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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.

11/8/2007 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.

11/7/2007 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.

11/7/2007 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.

11/5/2007 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.

11/2/2007 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.

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.

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.

10/11/2007 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.

10/6/2007 LordAsteroth: [DitV] Fallout and traits for belongings
At work the other night, I was hit by an idea: Why not make it possible for belongings to take the blow in appropriate situations (for instance, your faithful hound…
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Participants: LordAsteroth, zornwil.

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.

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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.

12/22/2007 Filip Luszczyk: Online NPC generator doesn't work?
So, I've just started a session and, as usually, I wanted to generate Proto-NPCs using the online generator. However, this is what I see instead of a shiny new six-pack:…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Vanoj, Yokiboy, lumpley, Dev, Wolfen.

12/29/2007 Tuxhedoh: [DitV] Noob- finding players
I'm new to RPG's in general, DitV intriques me and I can find a few friends that are interested in playing, but none are experienced GM's .  I'm in the…
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Participants: Tuxhedoh, JC.

1/2/2008 lumpley: In a Wicked Age now preorderable
Anybody feels like preordering In a Wicked Age, you can, here. Or you can click the link just to see the cover illustration. I'm proud of it. -Vincent
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Participants: lumpley, Yokiboy, kallisti_dk, Nev the Deranged.

1/7/2008 devonapple: [Afraid / Hounds] Newcomer
I'm working on a Call of Cthulhu adventure using the DitV system, and have run across both "Afraid" and "Hounds on the Moor" on these discussion boards.  I observed the…
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Participants: devonapple, lumpley, Nathaniel, Rustin.

1/8/2008 David Artman: Why Relationships With People?
Or, to be more specific, why would I ever want to establish my unassigned Relationship dice with an individual in a particular Town? OK, I see the basic benefit of…
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Participants: David Artman, Ben Lehman, devonapple, lumpley, zornwil, Noclue.

1/9/2008 lumpley: Mr foot, welcome to mouthville (an interview)
A couple weeks ago Rob Bohl interviewed me about In a Wicked Age, and now he's put the interview up online: The Independent Insurgency Episode 002. I'm happy to answer…
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Participants: lumpley, Nathaniel, John Harper, RobNJ, sirogit, GreatWolf, Wolfen, Artanis.

1/10/2008 David Artman: Alternate Rules For Healer Fallout Dice
So, having heard that healer fallout is d4s (we ended a session in doubt), I have considered a few alternate fallout dice rules for healers, just for grins: Take the…
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Participants: David Artman, lumpley.

1/10/2008 JamesDJIII: [dogs] A question about Taking The Blow and fallout dice size
I'll post the AP for the Dogs game I ran with David Artman and another buddy later. Right now, I have questions! Situation is that David's dog makes a Raise…
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Participants: JamesDJIII, Filip Luszczyk, lumpley, David Artman, dindenver, demiurgeastaroth.

1/11/2008 devonapple: [Dogs/Afraid]
In "Afraid," I am assuming it is implicit that the Victims are all developed with the same Stats/Traits/Belongings/Bonds as other NPCs, yes?  The sections on developing Slaves and Acolytes mention…
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Participants: devonapple, lumpley.

1/12/2008 Landon Darkwood: [In a Wicked Age] Setting and events...
Vincent, I noticed that the current draft of IAWA sort of leaves out or glosses over all the discussion about setting elements that was in your 'Creating Situation: a practical…
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Participants: Landon Darkwood, lumpley, John Harper, Nathaniel, DainXB.

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