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Have you read and/or played Dogs in the Vineyard?

Started by arminius, December 10, 2010, 07:51:16 PM

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Aos

#15
December 10, 2010, 10:47:19 PM
Neither, nor.
You are posting in a troll thread.

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#16
December 11, 2010, 12:13:09 AM
Cursory read
Played it once
Mormons creep me out

Simlasa

#17
December 11, 2010, 12:34:11 AM
I haven't read or played it.
When I heard it was somehow about Mormons that turned me right off, having grown up in a community where they were the dominant faith.
Since then I've heard more that makes me think it would be interesting to give it a try.

Peregrin

#18
December 11, 2010, 01:39:35 AM
Own it, read it, and want to play it.
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#19
December 11, 2010, 02:46:17 AM
Same as Peregrin. I own it and have for a long time, have read it and hope to play it in early 2011.
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#20
December 11, 2010, 04:00:31 AM
I've read DitV but not played it.  

Also, for what it's worth, I don't think I've ever voiced an opinion about this game one way or the other, which is what seems the point the issues that has prompted this thread.
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#21
December 11, 2010, 05:34:59 AM
Own it, read it, played several times, and some of its ideas have found use in another games of mine. Not very fond of the mechanics, but noting too terrible.
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#22
December 11, 2010, 08:35:27 AM
Quote from: Soylent Green;425053I've read DitV but not played it.  

Also, for what it's worth, I don't think I've ever voiced an opinion about this game one way or the other, which is what seems the point the issues that has prompted this thread.

Same here.

I guess the only opinion I voiced was that I like the town construction rules, and not whether I like the whole game - or not. (For the record - I don't think it is a bad game, but it's definitely not for me, for the same reasons Elliot Wilen and John Morrow stated; especially John's "the dice mechanics interfere with the whole reason I play" resonated with me.)
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#23
December 11, 2010, 09:02:07 AM
I have read it, but have not found others to play it with.
I have also read a number of play reports and articles by the author.
Interested in trying a ship instead of a town as the setting. With different "authority" sources of course.
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#24
December 11, 2010, 09:57:01 AM
Own it and have cursorily read it. I've played once and had quite a good time. I would play again, but I'm not interested enough in the subject matter to GM it myself.
 

Esgaldil

#25
December 11, 2010, 10:33:22 AM
I've read it and listened to a hilarious RPGMP3 podcast of it being played - part of the fun of the podcast for me (living in Utah) was listening to a thoroughly British interpretation of Mormons and the Pioneer West...

The mechanics are intriguing, but I'm not sure if I would be tempted to actually run it as a game.
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danbuter

#26
December 11, 2010, 10:45:33 AM
Quote from: Soylent Green;425053Also, for what it's worth, I don't think I've ever voiced an opinion about this game one way or the other, which is what seems the point the issues that has prompted this thread.

Yeah, this thread really gives off the "I'm persecuted!" vibe. I can see it coming up again later when Elliot is talking about DitV and cries "You can't say anything bad about this game! I know you haven't read it!".
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#27
December 11, 2010, 11:08:59 AM
This is a thread about a non-RPG, so I'm moving it. For the record, I've read the game.

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#28
December 11, 2010, 11:18:02 AM
:confused:

Where did I cry anything?

If there's a whiff of persecution here it's pretty hard to point to who's being persecuted. The background is that DitV has often been criticized here, for example in the recent thread about adding some DitV-derived mechanics in D&D. That thread got notice over on story-games, leading to comments claiming that the people who criticized or rejected DitV-style mechanics probably didn't really know the game.

The idea here was to gather individual & aggregate data in response to that claim, but so far the individual part isn't working out due to botched poll construction. Again, if you vote in this poll, please assume that your vote will be public, even though it doesn't show that way right now.

arminius

#29
December 11, 2010, 11:25:12 AM
So, Pundit, can the poll be made public? I think everyone's had fair warning.
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