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6/22/2007 MichaelCurry: [Afraid] Monster Bonds?
I'm prepping a game of Afraid for next weekend, and I've found myself stuck on choosing non-victim Bonds for the monster. The obvious choices that I come up with tend…
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Participants: MichaelCurry, Valvorik, lumpley.

6/21/2007 GB Steve: Wasteland
So, last night was the first game that one of our group has run for us. I don't think he had much experience of narrative gaming before he joined us…
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Participants: GB Steve.

6/18/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [DitV] The Pirate Game
An idea for a pirate mod came to my mind today. Dunno if I run it, but might just as well share. There are no Dogs as in "we go…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, lumpley, zornwil, Archer5280.

6/18/2007 zornwil: Relationship Reflection Dice Rules Question (simple!)
Hi - I've been thinking something worked a certain way....and realizing after all this time, maybe I'm dead wrong... "Add any two dice to your unassigned Relationship dice" - okay,…
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Participants: zornwil, Filip Luszczyk.

6/16/2007 zornwil: [Afraid] Clarification needed on Afraid group NPC Answers in Conflicts
Hi, I'm not quite grokking one thing (er, at least one thing, but I THINK only one thing!) in Afraid group conflict resolution.  I searched the boards and didn't find…
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Participants: zornwil, Filip Luszczyk.

6/16/2007 The Bane: Disclosure
This may be a funny question to most, but I just purchased the PDF and am dieing to run a PbP game of it. I am wondering what amount/type of…
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Participants: The Bane, zornwil, Filip Luszczyk.

6/15/2007 Valvorik: [DitV/Afraid] Sequence of Stakes Resolution and Fallout
The sequence in the rules is (a) last person in conflict resolves stakes; (b) everyone rolls fallout. It seems to me that the "fiction being created" would flow more smoothly…
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Participants: Valvorik, Eliarhiman6.

6/15/2007 zornwil: [DitV] d12s?
(First, I'd like to apologize for not properly putting the "" in front of my other posts, still getting used to this board's etiquette) I searched posts on d12s in…
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Participants: zornwil, David Artman, Filip Luszczyk, lumpley, eldunce.

6/13/2007 zornwil: More on Dogs and action-adventure, but for long-running campaigns and Exp.
As mentioned in my other post of today, we are doing Dogs with action-adventure more and more. One thing that we haven't decided on is how Experience/Fall-out should work where…
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Participants: zornwil, lumpley.

6/13/2007 zornwil: Dogs mechanics, action-adventure, and lethality
Warning - long post. First, we are really digging Dogs a lot.  So much so, that we are expanding it into "traditional" action-adventure realms, as it well-complements the kinds of…
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Participants: zornwil, lumpley, Filip Luszczyk.

6/13/2007 Archer5280: [DitV / Afraid] Some Actual Play-by-Post Play
So, I've posted a few items on these boards related to my play-by-post game, regarding conflict tracking and rules and dice rolling, and ceremonies. Some other players in the game…
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Participants: Archer5280, The Bane.

6/13/2007 The Bane: [DitV] - Archons in the Night
All, Let me say that I am a DitV noob. I bought the PDF when I saw it on a forum being run. I have since joined that game and…
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Participants: The Bane, Filip Luszczyk, David Artman, lumpley.

6/12/2007 Valvorik: Afraid fallouts and circumstances
Couple of questions (1)  For GM Fallout, Acolyte and Slave bonds are never listed as something to reveal.  I think it makes sense that in a conflict involving either, assuming…
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Participants: Valvorik.

6/10/2007 Palmer: [DiTV] how many dice of each type have you used, in total, during play?
Hi, what's the max number of dice of each type you've used during a play session? I'm going to order dice for a group of 4, but I don't know…
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Participants: Palmer, Glendower, Gugliandalf, epweissengruber, Warren, Filip Luszczyk, fjj, Transit, WildElf.

6/4/2007 Jonathan Hastings: [DitV] What should possession look like in a low supernatural dial game?
So - I'm GMing my first game of Dogs for James and Scott.  James has skimmed through the rules before and Scott is coming to the table having heard about…
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Participants: Jonathan Hastings, demiurgeastaroth, oliof, Ron Edwards, lumpley, zornwil.

6/2/2007 JC: [DITV / Afraid] Raising stats with experience
hi :) I noticed the option to raise one of your stats with experience fallout is missing from the "Afraid" PDF this caught my attention because it's one of the…
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Participants: JC, lumpley.

5/27/2007 ja-prozac: Great DitV inspiration
Hi While searching for Jay Ward cartoons on youtube I've found something that almost exactly fits for Dogs in the Vineyard. It's Crusader Rabbit. In episode 8 one can see…
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Participants: ja-prozac, Filip Luszczyk.

5/24/2007 Jathromir: [Dogs] Attempt at Starfleet in the Final Frontier
This thread is a pinch from this http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19284.0 I like the concepts but thought to bring them together and try to clean it up and see what…
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Participants: Jathromir, oliof, David Artman, 14thWarrior, lumpley, oreso, Gugliandalf, zornwil.

5/23/2007 Filip Luszczyk: I need to make sure I get Belongings right
Am I right that: 1.Belongings are essentialy very specialized Traits, i.e. technically they are dice attached to the character and not to the actual object. 2.The only way to gain…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, lumpley.

5/23/2007 Gaerik: Giving in DitV
There are a couple of threads in Actual Play concerning DitV and one of them is discussing Giving during a conflict and the conversation there is making me think that…
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Participants: Gaerik, lumpley, Eliarhiman6.

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7/7/2007 JC: Defining relationships with NPCs before play?
playing (GMing) my third game of Dogs tonight, via IRC... I'm excited :) a quick question: how does one go about defining relationships between PCs and NPCs before play? do…
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Participants: JC, Pyromancer, lumpley.

7/10/2007 damiller: DitV for Silver Age Supers...
How do I do it? My input. I don't think that there is much need to change stats or anything like that, seeing as how superheroes generally are people. My…
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Participants: damiller, David Artman, Eliarhiman6, Archer5280, zornwil, sinanju, Filip Luszczyk.

7/11/2007 XSiberia: [FitV] & NWN: The game I'm looking for.
Hello forum! I discovered DitV (and "The Forge") this morning, by way of the conversion Firefly in the Verse--which I found linked here. It looks fascinating! I've been out of…
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Participants: XSiberia, lumpley, The Bane, Archer5280.

7/12/2007 sacredchao: printing the .pdf
I'm just wandering what the best way to go about printing the .pdf is. I ask as the full color cover page is not 8.5 x 11, and the actual…
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Participants: sacredchao, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley.

7/17/2007 TomTitTot: Characters: simply cyphers for Players?
I have a quick but important question for you old hands here at DitV. I am concerned that Dogs is designed to evoke and elicit judgements from players via characters…
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Participants: TomTitTot, Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

7/17/2007 drnuncheon: Mechaton: Junkyard Wars
Presented straight from the shower, unplaytested and unrefined, it's Mechaton: Junkyard Wars (or Mechaton: Scrapyard Challenge for those of you across the Atlantic) What you need: a circular table a…
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Participants: drnuncheon, Uriel.

7/18/2007 14thWarrior: [DitV] Finally! My first time running DitV is done! Used Orchard Plains.
Well, it took me over half a year, but I finally got a group together and we played some Dogs in the Vineyard.  The group I managed to pull together…
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Participants: 14thWarrior, lumpley, Sztalker.

7/19/2007 JC: [DITV] Question
hi :) had a little problem during our last session I'll go into the specifics of the scene, but I think the problem's more of a general one here's what…
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Participants: JC, 5niper9, oliof, Eliarhiman6, lumpley, Filip Luszczyk.

7/21/2007 Snowden: [DitV] What are all these dice "worth," anyway?
I realize there may not be a simple answer to this question, but do people have a sense of the relative effectiveness of various dice combinations?  Is a 2d6 trait…
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Participants: Snowden, 5niper9, lumpley.

7/24/2007 JC: [DITV] Escalating (quick rules question)
hi :) a quick question about escalating I understand that you can escalate from any arena to any arena (clarified here on the forum) so starting out with shooting and…
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Participants: JC, Gaerik, Filip Luszczyk, Valamir, lumpley.

7/24/2007 14thWarrior: [DitV] Need advice on a town - Stygian Gulch
As I posted earlier, I finally managed to run a most excellent pair of sessions of DitV, and the group is raring for more.  The players have provided some nice…
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Participants: 14thWarrior, Gaerik, 5niper9, Valamir.

7/24/2007 drnuncheon: [Mechaton] Unintentional Rules Drift/Damage variant
So I introduced some unintentional rules drift into the Mechaton games at the con this weekend - specifically, that white dice could be lost whenever the defender wanted (instead of…
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Participants: drnuncheon.

7/25/2007 JC: [DITV] Looking for a player for this Sunday
hey :) I'm playing Dogs via IRC this Sunday with a friend, and we'd like an extra player we'll be playing from 14:30 to 20:30 GMT if you're interested, give…
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Participants: JC, damiller.

7/27/2007 lumpley: Dogs fans: wanna see something cool?
[url=http://www.fairgame-rpgs.com/comment.php?entry=117]Fair Game: Designing for Dogs[/url] -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley, JC, David Artman, The Bane, Andrew Morris, Meguey, Ben Lehman.

7/31/2007 WillH: [DitV] Town: Providence Mountain/Gunpowder Pass
First a little background on how I came to create this town.  I was curious about what sort of situations would develop if large groups of faithful and unfaithful came…
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Participants: WillH, JC, 14thWarrior.

8/5/2007 JC: [DITV] Question about follow-up conflicts
hi folks :) had a most excellent time yesterday playing DITV over IRC! but here's my question: I've played about half a dozen DITV sessions so far (both player and…
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Participants: JC, 5niper9, lumpley, Filip Luszczyk.

8/21/2007 wunderllama: [Poison'd] Question about ship combat escalation
I had some questions after the demo of Poison’d that I played at GenCon about the ship-to-ship combat. When we played the demo and started out at pursuit, we seemed…
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Participants: wunderllama, lumpley, rafial.

8/21/2007 BTRC_Minion: [Poison'd] Book of first-hand account of a pirate's activities.
I mentioned this book at GenCon, but I couldn't properly remember the title, nor properly pronounce the (probably Dutch) author's name.  For those interested, it's "THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA" by…
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Participants: BTRC_Minion.

8/21/2007 KingOfFarPoint: [DitV] Rationing screen time. Handling unexpected changes in cast.
After a long period struggling to find players who will try an indie game I now have players for a DitV series. But there are a couple of problems 1)…
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Participants: KingOfFarPoint, lumpley, Filip Luszczyk, JC.

8/21/2007 KingOfFarPoint: Invoking others traits?
During character creation I was trying to explain how traits might get invoked in play and in passing said something along the lines of "of course, if you take a…
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Participants: KingOfFarPoint, 5niper9, Ice Cream Emperor, Filip Luszczyk.

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