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Dogs the
Vineyard
A Role-Playing Game
Written by D. Vincent Baker
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Dogs in the Vineyard
copyright MMIV by D. Vincent Baker
a lumpley game
Printed in OldStyle, OldStyle Small Caps, and OldStyle Italic, old
Linotype fonts reproduced by the . Lovecraft Historical Society
Layout was done using Adobe InDesign on a
Macintosh PowerBook G4 and iMac
Cover illustration copyright MMIV by Drew Baker
Typography and book design by Joshua Newman of the glyphpress
First Edition, First Printing number of 150
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Dogs the
Vineyard
Table of Contents
Introduction
1
A Land of Balm and Virtue
5
Creating Characters
11
Conflict & Resolution
33
Fallout
39
Ceremonial Fallout
46
Some Cool Applications of Conflict Resolution
52
The Structure of the Game
57
Creating Towns
61
Between Towns
79
Creating NPCs
81
How To GM
91
Design Notes
97
Thanks
100
Dogs in the Vineyard: a role-playing game Introduction
The shopkeeper from Back East? His wife isn’t really his wife.
He’s the procurer and she’s the available woman. Their marriage is a front.
Your brother’s son, your nephew, is fourteen years old. He’s been stealing
money from his father, your brother, and taking it to visit this woman.
Your brother is in a bitter rage, humiliated by his son’s thievery and
grieving his son’s lost innocence. He’s going to shoot her.
What do you do?
in
Dogs the
Vineyard
A Role-Playing Game
Introduction
Dogs in the Vineyard is about God’s Watchdogs, young men and women
called to preserve the Faithful in a hostile frontier territory. They travel
from town to isolated town, carrying mail, news, and doctrine, healing the
sick, supporting the weary, and pronouncing judgment upon the wicked.
One early playtester said what she loves about the game: a town es
you with celebration and honor, but what you’re there to do is stir up its dirt
and lay bare its sins.
The setting is a fantas