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10/7/2005 jasonm: More Names, More Places
Hey Everybody, Dave Younce put together some Dog's-themed name generators for people and places and I posted the files on my site: http://www.meekmok.com/sassy/dogs/tools.html His names go way deeper than my…
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Participants: jasonm, foucalt, Ben Lehman, Copperhead.

10/7/2005 Cyrus Marriner: [DitV] King's Butte Branch
Here's the town I came up with for my first session of DitV. ------ King’s Butte Branch PRIDE Steward Edwin attends to the needs of the small, poor, King’s Butte…
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Participants: Cyrus Marriner, Nev the Deranged, ScottM, jasonm.

10/6/2005 Technocrat13: [DitV] Creating PCs for Convention-run towns.
I'll be attending MACE in November and running two sessions of DitV while I'm there.  What's running through my head right now is how much, if any, character generation can…
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Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm, lumpley, Doug Ruff, Adam Dray, Paka, Frank T.

10/5/2005 Falc: Alternate setting: Troubleshooters in Alpha Complex?
Okay, I read the alternate settings listing and this just struck me. For those of you that don't get the reference... erm, well, you need to go play Paranoia 'cause…
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Participants: Falc, Jonas Karlsson, Graham Walmsley.

10/5/2005 Frank T: Accomplishment Problem
Here’s one problem I've had repeatedly running Accomplishments. It’s especially sorry because the Accomplishment should, imo, present the genius resolution mechanic to its best instead of making it seem awkward…
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Participants: Frank T, lumpley, Falc.

10/4/2005 chris_moore: taking the blow
Does "taking the blow" mean that you lose the conflict stakes and get fallout, or are they separate things?
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Participants: chris_moore, James Holloway, Vaxalon, Jonas Karlsson, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, bcook1971, dunlaing.

10/4/2005 foucalt: [DitV] Comprehensive Alternate Setting Thread...
Hi all - I'm relatively new to the forge, and definitely new to DitV. I bought DitV, and really want to play it, but one of my key players (in…
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Participants: foucalt, lumpley, Andrew Morris, Sydney Freedberg, Tobias, Joshua BishopRoby, hix, oliof, Everspinner, Particle_Man, Eynowd, TheHappyAnarchist, BollaertN, Jalathas, ElliottBelser MKII, Mr. Sluagh, oreso, Gugliandalf, Taltos, Pelgrane, Dustin of the Dead, Eliarhiman6, lachek, Filip Luszczyk, SavageInOz, Levi Kornelsen, gorckat, dyreno, cra2, Warren, Solarsaurus, knicknevin, Gareth_Lazelle, Maestro.

10/4/2005 Rustin: [DitV] Cedar Hollow - What can't you set stakes on?
[center]Background[/center] First time playing. I tried to keep this town simple with only three instances of sinful progression.  I had the ethical dilemmas revolve around --not conflicting NPC agendas exactly,…
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Participants: Rustin, PorterO, lumpley.

10/3/2005 Vaxalon: [DitV] Intro to the town of Lookout Pine - any comments?
I'm going to be running DitV over IRC tonight, and I want to put the initial scene-setting up for your critique. The road to Lookout Pine runs through some very…
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Participants: Vaxalon, lumpley, Meguey, Nev the Deranged.

10/3/2005 IMAGinES: [DitV] A Pair of Branches
As mentioned in the Dogs in the Voice Chat thread over in Actual Play, I'm planning to run some Dogs in the Vineyard for my wife and a good friend.…
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Participants: IMAGinES, lumpley, oliof.

10/2/2005 Graham Walmsley: [DitV] Willow Tree Branch
I ran Dogs for the first time tonight, with two players: my brother, who hasn't played RPGs for years, and my LARP friend Rachel. The town was a variation on…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley.

10/2/2005 Particle_Man: On removing homosexuality and violating gender roles as sins...
I have looked over the infamous "Racist Nazi Dogs" thread and want a DotV game in which homosexual relations are not sinful and in which women are not limited to…
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Participants: Particle_Man, lumpley, Darcy Burgess, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, ejh, Eero Tuovinen, Bankuei, demiurgeastaroth, James Holloway.

10/2/2005 lumpley: Serenity Policy
THE LUMPLEY GAMES FORUM SERENITY POLICY Discussing Serenity is, as you'd guess, on-topic for this forum. However, it's impossible to discuss a movie without casually revealing details of what happens…
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Participants: lumpley.

10/1/2005 Judaicdiablo: Serenity is what Firefly in the 'Verse should be
Hi,   If this thread isn't appropriate, please kill it or let me know.  Anyhow, I just want to encourage everyone out there to go to Serenity (like I really…
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Participants: Judaicdiablo, hix, John Harper, ivan23, lumpley, kanseg, tonyd, rafial, nikola.

9/30/2005 Vaxalon: Relationships die?
I've got a character who has a relationship that's basically an old romantic affair that has been cut off, years ago.  I'm thinking it would be appropriate to represent that…
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Participants: Vaxalon, lumpley.

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.

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.

9/28/2005 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 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.

9/27/2005 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.

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10/10/2005 Rustin: Hounds on the Moor
[url=http://home.comcast.net/~rustin_s/Hounds_on_the_Moor.pdf] Hounds on the Moor.pdf[/url] Here's a little something I threw together if I ever get around to using the DitV mechanics for a Cthulhu game. It has not been…
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Participants: Rustin, Vaxalon, Darcy Burgess, devonapple, zornwil.

10/10/2005 Iskander: [DitV] Green Creek Pass
I'm preparing to run Dogs in the Vineyard for the first time in a one-shot next Saturday, which I'll repeat the following Saturday for a new group of four. Inspired…
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Participants: Iskander, jasonm.

10/10/2005 timfire: [DitV] Mechanical Issue with Initiation
I have a feeling this has been discussed already, so a link to an old post is fine. In our recent chargen session, both myself and another player, Tod, found…
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Participants: timfire, Frank T, Vaxalon, lumpley.

10/9/2005 Vaxalon: GM vs Players in Sin Hierarchy
An important thing to look at, with respect to the Mind of God in DitV, is the demonic influence hierarchy. Injustice, Demonic Attacks, Heresy, Sorcery, Hate and Murder.  Those are…
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Participants: Vaxalon, lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, Blankshield, IMAGinES, Andrew Morris, Paka, Brand_Robins, Brian Newman.

10/10/2005 MarcoBrucale: GM Fallout during Initiation?
Yesterday I finished reading DitV for the first time. My very short review of this book: it should be mandatory reading for anyone even remotely interested in playing RPGs. The…
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Participants: MarcoBrucale, Vaxalon, lumpley.

10/11/2005 Sean: Directory of Towns?
I sort of remember there being a directory of towns thread or page or something, but I don't know where it is. Sulfur Junction is currently on-line at http://1.myfreebulletinboard.com/calithena-post-19.html#19 though.
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Participants: Sean, Vaxalon, Christopher Weeks.

10/11/2005 Parsolamew: Fallout Dice for Healing
This'll be a heck of a weak first post, but I've got a miscellaneous question that I can't seem to answer on my own. What die-size is the fallout that…
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Participants: Parsolamew, lumpley, Vaxalon, Paka.

10/11/2005 Vaxalon: Not Raising, Not Dropping Out
[quote]1. Under no circumstances can you pass when it's your turn to raise. You can raise or you can give. Also, you can't ever join or rejoin a conflict already…
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Participants: Vaxalon, lumpley.

10/12/2005 oliof: [DitV] The Territorial Authority
Hello, it seems that not many of the sample towns and branches here have the T.A. as part of the town setup. Do You regard the T.A. as an important…
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Participants: oliof, Vaxalon, James Holloway.

10/12/2005 IMAGinES: [DitV] So Tell Us: Was It Really The Butler?
There's a discussion about the variance between the details of the town that the GM creates for a game of Dogs in the Vineyard and how the players decide to…
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Participants: IMAGinES, Paka, Brand_Robins, Blankshield, TonyLB, jasonm, Vaxalon, nikola, Pol Jackson.

10/13/2005 apparition13: Magistrates in the Middle Kingdom?
I'm hardly qualified to participate in this sub-forum, but while I was reading the "alternate settings" sticky the Judge Dee stories popped into my head.  Judge Dee is the magistrate…
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Participants: apparition13, Vaxalon.

10/14/2005 RobNJ: [DitV] Can someone essplain to me how Ceremonies work?
I read the section on Ceremonies but I really can't make sense of it.  It seems like invoking them just changes the dice size of the Fallout.  What's the deal? …
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Participants: RobNJ, lumpley, nikola, Norbert Matausch, Neal.

10/15/2005 two_fishes: [DitV] Walnut Hollow Branch
Hi, I'm going to be running a Dogs game next weekend, and I thought it would be nice to get comments on the town. I've run one other town and…
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Participants: two_fishes, Technocrat13, immlass, ScottM, Vaxalon.

10/15/2005 Solamasa: flashinated Dogs badassery
Some of you may remember my threats from a few months ago to create a Flash animation based on a Dogs campaign that I played with an awesome group of…
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Participants: Solamasa, Trevis Martin, Technocrat13, hix, rafial, IMAGinES, Ben Lehman, lumpley, jasonm, John Harper.

10/16/2005 dunlaing: [Jedi] Words from the creator
"The idea of Jedi were (sic) that the Jedi are like Marshalls who come in and they're there to sort of settle disputes in the end." --George Lucas, in The…
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Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon.

10/17/2005 Paka: Another album for the Dogs in the Vineyard Soundtrack
I just picked it up on a whim, it is by two guys who make music under the band name, Earth. The album is called Hex: or Printing in the…
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Participants: Paka, hix, foucalt, jasonm, lumpley, Neal, Clinton R. Nixon, jrs, Tindalos, Darcy Burgess, oliof, Matt Wilson, Iskander, Arvidos, cpeterso, Brian Newman, Leningrad, Call Me Curly, Ineti, Stefan, demiurgeastaroth, Dumirik, Calithena, reaction, ironick, David Coulter, Steven Stewart, Dustin of the Dead, TJ, sacredchao, Mandrake, TomTitTot, Manveru, Kordeth.

10/18/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: First Question -- Resolution Without People
This is the first among many questions I'll probably ask here.  I've read through the Resolution chapter and while it makes me grin and jump up and down, I'm kind…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, lumpley, dunlaing, xenopulse, Vaxalon, Ron Edwards, Neal, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, IMAGinES.

10/18/2005 Andrew Morris: Big crap items
Why are big and crap items 1d4 instead of, say, 2d4? I thought having more d4s meant higher likelihood of taking fallout?
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Participants: Andrew Morris, dunlaing, Vaxalon, lumpley, nikola.

10/18/2005 Dev: Taking a fall
As a GM, I'd like the opportunity to have an NPC take a painful fall, taking the blow (rather than blocking, even if it's possible) and perhaps folding immediately after…
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Participants: Dev, Falc, Andrew Morris, Frank T, lumpley, Vaxalon, Neal, dunlaing, Spooky Fanboy, Brian Newman.

10/19/2005 Neal: Sexuality and Deviance in DitV
Hi folks, I'm new here, and in the course of reading up on some of the older threads, I stumbled across a rather contentious engagement about homosexuality as a sin…
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Participants: Neal, Vaxalon, lumpley, Sydney Freedberg, nikola, two_fishes, Brand_Robins.

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