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3/14/2007 Valvorik: [Afraid] Questions - flashbacks and nature of monsters/victims
1.  Can ‘flashback’ scenes be used to resolve research or absentee stakes?  Not as something to recount in raises etc. (page 88 of DiTV) but as the stage for a…
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Participants: Valvorik, lumpley.

3/13/2007 Bjorn: Some newbie questions about DitV
Hi, I just bought the game and have some questions. Some of these might be terribly naive but here goes. 1) How important is it to have a basic foundation…
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Participants: Bjorn, Warren, lumpley, David Artman, Wolfen.

3/13/2007 Valvorik: [Afraid] Clarification over stats in the rule outline
The rule outline says a couple of times: Bad: 1d61d8; good: 2d6 (e.g. assigning dice to relationships, assigning dice to traits) Is that supposed to be Bad 1d6, Good 1d8,…
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Participants: Valvorik, lumpley.

3/8/2007 xenopulse: Couple of Questions
You will probably be able to point me to threads discussing this before, but I couldn't find them on my own. Over on IWKFAM, you wrote: the dice don't tell…
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Participants: xenopulse, lumpley.

3/7/2007 Roy Batty: Re: [DitV/Roanoke] Vikings vs. Horror, or Wolves of the New World
(Not sure what happened with my original post...) (Cross posted at RPG.net) I picked up Dogs in the Vineyard about a year ago, and I’d like to use it for…
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Participants: Roy Batty.

3/5/2007 Falc: Looking for a thread / post on lumpley site
Okay, I'm getting ready for my first Dogs game in a while. Been browsing this forum a bit more often, and such. So, about a week or two ago, I…
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Participants: Falc, lumpley.

3/1/2007 TomTitTot: [DitV] Accentuating The Supernatural
I'm in a bit of a pickle, and could use some advice if anyone is able. I had originally intended to run my upcoming DitV game with minimal supernatural activity.…
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Participants: TomTitTot, lumpley.

2/27/2007 TomTitTot: My First Town - is it too bland?
[b]Town:[/b] King's Arch [b]Pride:[/b] Sister Anne, the wife of the Sheriff Brother Jebiah, has been conducting an illicit affair with the Steward, Brother Douglas. However her attraction to him has…
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Participants: TomTitTot, lumpley, Falc, Valamir, JC, oliof, David Artman.

2/27/2007 phargle: [DiTV] My relationship died. What do I do? And two other questions.
During a conflict, I took a relationship with someone:  I'll kill you if you mess with me (1d10).  In the course of the adventure, that person died. . . what…
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Participants: phargle, Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

2/26/2007 Neil the Wimp: [DitV] Matri- or patri-local?
OK, a simple little question.  As I understand it, young men are sent off to visit other towns as both part of their 'education' and to court women and choose…
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Participants: Neil the Wimp, lumpley.

2/24/2007 yangnome: [DitV] Dogs as a Play by Post game?
I'm wondering if anyone has successfully run a DitV (or varient) PbP game.  I'm putting together a varient game and want to try it out before running it in person. …
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Participants: yangnome, Ludanto.

2/22/2007 eldunce: [DitV] - in space, again
So, this is no doubt the umpteenth time since Firefly came out on DVD that this has been brought up, but here we go: I'm running a space game, of…
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Participants: eldunce, Falc, Tim M Ralphs, ffilz, Cyclopeus.

2/20/2007 phargle: [DiTV] Injury, death and recovery - did we do this right?
My character took a lot of physical (non-fighting) fallout during a conflict with a forest.  We were trecking through it to find where the townsfolk were going after dark.  It…
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Participants: phargle, lumpley, womble.

2/18/2007 Mr Teufel: Bene Gesserit - DitV for Dune?
Just throwing an idea in the pool. I haven't seen a Dune variant, and wondered if the Bene Gesserit would work?
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Participants: Mr Teufel, James_Nostack, xdiox, Minx, Transit, Web_Weaver.

2/16/2007 David Artman: Alternate Settings for DitV & Product Concepts
I probably should search--I suspect I am not the first to think of this--but I can't for the life of me think of good terms to get appropriate hits. So…
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Participants: David Artman, lumpley, Filip Luszczyk, zornwil.

2/15/2007 Pelgrane: [DitV] Help with a new setting - King's Marshalls
Steve - don't read this! I ran a game called King's Marshalls using 1st Ed D&D rules. It was intended as the first in a series of "system matters" experiments.…
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Participants: Pelgrane, Eliarhiman6, Valamir, David Artman, GB Steve.

2/12/2007 Ice Cream Emperor: [DitV] Dogs at a con -- pregens?
I'm going to be running some Dogs at an upcoming con, and since the slots are 4 hours I am naturally a bit concerned about time management. I ran the…
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Participants: Ice Cream Emperor, Warren, chriscrouch, David Artman, Valamir, Paka, cdr.

2/9/2007 Mandrake: [Ditv} My first town - coherent or confused ?
Our group has played 3 towns now, all run by one GM. Part of the reason for playing Dogs is as a learning experience and as such, the idea is…
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Participants: Mandrake, Glendower.

2/8/2007 James_Nostack: Would this [DITV] mod work? (seeking advice)
Hi Vincent & crew, I am tempted to run a science-fiction verison of Dogs.  I've never run or played Dogs before, though, and I want to make sure I don't…
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Participants: James_Nostack, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Falc.

2/5/2007 Artanis: [In a Wicked Age] Conflict questions
Hi Vincent! Here are my remaining questions that arose from the two sessions I played with my group and which were not answered in Hans' thread I'm not sure…
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Participants: Artanis, lumpley.

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3/15/2007 wunderllama: Hey! You got Dogs in my television show!
A brief thought, inspired by tonight's episode of Jericho. (Fair warning, if anyone follows Jericho, spoilers follow) So there's a character, Robert Hawkins, who was working for a secret shadow…
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Participants: wunderllama.

3/15/2007 Valvorik: [Afraid] Untrue facts as "fallout option"?
Triggered by this thread, that I'm posing here rather than resurrecting (Forge rule about not resurrecting stuff a couple of pages down, right?). http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=22931.0 .... Part way through the…
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Participants: Valvorik.

3/15/2007 Jonathan Walton: [Afraid] The Mistress of Erich Zann
I ran Afraid Arkham-style for the SGBoston crew this week. When I first read Afraid, the monster-creation guidelines reminded me of a number of Lovecraft stories, especially Pickman's Model and…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, lumpley, Valvorik, Meej.

3/16/2007 phargle: [DiTV] Trait pile-on - how many traits can you use, and when do you roll?
I've been thinking about the problem of trait pile-on in our game.  In verbal encounters, we squeezed in every trait we could, even if it was only remotely related to…
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Participants: phargle, Ice Cream Emperor, lumpley.

3/16/2007 Valvorik: [Afraid] More Questions - Relationships and Follow-Ups
More Rules Questions Q1:  It’s very tempting to assign relationship dice to the Monster at some point.  This wouldn’t apply to interactions with Victims or Slaves I think, but would…
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Participants: Valvorik, Ludanto, lumpley.

3/20/2007 Mencelus: [DitV] With more than 4 players?
I posted this over on RPG.net as well, but thought it might get a better response here. My group has recently decided to play Star Wars, and we've decided on…
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Participants: Mencelus, Glendower, lumpley, WildElf.

3/20/2007 Valvorik: [Afraid] Collecting Monsters?
Vincent said in the end-notes on Afraid that he hoped to see monsters created and posted like towns in DitV.  I think some sample monsters would be great, helping getting…
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Participants: Valvorik.

3/21/2007 Valvorik: [Afraid] Questions about Character Creation
I've actually got more Q's than this but thought I would (a) cluster them in themed groups; and (b) not post them all at once to avoid overloading etc. I'm…
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Participants: Valvorik, lumpley.

3/21/2007 Valvorik: Re: [Afraid] Fallout and Stakes Questions
I'm sorry about the 'blank posts', not sure why board keeps freezing on me and doing that. The question were: Fallout Questions 1. In campaign play, if some old Relationships…
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Participants: Valvorik, Ludanto, lumpley.

3/21/2007 Ludanto: Afraid Initiations ("Premonitions")
I read earlier about Vincent having the idea of letting the players play the victim during Afraid's Initiation phase and I thought I might throw some ideas out there. First,…
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Participants: Ludanto, Valvorik, cdr.

3/24/2007 ShawnI: [DitV] Alternate NPC system...
Vincent posted a note over at Anyway a while back on an alternate way of figuring out NPC stats: http://www.lumpley.com/comment.php?entry=294.  It looks pretty slick, but later on in the comments,…
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Participants: ShawnI, lumpley.

3/26/2007 MUKid: Multiple Participant Conflicts
Hi all.  I'm new to both the forum and to Dogs, so please be kind! We played our first game of DitV this weekend.  I was able to run the…
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Participants: MUKid, demiurgeastaroth, rohoe, Glendower, lumpley, Eliarhiman6, Valamir, Web_Weaver.

3/27/2007 Valvorik: [Afraid, a bit of DitV too] Possession
Some questions about possession, crossing over from Afraid and DitV. 1.  Was there ever a  blow-by-blow description of an exorcism for DitV, per last past in: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16699.0 - note, can’t…
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Participants: Valvorik, lumpley.

3/28/2007 Glendower: Blood River Valley
When I designed Blood River Valley, I first asked my three players what they really hated about society and the people in it.  I wanted to find out what would…
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Participants: Glendower, oliof.

3/28/2007 MUKid: How to handle negative traits
How do other GMs handle a trait that's a disadvantage?  For instance, a character has a trait, "I have a peg leg 1d4."  Is there a way to translate that…
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Participants: MUKid, Eliarhiman6, Valamir, Ludanto, lumpley.

4/2/2007 cglasgow: Angels in the Vineyard? (setting request)
Hi, I'm Chuck, and I'm a newbie.  (To this forum, and to DitV, if not to RPGs in general.)  *g* I've seen the Dogs as Angels thread in search, but…
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Participants: cglasgow, lumpley, phargle, Web_Weaver.

4/4/2007 Valvorik: [Afraid] Someones.. and Interplayer Tension
In DitV, a good deal of game comes from players not seeing "the answer" the same way etc. 1..How much of that should be brought into Afraid?  This links to…
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Participants: Valvorik, lumpley.

4/4/2007 cglasgow: [DitV] Playing in AIM chatroom
For those of you not familiar with AIM's die roller syntax for their chatrooms, it works like this: //roll-diceX-sidesY to roll X dice with Y sides each. Forex -- "//roll-dice8-sides10"…
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Participants: cglasgow, lumpley, Dave Cleaver, demiurgeastaroth, Archer5280, EarthSea, Filip Luszczyk.

4/5/2007 Lagnath: A question to Vincent.
So I'm gonna pose a theoretical question to Vincent and see if he's ever had any thoughts in this direction and if so, what they were. I'm proposing to a…
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Participants: Lagnath, oliof, Eliarhiman6, Gugliandalf, lumpley.

4/6/2007 The Mule: First Dogs run!
Dogs is one of my first indie rpgs, and so me and my crew are pretty new at this stuff, but we've managed to have a lot of fun so…
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Participants: The Mule.

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