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3/1/2006 Particle_Man: [Humor] Game Ninjae in the Vineyard
[I wonder if this counts as a metagame?] The players are each a Ninja sent to go from Gamer Group to Gamer Group, fixing whatever dysfunctions they find. Here is…
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Participants: Particle_Man.

3/1/2006 Judaicdiablo: How to highlight what DitV is really about
Hello All,     I was speaking with John Harper and Philaros last night about a number of topics.  One of them was about whether DitV was basically Narrativist or…
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Participants: Judaicdiablo, Brand_Robins, lumpley, agony, Frank T, Sydney Freedberg, John Harper.

2/25/2006 Emily Care: Group Conflicts
Hello there, It seems like the issue of how to deal with group conflicts is a common question. My friend Charles is running a game right now and ran into…
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Participants: Emily Care, Warren, Alephnul, Levi Kornelsen, Valamir, jlarke, lumpley, jburneko, coffeestain, ffilz, dunlaing.

2/25/2006 Everspinner: Best online Dogs roller?
Hello One of the players in our group lives away and can rarely make it to the city. Still, we like to have him playing with us and thus use…
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Participants: Everspinner, Vaxalon.

2/25/2006 Supplanter: Crowds and Power
Say I have a gang of four armed men. I get the group stat, trait and relationship dice rules in the NPC chapter, no problem. But how many gun dice…
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Participants: Supplanter, ffilz, cdr, lumpley, Vaxalon.

2/24/2006 ffilz: [DitV] A few questions
Looking back over my one play session, I have some questions: First, in that session, we had a conflict on the way to town. The conflict was cool and all…
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Participants: ffilz, Vaxalon, Joe Zeutenhorst, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley.

2/24/2006 jburneko: Multiple Named NPCs in a Conflict
I was reading a thread about Dogs today on RPG.net and I noticed that someone mentioned that the GM only ever rolls one single die pool in a conflict even…
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Participants: jburneko, Vaxalon, coffeestain.

2/24/2006 inky: [DitV] Why do the players lose conflicts?
Sorry if this has been covered in the past, but I looked back a few pages and couldn't find anything. I've played in/GMed two short games of Dogs now (three…
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Participants: inky, Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, coffeestain, dunlaing, ffilz, Valamir.

2/24/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Demo on Sunday... Need Characters
So.  Sunday, myself and and one of my players will be running demo games of Dogs at the grand opening of our newest FLGS.  We're expecting about 12-30 players over…
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Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Andrew Morris, cdr, ffilz.

2/24/2006 ffilz: [DitV] I'm gonna run Dogs tommorow - need suggestion for a short town
I'm going to run Dogs tommorow for a couple of my players. I'm hoping to be able to get through chargen, initiation, and run a small town. Any suggestions (the…
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Participants: ffilz, jasonm, cdr, Andrew Morris, Supplanter, fmac.

2/23/2006 Emily Care: sin hierachy in pump up the volume
Okay, this may be a pretty frivolous thread, I admit it. I watched the 1990 movie Pump Up the Volume the other night. Unexpectedly, it didn't suck.  Christian Slater et…
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Participants: Emily Care, TonyLB, Vaxalon, Blankshield, Everspinner, lumpley.

2/22/2006 jburneko: The Supernatural Dial
Hello, I'm very interested in how the supernatural dial generally gets set, in your game, and once set, how it ultimately affects your game.  This weekend I had the opportunity…
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Participants: jburneko, ffilz, cdr, Iskander, Vaxalon, coffeestain, Levi Kornelsen, Supplanter, Ben Lehman, Alephnul, Wolfen, lumpley, ironick.

2/21/2006 cdr: [DitV] Why I like Tower Creek so much
[quote author=lumpley link=topic=18813.msg197855#msg197855 date=1140536860] Why Tower Creek? I think it's awesome that you've played the town so many times [...] what do you dig about that one in particular? [/quote]…
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Participants: cdr, pedyo, lumpley, Technocrat13, ffilz, IMAGinES.

2/21/2006 Alephnul: Modern morality and Dogs
I am just starting out my first game of Dogs, and I'm interested in doing it short campaign style (I am totally coming from the perspective of multi-year games, so…
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Participants: Alephnul, Calithena, Vaxalon, nikola, Valamir, Sydney Freedberg.

2/21/2006 Alephnul: Backstory and False Doctrine: How the Ancients have fallen
This comes out of some <a href="http://www.lumpley.com/marginalia.php?entry=168&comment=4095">discussion</a> with Vincent in his open house thread at Anyway, but is mostly my own weirdness. I don't think I am actually going to…
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Participants: Alephnul, Emily Care, cdr.

2/20/2006 Vaxalon: Bridal Falls City
The Dogs in my game have decided that in order to Make Right What's Wrong for the town of Gospel Ridge, they need to escort Sister Azubah (a back-easter who…
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Participants: Vaxalon, 14thWarrior, Paka.

2/19/2006 Iskander: [DitV] Player conflict resolved in play.
I wrote about a player conflict that came up in the Czege'n'Bake(r) series I am running at the GGG. The first conflict of last Friday night's session was a neatly…
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Participants: Iskander.

2/18/2006 Tyberious Funk: Another alternative setting - seeking opinions
I read through the alternative settings thread and was surprised that there wasn't really mention of any cop show styled games.  I think the conflict resolution mechanics would be really…
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Participants: Tyberious Funk, Vaxalon, Levi Kornelsen, lumpley, HenryT, Liminaut.

2/17/2006 Vaxalon: What do your Dogs sound like?
I have noticed that many of my players, not only in my current game but in other FTF games I have run in the past, have affected a Texas drawl…
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Participants: Vaxalon, lumpley, Levi Kornelsen, Adam Dray, Iskander, Technocrat13, Frank T, Arturo G., Ben Lehman, Blankshield, James Holloway, Krista E, drnuncheon, Graham Walmsley.

2/16/2006 Supplanter: Town: Bat Eshta/Skeleton Dell
I apologize in advance for the shocking lack of sex. Instead you get: dinosaurs! We're not done with this one yet, though everything's been revealed to the Dogs, so there's…
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Participants: Supplanter, dunlaing, Vaxalon.

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3/3/2006 HOT: [DitV]Where's the town with "Brother Jeffs and his Harem?"
Over a year ago I got to play (up to now) my only game of Dogs (look here:http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=14479.0 for the result). Before this years HolmCon, Matthijs had ordered some games…
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Participants: HOT, lumpley.

3/3/2006 lumpley: Dogs at IPR
I've signed up with IPR! This is happy and exciting. lumpley games at IPR -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley, coffeestain, TonyLB, inthisstyle.

3/3/2006 DanielT: [DitV] Another way of making up conflicts| what do you think?
Ok, first, I think I should introduce me a bit (not so much, don' worry) M'name is Daniel, im innocent 17 years and from the land of beer and brezels,…
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Participants: DanielT, Vaxalon.

3/6/2006 Vaxalon: Banthas in the Vineyard, preparing for play
Our game group will be switching from vanilla Dogs to Banthas in the Vineyard in a few weeks, and I'd like to see what people have done, out there, to…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Danny_K, DanielT, dunlaing, Brendan, CCW, Transit, TheHappyAnarchist, nikola, Miskatonic.

3/7/2006 Dev: [Dogs] On The Ethical Nature of Kneecapping
I have a player who is great at gunplay, and does raises like "Raise 12: I shoot Mob NPC in the knees/legs." He's specifically trying to avoid killing wounds, when…
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Participants: Dev, coffeestain, Vaxalon, Warren, Wolfen, ffilz, jlarke, lumpley, demiurgeastaroth, dunlaing.

3/9/2006 coffeestain: Raven's Bluff Branch, Suggestions Wanted
Hello.  I'm working on a town that's pretty low-key (no sorcerers, etc) and I'm just not sure it has the punch I'd like it to have.  It feels a little…
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Participants: coffeestain, Doug Ruff, Ben Lehman, lumpley.

3/9/2006 coffeestain: Dust Basin
While I'm at it, I drew up Dust Basin as an introductory game for demos and the like.  I tried to take Vincent's advice and included a love triangle, a…
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Participants: coffeestain.

3/10/2006 lumpley: Co-interviewing
Hey, anyone who's here who doesn't do the blog crawl: Clinton R. Nixon and I are interviewing one another at <a href="http://www.fairgame-rpgs.com/comment.php?entry=43">Fair Game</a>. Check it out, it's a blast. -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley.

3/10/2006 lumpley: A new contest
To go with the Iron Game Chef, the Ronnies, the Bennies, the Matties, the Murkies, the Monkies... The Gamie-Gamies! Discussion welcome here or there. -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley, inthisstyle, Ben Lehman, Frank T.

3/13/2006 Everspinner: Balanced stakes or what´s at stake?
Hello Once again this might be some kind of a FAQ. If so, I would be much obliged if you could point me to the appropriate threads. A few games…
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Participants: Everspinner, Warren.

3/13/2006 caramida: Baileyfield Branch - Looking for a critical eye
Ok.  This is my first attempt at creating a Branch of my own.  Is this grabby enough for an first Branch for a new group?  Should I instead use one…
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Participants: caramida, lumpley.

3/14/2006 Superstar: A humble beginning and then some questions
I’ve been reading about DitV for some time and when a guy at my local gaming store mentioned that he owned it, played and didn’t like it I asked him…
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Participants: Superstar, TragicHeroBC, Danny_K, Pol Jackson.

3/15/2006 Anna B: My First Town
I recived Dogs by mail about a week ago. This my frist attempt at creating a town. I wanted to create something dealt with gender roles but wouldn't push my…
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Participants: Anna B.

3/17/2006 TheHappyAnarchist: Reverse Dog Style (Not like that!!!)
Courtesy of jhkim here. http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=251894&page=2 Anyone ever considered doing dogs with the players creating a town and the GM creating the dogs and trying to fix the town with his…
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Participants: TheHappyAnarchist, Vaxalon, coffeestain, BollaertN.

3/21/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: [Demo] Games of Berkeley will demo Dogs in the Vinyard next month.
Games of Berkeley on Shattuck is hosting an Indie Press RPG night on Saturdays at 5pm, kicking off with demos of Dogs in the Vinyard on the 1st and 22nd…
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Participants: ElliottBelser MKII, cdr, caramida.

3/24/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: Also running Dogs demos at Eudemonia on Mondays.
On the 3rd, 17th, and 31st, I will present demos of Dogs in the Vineyard at Eudemonia, an internet cafe in Berkeley, California, on University near Shattuck. Come all ye…
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Participants: ElliottBelser MKII.

3/28/2006 Vaxalon: Jedi - Space conflicts
Okay, so let's say that a conflict is being played out in space. How does escalation go? "Just Talking" is easy, that's conversation and confrontation over communicators.  No big deal.…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Mark D. Eddy, dunlaing, Sydney Freedberg.

3/30/2006 agony: Campaign Length?
It's been stated Dogs works best lasting between 6-10 sessions.  Quite simply, how long have your campaigns lasted?  Why/how they ended would be nice as well.
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Participants: agony, Vaxalon.

3/30/2006 dunlaing: Dogs actual play
So, we're playing Dogs and my character, Br. Samson, is being fawned over by a hot young Mountain Person woman. I initiated a conflict with the Stakes that I would…
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Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Ben Lehman, Supplanter, Brian Newman, Brand_Robins, lumpley, Paka, TheHappyAnarchist, neelk.

3/30/2006 Supplanter: "Help" Help
There was one aspect of the Helping Die rules our group found ambiguous in the text. I'd appreciate being straightened out on it. If I help another Dog with a…
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Participants: Supplanter, dunlaing, Brand_Robins, cdr.

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