Previous Topics In lumpley games 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… In lumpley games Participants: Valvorik, 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… In lumpley games Participants: MUKid, demiurgeastaroth, rohoe, Glendower, lumpley, Eliarhiman6, Valamir, Web_Weaver.
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,… In lumpley games Participants: ShawnI, 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,… In lumpley games Participants: Ludanto, Valvorik, cdr.
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… In lumpley games Participants: Valvorik, Ludanto, lumpley.
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… In lumpley games Participants: Valvorik, lumpley.
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… In lumpley games Participants: Valvorik.
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… In lumpley games Participants: Mencelus, Glendower, lumpley, WildElf.
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… In lumpley games Participants: Valvorik, Ludanto, lumpley.
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… In lumpley games Participants: phargle, Ice Cream Emperor, lumpley.
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… In lumpley games Participants: Jonathan Walton, lumpley, Valvorik, Meej.
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… In lumpley games Participants: Valvorik.
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… In lumpley games Participants: wunderllama.
3/14/2007 phargle: Who can start conflicts; who can use items; I don't get demonic fallout. We just finished our Dogs in the Vineyard campaign. The characters evolved and we saved a few towns; for us, this was one of the coolest games we've ever played… In lumpley games Participants: phargle, lumpley, Gugliandalf.
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… In lumpley games 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… In lumpley games 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,… In lumpley games 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… In lumpley games 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… In lumpley games 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… In lumpley games Participants: Falc, lumpley.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics In lumpley games 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… In lumpley games 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… In lumpley games 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… In lumpley games 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"… In lumpley games 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… In lumpley games 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… In lumpley games Participants: The Mule.
4/9/2007 Ben Lehman: Initiation Question So I played a game last Friday and two of my players wanted to have their initiation conflict (I hope I punched the other guy out) be a player-versus-player affair,… In lumpley games Participants: Ben Lehman, Glendower, lumpley.
4/9/2007 jrs: What I like about DitV After a long hiatus, our group has started playing Dogs again. I'm the GM and I've reworked Judd's (Paka) New Gidea town for our play. It's great to see how… In lumpley games Participants: jrs, lumpley.
4/13/2007 fnord3125: [DitV] Question about Exorcisms Since I'm brand-spankin' new to these forums, I'll apologize right away if this topic has ever been discussed before, but after reading through Dogs and thinking about it a lot… In lumpley games Participants: fnord3125, lumpley, Web_Weaver.
4/13/2007 Kevin Allen Jr: A Mechaton Question So i'm a little unclear on spot.
What i want: To build a really fast mech without weapons, but like 2-3 yellow die attachments. This thing would run up to… In lumpley games Participants: Kevin Allen Jr, lumpley.
4/17/2007 athornton: [KPFS] Wow. My gaming group is much more narrative-oriented than I ever believed possible.
They are also much sicker bastards than I knew. And yes, this is the gaming group that on… In lumpley games Participants: athornton, lumpley, 14thWarrior, Gugliandalf.
4/17/2007 14thWarrior: [DitV] Woot! Woot! Got my DitV 2nd. ed. Hardcopy! Yay! According to my wonderful wife, my copy of DitV just arrived today from IPR. I'm so frikkin' happy I can barely contain myself. :D
Previous to that, I was… In lumpley games Participants: 14thWarrior.
4/30/2007 Veraticus: Some Standard Newbie Questions Hi everyone!
I think these questions have been asked before on this forum... but regrettably I can't seem to actually search it, so please forgive me for putting them once… In lumpley games Participants: Veraticus, Valamir, EarthSea, lumpley.
5/5/2007 Archer5280: DitV Conflict Flowchart Hello, all!
I am brand new to DitV, and this is my first post on this forum. However, I am trying to run an introductory online DitV game. So, to… In lumpley games Participants: Archer5280, demiurgeastaroth, oliof, Web_Weaver, Karl, Yokiboy, EarthSea.
5/7/2007 Malthusian: [Afraid] Tentative Release Date? Any guesses as to when the full Afraid system will be available? In lumpley games Participants: Malthusian, lumpley, Matt Wilson.
5/7/2007 foucalt: Actual Play from Camp Nerdly Jason was kind enough to start an AP thread about the historically drifted DitV game (one of several Dogs games that happened) at Camp Nerdly. In lumpley games Participants: foucalt.
5/8/2007 Rughat: Changing a Trait In our recently started game of Dogs (two sessions so far, and I've got AP posts on the way) an interesting question came up: can a trait ever change? Not… In lumpley games Participants: Rughat, lumpley, Filip Luszczyk.
5/11/2007 Malthusian: [Afraid] Quick question If a player's character has a pet (dog, cat, whatever) that would defend the character where would be the best place to put that pet on the character sheet:
Under… In lumpley games Participants: Malthusian, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley.
5/11/2007 JC: [DITV] Temple Creek Branch... advice? [long] hi :)
this is my first town, so I'd like a little advice
even though I've stolen bits and pieces from other towns floating around the net, I'm worried it's… In lumpley games Participants: JC.
5/12/2007 BeatGuy83: [DitV] Newbie Question (answer ASP please!) Hey All:
I'm really excited to run my first session of DitV tomorrow. However, I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around how traits and belongings work into the… In lumpley games Participants: BeatGuy83, Eliarhiman6, lumpley.
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