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3/2/2008 Alan: [IaWA] Suggestions for clarifications of rule text
Hi Vincent, After playing some games and reading your responses to questions, I think I understand the rules text. I've found some points, especially those about narration during dice rolling,…
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Participants: Alan, lumpley, demiurgeastaroth, Valvorik.

3/1/2008 lumpley: For Rafial: interesting play in Poison'd
Here's the conversation so far: Okay I had gotten as far as:  If the system is handing back results to the fiction, then if Dirty Pete…
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Participants: lumpley, rafial.

2/29/2008 Tancred: [IAWA] Conflict questions/clarifications
I ran In a Wicked Age for the first time last week for 4 players and it worked very well I think. There were a couple of minor questions that…
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Participants: Tancred, lumpley.

2/29/2008 Greymorn: [DitV] To the bitter end?
I'm re-reading the rules and hoping I can put a group of Dogs together to run my first full game. I ran into a confusing point. (This is hypothetical, I…
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Participants: Greymorn, lumpley.

2/28/2008 Nyarly: [IaWA] Three soft places
So, LA gamers took the Wicked Age for a spin last night, and we were our usual ruthless selves with the rules.  Dice worked out fine, we had a lot…
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Participants: Nyarly, Valvorik.

2/27/2008 Alan: [IaWA] Play Aid for Best Interests
I came up with an idea for mapping Best Interests to help focus play preparation. Here's the sheet I came up with and a tutorial for using it. It places…
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Participants: Alan, Valvorik, rycanada, oliof, jenskot, David Artman.

2/26/2008 Nyarly: [IaWA] 3 rounds?
We're planning to actually give In a Wicked Age a shot this evening, and having read the rules text, I'm pretty clear on how everything works.  What I'm trying to…
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Participants: Nyarly, Thor Olavsrud, Valvorik, lumpley.

2/26/2008 Valamir: Problems with Poisn'd
Ok, so after GoPlayPeoria, Tim K, Julie, Ron, Matt S, and myself returned to my place to play some Poisn'd. Character creation went off without a hitch.  There was some…
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Participants: Valamir, lumpley, Matt Snyder, Ben Lehman, rafial, Peter Nordstrand, Eero Tuovinen, Temple, Ron Edwards, Emily Care.

2/26/2008 SavageInOz: [DitV] Judges in the Mega-City - alternate setting
Had a great idea for an alternate setting for DitV (although I love the standard setting): Judges in the Mega-City ----------------------------------- Based on the 2000AD comic Judge Dread. Really easy…
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Participants: SavageInOz, Peturabo, zornwil, demiurgeastaroth.

2/25/2008 Valvorik: [IAWA] Excerpts of AP and some Q's
Siege of Akar Dal Vincent noted lack of AP reports with dice/round by round included etc. This was a game couple of weeks back over Skype, two sessions, hoping to…
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Participants: Valvorik, DainXB.

2/24/2008 Rustin: [IaWA] Consequential Damage to NPC forms
Do we lower the highest dice? Do we lower both dice? Does the victor chose which dice to lower?
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Participants: Rustin, lumpley, Valvorik, WildElf.

2/22/2008 Alan: [IaWA] Advantage dice question
Hi again Vincent, Advantage dice. It's clear from the text that an advantage dice bought from the Owe list is kept until the end of a conflict, but I find…
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Participants: Alan, lumpley, WildElf, rycanada, Valvorik.

2/21/2008 Christopher Kubasik: I ask Vincent a bunch of questions like I was a horde of flying monkeys
I wrote a long post in another thread, and then realized this was it's own thread. The original thread is here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25765.0. Each "to hit" roll…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Eliarhiman6, Alan, lumpley, DainXB, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

2/21/2008 a_verheaghe: [IaWA] Actual play threads or play examples anywhere?
I've got the rules, read them and went wow! I really want to play and it seems so simple, but then I started thinking about it, and after a few…
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Participants: a_verheaghe.

2/21/2008 Finarvyn: [DitV] Total Newbie
I'm a total newbie to Dogs in the Vineyard. So new, in fact, that the copy I ordered hasn't even come in the mail yet. I should probably hold off…
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Participants: Finarvyn, JC, lumpley, Eliarhiman6, Transit, Warren.

2/20/2008 hix: [In a Wicked Age] Help me understand dice matching
I'm enjoying reading through the game, but the "Dice, Action & Consequences" chapter still baffles me after several readings. My basic confusion is whether the person who is answering compares…
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Participants: hix, Eliarhiman6, Alan, Wolfen, lumpley.

2/18/2008 Alan: How to create an Oracle?
Over at Story Games I started a discussion aimed at creating a complete Oracle with images derived from Robert Howard's Conan stories ( Help me create a Conan Oracle…
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Participants: Alan, DainXB.

2/17/2008 Alan: [IaWA] Question on Consequences
In a chapter yesterday at ConQuest story games lounge, I GMed this situation: An NPC priestess declared that she and Balthior, a PC pass through a marriage arch and say…
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Participants: Alan, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley, Eliarhiman6, Christopher Kubasik, Ben Lehman.

2/16/2008 rycanada: [Wicked] PStr question
I kind of get the difference but have had a hard time explaining it to players. What is the difference between what you should write in the Description of a…
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Participants: rycanada, lumpley.

2/16/2008 Trevis Martin: Yet another IAWA Question and Love Fest
Well not a fest exactly, but it sounded more dramatic that way. Vincent, thanks for this game.  My two friends and I had a great time playing tonight and it…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, lumpley, Valvorik.

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3/3/2008 Artanis: [IaWA] Tossing Particular strengths around
Disclaimer: I'm suspecting a major case of thickness is hiding under this post, I just can't find the relevant game text. I remember in AG&G that you could give mastery…
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Participants: Artanis, lumpley, Piers Brown.

3/5/2008 lumpley: [Poison'd] Burning down Cartegena
This is about a problem with Poison'd that Ralph raised, here. I have zero interest in talking right now about how well the text communicates. I'm going to go back…
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Participants: lumpley, Valamir, demiurgeastaroth, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Snyder, Piers Brown, rafial.

3/8/2008 Peturabo: Narrative Integrity
Hi ya'll I was brainstorming a DitV Town when ideas about narrative integrity popped into my head. I posted about my feelings on the boards at my local club, and…
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Participants: Peturabo, Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

3/9/2008 Willem: [IAWA] "Don't Get All Buddhist On Me" - Drinking the Wine and Making Story Now!
I've posted a couple times about my history, but since it probably got lost in the glorious shuffle that we call the Forge, here we go again: I haven't played…
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Participants: Willem, DainXB, lumpley, timeless.

3/11/2008 lachek: [DitV] GM determined Sin
<background> In Indy Pete's posts here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25901.0 and here: http://www.ukroleplayers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3343 he uses an example of a town preacher declaring the Apocalypse is coming and the sign will be the arrival…
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Participants: lachek, lumpley, oliof, Greymorn, Slow Dog, Eliarhiman6, Alan.

3/13/2008 rycanada: [IAWA] Setting up fortifications
Say that 2 of the players are soldiers who have sworn to hold a particular pass; each one has an advantage of 'My men are at my side' reflecting the…
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Participants: rycanada, lumpley, Valvorik, DainXB.

3/13/2008 rycanada: [IAWA] Maximum Prep?
"Let's say" "for the sake of argument" I'm "hypothetically" "thinking about" planning to run a really long IAWA game.  I'm deadset on making my own oracle for the whole thing,…
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Participants: rycanada, Ben Lehman, Alan, Troels.

3/13/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [IAWA] Particular Strengths questions
After playing a few games with different groups, I have some questions about the way Particular Strengths work. It's the one thing that people seemed to be doing differently. Note…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, lumpley, rycanada, Artanis, DainXB, Valvorik, Brand_Robins.

3/14/2008 Garth: [IAWA} Character Recurrence
I just picked up the game, and WOW!  I very much want to try it, though the usual issues of time and group scheduling may prevent it for who knows…
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Participants: Garth, lumpley, Brand_Robins, WildElf.

3/17/2008 Nathan Herrold: (IaWA) - Oracle Schmoracle
Vincent, What do you think about Oracles written in the 1st and 2nd person? I'm trying to write up an Oracle for Camp Nerdly using lyrics from Bob Dylan songs.…
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Participants: Nathan Herrold, lumpley, lachek.

3/18/2008 gorckat: [DitV] Archons in Elysium
An idea I've been rolling around in my head for awhile, since I know my wife isn't keen on Old Western type game, is a Dogs game set in old…
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Participants: gorckat, David Artman.

3/22/2008 Darcy Burgess: [Dogs] I will brook no Dissent.
[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452623/]Gone Baby Gone[/url] = Dogs In every important way. Submit! D
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Participants: Darcy Burgess, GreatWolf, lachek.

3/22/2008 rycanada: [IAWA] Wicked Dice Map
I threw this together for my players, might help some of the questions.  Let me know if anything is wrong with it: Wicked Dice Map
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Participants: rycanada, demiurgeastaroth.

3/25/2008 lumpley: Why you don't roll two particular strengths
I've been saying "because it reduces the value of the advantage die." But what I really mean is, "so that there's still doubling on round 1 and (especially, given the…
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Participants: lumpley, rycanada.

3/29/2008 legion329: [DitV] First Play
Hello everyone. I'm going to post up what happened in my first DitV session last night. But first, note the following: I heard of DitV about two days ago,…
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Participants: legion329, Peturabo.

4/2/2008 Halfred: [DitV] Rules clarification for a newbie
Hi, folks. I'm very new to Dogs, but I threw caution to the wind and volunteered to run a game a small convention here in Vermont. I have run a…
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Participants: Halfred, jburneko.

4/2/2008 jburneko: [In A Wicked Age...] Social Conflict Subtlety
I've seen it said that there is no social conflict resolution in In A Wicked Age... However, given my reading of the text I think I see a subtlety in…
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Participants: jburneko, Brand_Robins, Valvorik, Mike Holmes, lumpley.

4/3/2008 Valvorik: IAWA NPC's returning
NPC's don't reassign dice when they come back.  Since that is how damage is healed, does this mean NPC's always come back "damaged"? I admit the times I've played 2nd+…
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Participants: Valvorik, DainXB, lumpley.

4/5/2008 Valvorik: [IAWA] Talky But Fun Session
[i]Alia and the Lord of the Leprechauns[/i] I ran a tutorial/game of IAWA for two friends when our regular D&D night was cancelled because critical mass of players couldn’t make…
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Participants: Valvorik.

4/9/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [DitV] On seppuku and saving throws vs. area effects
There's a kind of Raise we had a couple of times in our recent games and don't really know how to handle. The problem arises when a Raise targets multiple…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, lumpley, Ward, demiurgeastaroth, jburneko, zornwil.

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