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10/22/2005 Pol Jackson: [DitV] Hobbestown - Questions, Some Answers
Ran my first game ever of Dogs last week. It went really well! I ran my new Dogs through "Hobbestown" (which has changed dramatically since I last posted it). I…
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Participants: Pol Jackson, Everspinner.

10/21/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: [DitV] "Relationships Determine What Conflicts Will Be About"
Okay, so I've read the line "Traits determine how conflicts are resolved, but Relationships determine what conflicts will be about."  I don't see how this works out mechanically, except if…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Neal, Brand_Robins, IMAGinES, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley, James Holloway, Karasu, jrs.

10/21/2005 jrs: Questions about conflicts in Dogs
Vincent, I have some questions that came up during our play last weekend about conflicts in Dogs.  I think at least one of them has been mentioned here, but I…
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Participants: jrs, Vaxalon, lumpley.

10/21/2005 Dev: Interesting Jedi article on Star Wars and gender (among other things)
I'm always impressed by <i>Strange Horizons</i>, but I really liked this article on Revenge of the Seth: We Must Love One Another or Die. The article takes a lot of…
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Participants: Dev, Sydney Freedberg, Brand_Robins.

10/20/2005 Vaxalon: Does town creation always proceed linearly? (spoiler warning)
I'm finding an interesting phenomenon as I go through the town creation process for my current town. I'm going to be using it in my IRC game, so Thomas, Chris,…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Neal, lumpley, Pol Jackson.

10/20/2005 Falc: Some rules questions
I'm a bit tired, but if I put this off it'll happen like next week, so I'll ask now and perhaps elaborate a bit later on. One of my players…
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Participants: Falc, Vaxalon, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley.

10/19/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: Hierarchy of the Shitstorm & Doctrine
Is the Pride -> Injustice -> Sin -> parts I don't remember -> Hate and Murder thing a strictly OOC setup, or is it an in-character understood element of the…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Iskander, Brand_Robins.

10/19/2005 foucalt: Is it always Pride?
Something Vincent said over in the 19th-century sexuality thread caught my attention, but I didn't feel like it was on-topic enough for me to post there. So, Vincent says: quote…
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Participants: foucalt, lumpley, Vaxalon, Joshua BishopRoby, Neal.

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.

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.

10/18/2005 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 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.

10/17/2005 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.

10/16/2005 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.

10/15/2005 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.

10/15/2005 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.

10/14/2005 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.

10/13/2005 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.

10/12/2005 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.

10/12/2005 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.

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10/23/2005 Karasu: Intent of Action?
I ran my first playtest of Dogs last night with two of my five players, and it went swimmingly. It started out as a short introduction to the conflict resolution…
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Participants: Karasu, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley.

10/25/2005 KingOfFarPoint: Do players have absolute say over belongings on their sheet.
To what extent was I breaking the rules by doing the following: Two Dogs were arguing with an npc about whether she was allowed to commit suicide and whether they…
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Participants: KingOfFarPoint, Vaxalon, Neal, Andrew Morris, lumpley, nikola.

10/25/2005 Neal: Relationships with Belongings?
Has anyone here discussed a character's relationships to his or her belongings?  I mean relationships as in Relationships.  I'm not advocating, mind you; just asking.  I don't see in the…
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Participants: Neal, lumpley, Vaxalon, Wolfen, nikola.

10/25/2005 jrs: [DitV] NPC's as improvised belongings
Following up on my post here in "Relationships Determine What Conflicts Will Be About" , I have a question: There is this conflict between a Dog and the town…
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Participants: jrs, Vaxalon, lumpley.

10/26/2005 Neal: Question about Escalation and Dice
I ran my first DitV gathering today.  It was limited to character generation and initiatory conflicts, but it went well.  Nevertheless, one player asked a question I was unable to…
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Participants: Neal, Vaxalon, Brand_Robins, John Harper.

10/27/2005 Spooky Fanboy: [DiTV] Thread in rpg.net
If anyone's interested, it's here. So far, it's converted two people (or at least has them interested in DiTV) at last count!
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, lumpley, Neal, dunlaing, Brand_Robins, Bankuei, foucalt.

10/27/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: Long Running Campaigns
What's the longest campaign you've played Dogs for?  How many towns did you go through?  Did character progression/development change the way the game played eventually?  Did the formula (Dogs enter…
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Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Vaxalon.

10/28/2005 hix: Agents in the Matrix
This is an alternate setting inspired by SS in the Valley (aside from The Farm, probably the only true horror game I've ever read). I wonder if this is a…
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Participants: hix, Danny_K, Vaxalon, Brian Newman, Brand_Robins, Chris Geisel, Ignotus, Everspinner, lumpley, John Harper.

10/28/2005 Brendan: Baal and Easter Platte: Working up a planet-town
I've been wanting to play DitV for months, and my gamer friends got much more into the idea once I mentioned that we could play it in a Fireflylike setting…
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Participants: Brendan.

10/29/2005 oliof: [DitV][Blue Rose] Keepers of the Flame visit High Rockton
Just a little teaser to have some follow up posts. First, transposing Dogs to Aldea/Jarzon is a snap. Just replace names. Second, Eric Provosts towns rock. Without his hard work…
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Participants: oliof, Vaxalon, Frank T.

10/29/2005 TTrotsky: Worth it for Town Generation?
DitV was recently recommended to me for its Town Generation system. I don't need a new rule system now, so the mechanics of character generation, escalation, combat, etc. won't be…
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Participants: TTrotsky, Neal, oliof, Brian Newman, nikola, foucalt.

10/29/2005 Everspinner: Demons and the Faithless
Hello Here´s a stupid question. I thought I would ask it here before my players ask me. Given that we have a game where the demons will become manifest, i.e.,…
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Participants: Everspinner, lumpley, Neal, Vaxalon.

10/29/2005 two_fishes: [DitV] A couple of Questions
Hi, Last week I ran Walnut Hollow Branch. Here's a link to the version I posted on the forum: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17254.0 I ran the town pretty much as written. I made…
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Participants: two_fishes, Neal, Vaxalon, oliof.

10/29/2005 Neal: When Demons Attack
Having designed a handful of towns for my game, the one thing that troubles me is dealing with Demon Attacks.  I appreciate that the nature of the attacks is left…
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Participants: Neal, oliof, lumpley, Spooky Fanboy, Sydney Freedberg.

10/30/2005 anonymouse: Cool DitV prop
[url]http://www.thelibraryshop.org/toolleatjour.html[/url] Mind you, it's a little spendy for a prop, but it's pretty dang cool. It's at least a picture to point to and say, "My Dog's book looks like…
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Participants: anonymouse, Vaxalon, nikola, Paka.

10/30/2005 Everspinner: Is a Bad Town a Bad Idea?
In the Good Town thread, someone said that there are the typical Dogs towns with various levels of trouble, and then the ends of the spectrum that might a useful…
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Participants: Everspinner, oliof, Neal, lumpley.

11/1/2005 Paka: Raise and See Dungeon Crawl
For some reason, it is late and I am fascinated with turning Dogs into some kind of mutant fantasy heartbreaker clone. Something is effing up the community and this evil…
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Participants: Paka, Frank T, TonyLB, Ben Lehman, Joshua BishopRoby, Vaxalon.

11/1/2005 lumpley: Dogs' Sales to Date
On my blog, I've just posted a chart showing the last 15 months' Dogs sales: here. I welcome any discussion or questions, here or there. -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley, Technocrat13, Brian Newman, Brand_Robins, Neal, Blankshield, Paka, IMAGinES.

11/2/2005 mtiru: [DitV] Ghosts!
Hey folks - Have any of you included ghost NPCs in a town? let's say a dead character's spirit visits the Dogs with information, or a spirit needs to be…
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Participants: mtiru, lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Brendan, Neal.

11/2/2005 TonyLB: Vineyard of Blood
Over here on RPG.Net AndyK pointed out some similarities between DitV's Commencement mechanics and Vampire 1st ed.'s Embrace scene, and it got me thinkin'.  Vampire protagonists (at least in the…
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Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, demiurgeastaroth, dunlaing, Sydney Freedberg, Neal, Frank T, Danny_K, Mark Woodhouse, Bret Gillan.

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