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2/3/2004 lumpley: GMs: Creating Scenarios
Rules: SETUP Draw a circle. Put a dot and arrow in it for each PC plus one for the Territorial Authority plus one for the Faith. Leave room; you can…
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Participants: lumpley, bluegargantua, Clinton R. Nixon, inthisstyle.

2/3/2004 lumpley: Current Game Text
Dogs' working text lives here, in .doc form: http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/outline.doc Soon it will live here, in .pdf form: http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/pdfs/outline.pdf So that's good.
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Participants: lumpley, drozdal.

2/3/2004 lumpley: Welcome!
This here's Dogs in the Vineyard's super-secret hidden playtest forum. The game's not a secret, but, like Paul and his My Life with Master playtest, I'd just as soon keep…
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Participants: lumpley.

2/3/2004 lumpley: A Gigantic Favor
Anybody who has a few free minutes, would you do me a gigantic favor? Check out the scenario creation procedure and make a town? As though you were going to…
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Participants: lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, bluegargantua, nikola, ScottM, inthisstyle.

2/4/2004 inthisstyle: Religion and the Game
[quote="Clinton R. Nixon"]Otherwise, this is pretty easy, but I also come from a religious background, so ideas leap at me. I imagine playing this with my current group would not…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Clinton R. Nixon, bluegargantua, nikola, Librisia, lumpley.

2/5/2004 Jake Norwood: Where I can help...
Hi all. I don't know if I'm the only practicing Mormon on the board (I get that suspicion), but as I was reading the game some things really struck me.…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, inthisstyle, lumpley.

2/9/2004 patientfox: Ceremonies in DitV
I recall in the older dogsoutline.doc file, there were some more structured rules layed down in regards to how ceremonies would work in DitV. That idea was abandoned later in…
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Participants: patientfox, lumpley, Librisia, Jake Norwood, bluegargantua.

2/12/2004 lumpley: A Hitch in Character Creation
Tom pointed this out to me at VeriCon and a character creation session last night drove it well home. When you create your character, you say something that you hope…
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Participants: lumpley, inthisstyle, Emily Care, bluegargantua.

2/12/2004 lumpley: An Important Lesson to Learn
If you're explaining and you say "you know, like in a western," and your (potential) players just keep staring at you blankly? Dogs is going to be a hard sell.…
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Participants: lumpley, inthisstyle, Emily Care, bluegargantua, nikola, Jake Norwood, Jonathan Walton.

2/12/2004 Jake Norwood: Orrin Porter Rockwell
I mentioned this guy in an earlier post, but he is SO important to what I think Vincent is trying to do here that I'm going to reiterate it with…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Emily Care.

2/13/2004 Librisia: Krista goes Dog Wild
Okay, I like Tom's idea from the "Religion in the Game" thread. Let's run with MY problems creating a character. Yeah, I know that's not exactly what this thread is…
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Participants: Librisia, lumpley, Paul Czege, bluegargantua, Jake Norwood, nikola.

2/17/2004 bluegargantua: Streamlining Character Creation
Y'know what I think is the hardest part about character creation? Figuring out your initial die pools. It's a little wonky. You have to sit there and figure out which…
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Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley.

2/19/2004 bluegargantua: Skipping Steps
Quick question: Could you go from Pride to Sin to Murder? We've got Bro Ben thinking he deserves a second wife and sleeping with Sis Abigail. Bro Fred, Sis Abigail's…
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Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley, Jake Norwood.

2/20/2004 bluegargantua: Dog Dispensation
Hey, I think we had this conversation before under the heading: "Can a Dog order a regular Faithful to violate Church Law? For example, could the Dog order the Faithful…
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Participants: bluegargantua, lumpley.

2/21/2004 Ben Lehman: Obliteration and Sins
So I have been reading Sophocles and interviews with people who were sexually abused as children, which have combined with Dogs in my head into a incestuously breeding, heavily polygamist,…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

2/21/2004 Ben Lehman: Demons and Preservation
I don't like the way that Preservation, as a demonic power, works. It seems counter-intuitive to everything else in the system, which is all about throwing extra dice down on…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

2/24/2004 Ben Lehman: Ceremonies
Okay, the Ceremonies, at present, need work. A *lot* of work. I think that the change of ceremony to Trait from Conflict is a good one, but there are some…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, bluegargantua, lumpley.

2/24/2004 Ben Lehman: Scene Entrance
So, say that Bob is over there, in some other scene across town, and he is suddenly doing something really cool that totally applies to my character and I want…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

2/25/2004 Ben Lehman: d4 traits and Fallout
More issues-- In fallout, you are given a choice from a list of options. This is Cool and Good, and needs to stay around. However, given that d4 traits only…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley, bluegargantua, nikola.

3/30/2004 ScottM: Quiet around here
Are people out playtesting this puppy, or mostly waiting for the revision? Do you want to release the DiTV rewrites in chunks, or are you trying to finish it all…
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Participants: ScottM, Emily Care, lumpley, nikola.

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