branches from…
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Participants: Frank T, lumpley, Technocrat13, TonyLB, James Holloway, Brand_Robins, Vaxalon.

9/26/2005 Nev the Deranged: When/who decides when a Town is done?
It occurred to me to wonder what happens if the Dogs decide their work here is done... but still leave the Town in sin, according to the Faith. Like, I've…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, nikola, lumpley.

9/27/2005 Judaicdiablo: [DitV] Firefly in the Verse Session 0
I just posted Session 0 of Firefly in the Vineyard over in Actual Play.  Here is the link. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16975.0 --Brandon
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Participants: Judaicdiablo.

9/28/2005 Nathan P.: [DitV] Half and half
First Half: ...I'm not gonna lie, I think this is really funny. Second Half: I had an interesting conversation last week when my group was deciding which of…
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Participants: Nathan P., lumpley, Judaicdiablo, John Burdick, Vaxalon, IMAGinES, Particle_Man.

9/28/2005 Judaicdiablo: [DitV] Wounded: Alternate Trait Suggestion
in a previous post Vincent clarified the Fallout rules to indicate that "death" really means out of the story since not all fallout is physical.  Our group is going to…
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Participants: Judaicdiablo, rafial, rrr, Ben Lehman, lumpley.

9/28/2005 Jonas Karlsson: Help on convention scenario prep
Hello all, I'm prepping a town for a Swedish convention in the beginning of November, for a scenario I've called "The unfaithful in Paradise Rock". I want to spread some…
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Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Munkholt, lumpley, olleolleolle.

9/29/2005 Nev the Deranged: Question about Dogs other duties
Listed among the Dogs duties is carrying mail, news, and dissemination of new interpretation of scripture. Has anybody actually used these as part of a Dogs game? Also, these somewhat…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, Andrew Morris, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Wolfen, jrs, ironick, Vaxalon, olleolleolle, jasonm, nikola.

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