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9/28/2007 Troels: Where's IaWA?
Hello I've played the mag. version of IaWA quite a bit, and enjoyed it hugely. It was actually the very first Indie game that I played -funny thing it hasn't…
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Participants: Troels, lumpley.

9/27/2007 AnakinOU: [DitV] Relationships as fallout?
If I'm not mistaken, you can take relationships (at d4) as minor fallout from conflicts.  Most other fallout seems to be negative...taking injuries, lowering stats, etc.  How is getting additional…
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Participants: AnakinOU, Web_Weaver, lumpley, ffilz.

9/27/2007 Archer5280: [DitV] Holy Moley, what an awesome game!
OK, so I know I'm not the first person to say something like this, but I have just finished up my first couple of conflicts in the first DitV game…
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Participants: Archer5280, lumpley, The Bane.

9/22/2007 Rustin: [DitV] Dog's Authority
I’ve been asked to run a Dog’s game in the near future. With so many different gaming systems in my head (I’ve been reading and playing lots of new games…
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Participants: Rustin, Noclue, Web_Weaver, Artanis, lumpley.

9/21/2007 zornwil: Action-Adventure Dogs - Playtesting, Info, Play Experiences...
Well, just lost the post I was starting to write... Anyway, this is a follow-up to something that's been mentioned in this forum before, using Dogs in the Vineyard's core…
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Participants: zornwil, Filip Luszczyk, Valamir.

9/21/2007 Noclue: [Mechaton] Help get me playing Right.
So, I bought mechaton. I'm mostly an RPGer but I have these LEGO Mindstorm sets that are sitting around collecting dust. So I thought Mechaton might be fun. Anyway, I…
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Participants: Noclue, David Artman, lumpley.

9/20/2007 AnakinOU: [DitV] Noob question...gaming the system?
I'm completely new to the whole "storytelling/indie/Forge" RPG scene, so please forgive me if I'm a bit off base.  Having never even SEEN DitV in play...I'm a little concerned about…
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Participants: AnakinOU, lumpley, Joe Dizzy.

9/14/2007 Willow: [Ditv] Town- Zion's Stump
This wasn't written up using the normal town creation rules, but rather a method discussed under my Ethically Neutral Town Creation thread- http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24827.0 If you're in one of my Madison…
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Participants: Willow, Trevis Martin, lumpley.

9/13/2007 Willow: Ethically Neutral Town Creation?
So, Dogs has it as a given that the players are the arbiter of morality right?  Yet in town creation, the GM passes judgement on a whole bunch of NPCs-…
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Participants: Willow, Danny_K, JC, Valamir, Filip Luszczyk, lumpley.

9/13/2007 Archer5280: [DitV] Relationships between PCs
This may very well be covered in another thread, but my search fu is weak, so here goes... What's the stance on taking relationships between PCs? What if two PCs…
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Participants: Archer5280, Eliarhiman6, JC, lumpley.

9/12/2007 agony: Dogs with less dice
Vincent, I recall an old post of yours (over a year ago, maybe even two) where you stated that one thing you would change about DitV would be the starting…
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Participants: agony, lumpley, Filip Luszczyk, Web_Weaver.

9/7/2007 Willow: [Poison'd] A Boring Thread About Theory
Ok Vincent, let's go.  Bring it on.
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Participants: Willow, JC, Temple, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Andrew Barton, Eliarhiman6, Christopher Kubasik, Parthenia.

9/6/2007 Troels: Wicked Pirates
Hello there Poison'd sounds interesting, and reminds me of an interesting pirate experience I had some years ago, so I thought I'd share. In the pre-Forge days of yore, when…
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Participants: Troels, lumpley.

9/2/2007 Levi Kornelsen: Poison'd: Why, now?
So, Vincent, as I understand it, you've built a game in which players are rewarded for doing horrible things, or having horrible things done to them. That is to say,…
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Participants: Levi Kornelsen, lumpley, coffeestain, Valamir, Jye Nicolson, Emily Care, Temple.

8/30/2007 Mandrake: [DitV]Follow on conflicts & Injuries
We've just finished a session with the Dogs dealing with some children gone very bad. The last scene took place in the school house. One of the dogs was facing…
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Participants: Mandrake, zornwil.

8/30/2007 Temple: Stillwater Branch. My first DitV town; Ive created a monster!
So I was sitting at work today with the book in front of me, and I realised I wanted to try my hands at making a town. Id never tried…
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Participants: Temple, JC, wreckage.

8/29/2007 Temple: [Poison'd] Rules question after initial read-through.
I printed my newly aquired Poison'd pdf and read the whole ting like 5 or 6 times at work today. Its awesome. That said, I discovered one little thing that…
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Participants: Temple, lumpley.

8/27/2007 kallisti_dk: What's the latest news on Afraid
I recently started thinking about Afraid again and became all giddy with anticipation. Ís there a tentative release date? Is playtesting coming along nicely? Anything new to add?
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Participants: kallisti_dk, lumpley.

8/27/2007 coffeestain: [Poison'd] Various Things
So, Saturday, there were two groups playing Poison'd.  The group that was not mine posed some concerns.  I'm pasting my responses here to see if they make sense to you,…
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Participants: coffeestain, lumpley, John Harper.

8/27/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Mechaton] - First Sortie Questions
So, I tricked my friend Karin into playing Mechaton with me, by just dumping a bucket of Legos out in front of her and not telling her it was going…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, lumpley, Uriel, Mantisking.

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10/11/2007 yellowparis: [IaWA] Injury and Exhaustion
Something I don't get: Why does dice damage, when received, only damage 'endure duress' or 'exert yourself'?  Seems odd ... like, if I've just been shamed before the community, my…
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Participants: yellowparis, Valvorik, lumpley.

10/18/2007 Neil the Wimp: [DitV] Conflicts are tensionless
I finally get to play in a mini-campaign of DitV and things aren't going so well.  We're doing a 'rotating GM' thing where each of us takes it in turn…
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Participants: Neil the Wimp, lumpley, Eliarhiman6, aescleal, knicknevin, David Artman, Noclue, ffilz, Claudia Cangini, John Harper.

10/24/2007 cdr: [ZomV] Corporate Zombies at Endgame Minicon October
I ran episode 6 of Zombies in the Vineyard at the October Endgame minicon last Saturday and strongly confirmed that having prior relationships among the PCs is the way to…
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Participants: cdr.

11/2/2007 Rustin: [iaWA]questions
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20791.msg216100#msg216100]authority[/url] I've been feeling slightly guilty for exercising content authority in this game, as a player. How would conflict between players or between player and GM on back-story elements proceed?…
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Participants: Rustin, Troels, lumpley, John Harper.

11/5/2007 Filip Luszczyk: Creating Backgrounds
In the discussion about using Dogs for action-adventure games a question of how the dice were assigned to Backgrounds in DitV and Afraid emerged. I find it interesting - what…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, JC, lumpley, Ben Lehman, zornwil, Marhault.

11/7/2007 Arvidos: [Mechaton] My first game
Hullo! I played two games of Mechaton (One of three players and one of four) at a modest but pleasant gathering of gamers this weekend. Both games went rather slow,…
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Participants: Arvidos, Yokiboy, lumpley.

11/7/2007 chaldfont: [Mechaton] Buying from Bricklink
I recently bought Mechaton and I'm trying to get some mechs together to run a session for my friends. I bought enough pieces for a couple of Vincent's mechs from…
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Participants: chaldfont, lumpley, Noclue, Yokiboy, Mantisking, David Artman.

11/8/2007 Troels: [IaWA] Pyrrhic Victory
Hello there, My friends and I, here in Copenhagen, have been playing In a Wicked Age for a bit more than two years now. Since we took our point of…
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Participants: Troels, lumpley.

11/13/2007 zornwil: Dogs becoming sorcerers?
Hi, I don't have anything to contribute on this, sorry, but as the "?" in the topic implies, I'm curious about others' experience, both qualitatively and mechanically?  Ben Lehman's analysis…
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Participants: zornwil, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Nathaniel, Filip Luszczyk, jburneko, devonapple, lumpley, David Artman.

11/14/2007 zardok: [DitV] Firefly setting revisited
I read a bunch of stuff on here say a year and a half ago about playing DitV in the Firefly universe.  Thought it sounded cool and that I'd get…
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Participants: zardok.

11/14/2007 Transit: [Ditv] List of interesting traits?
My players easily come up with traits like "I'm great with a gun" and "I never lose a fistfight" but they get stuck when it comes to thinking of traits…
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Participants: Transit, Ben Lehman, jburneko, Ron Edwards, chriscrouch, Everspinner, lumpley, Valamir, Arvidos, Noclue, charlesperez, Nathaniel, David Artman, zornwil, travisjhall, dyreno.

11/19/2007 Rustin: [IaWA]Multiple Intentions or multiple effects
One player describes their character planting a bomb in a car, intending to kill all who are in the car when the bomb goes off. Two named characters get in…
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Participants: Rustin, Valvorik, lumpley.

11/28/2007 jmhpfan: Dogs in the Tower (a Stephen King hack)
    I am a big fan of Dogs in the Vineyard and of Stephen King's Dark Tower series.  I keep thinking that these two were made for each other. …
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Participants: jmhpfan, lumpley, Filip Luszczyk, LordAsteroth, zornwil.

12/3/2007 zornwil: Update on Action-Adventure Dogs - Introducing Weaknesses, other tweaks
This is basically an update following http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24903.0 The updated rules document is at http://www.realschluss.org/action_dogs/Dogs-provisional-action-rules.doc The document was updated to have Story Arc as the default but still discusses how to…
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Participants: zornwil, lumpley.

12/4/2007 JC: [DITV] Special edition cover?
hi :) a friend\'s birthday is coming up, and I\'d like to get him one of those special edition DITV books, with a different cover can anyone tell me if…
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Participants: JC, lumpley, David Artman.

12/6/2007 Dev: [Mechaton] Compliments and rules questions
We played the short version of the game and had a great time of it! The first team to rush the satellite actually managed to hang on to it, but…
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Participants: Dev, lumpley, JCunkle.

12/7/2007 TheHappyAnarchist: Going to run a playtest of Afraid
Probably right around after the new year. Should be 2-4 players.  1 new to roleplaying, 2-3 seasoned vets.  The seasoned vets have experience with White Wolf's stuff, primarily Exalted but…
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Participants: TheHappyAnarchist, Filip Luszczyk, lumpley.

12/7/2007 Glendower: [DITV] My new group has questions
Hello there everyone. So I've been running Dogs in the Vineyard with a new group, and after a rocky start our second town really hit the groove. Colin, the player…
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Participants: Glendower, Noclue, zornwil, lumpley, David Artman.

12/15/2007 Dustin of the Dead: Mechaton rules questions
Hello, I purchased this game for my little brother-in-law (13) who happens to be the proud owner of the biggest collection of Lego collection I have ever seen. I have…
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Participants: Dustin of the Dead, cdr, lumpley, Mantisking, David Artman.

12/20/2007 Vanoj: [DitV] A matter of timing
This issue came up in the session of Dogs that I ran (for the first time) last night with a group of my friends. I'll give an example to illustrate…
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Participants: Vanoj, Eliarhiman6, lumpley, Noclue.

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