Dogs In The Vineyard.pdf

Dogs

the

Vineyard

A Roleplaying Game

Written by D. Vincent Baker

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Dogs in the Vineyard

GenCon ’ 05

Printed in OldStyle, Oldstyle Small Caps, and Oldstyle

Italic, old linotype fonts reproduced by the H. P.

Lovecraft Historical Society

Book Design by D. Vincent Baker and Joshua Newman

ISBN 0-9769042-0-9

Contents

i: How To Play – 5

Introduction — If You’ve Never Roleplayed Before —

What’s it like to play? — Before You Play — All This and

Platonic Too — At the First Session — From Then On

ii: A Land of Balm and Virtue – 11

Setting — The Landscape — The Faith — Towns — Food

and Fashion — Guns — The Mountain People — The

Territorial Authority — Back East — Nonbelievers

iii: Creating Characters – 21

Overview — Procedure — Background — Going

Forward — Leaving Play — GMing Character Creation

Creating Characters: Recap – 50

iv: Conflict & Resolution – 53

Overview — The Simple Case — Escalating — Using

Traits and Things — Giving — Fallout — Follow-up

Conflicts — Using Relationships — Multiple Opponents

— Helping — Using Ceremony — Demonic Influence

— GMing Conflicts

Conflict & Resolution: Recap – 78

v: Resolution in Action – 85

Split Seconds — Other Time Tricks — Bodyguards —

Ambush — Life or Death — Special Effects

vi: The Structure of the Game – 93

Character Creation — Long-term Play: Each Character’s

Service as a Dog — Short-term Play: Each Town —

Short-term Play: Between Towns — Long-term Play: At

the End of a Dog’s Service

vii: Creating Towns – 97

Pride — Injustice — Sin — Demonic Attacks — False

Doctrine — Corrupt Worship — False Priesthood —

Sorcery — Hate and Murder — Procedure

viii: Between Towns – 121

Reflection — Direction — GMing Between Towns

ix: Creating NPCs – 125

Proto-NPCs — NPCs in Play — Groups — Possessed

People — Sorcerers — Demons? — Names

Creating NPCs: Recap – 135

x: How To GM – 137

Play the town — Drive play toward conflict — Actively

reveal the town in play — Follow the players’ lead about

what’s important — Escalate, Escalate, Escalate — DO

NOT have a solution in mind — Playing God? — Some

Actual Play

xi: Design Notes – 147

Resources — Comment: Relationships vs. Traits vs. Things

— Adapting the Faith — Thanks

Rules Index – 153

i: How To Play

D ogs 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

welcomes 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 fantasy inspired by pre-statehood

Utah, the Deseret Territory, toward the middle of the 19th

century. Picture a landscape of high mountains, icy rivers

and cedar woods, falling away westward into scrublands,

deserts, buttes and swells. The summer skies are

heartbreaking blue, but the winters are long and killing.

Picture religious pioneers, fleeing persecution and

violence in the East. They’re trying to establish a society

based on faith and righteousness out in this frontier.

They’ve made the long trek westward but they’re still in

danger: their towns are small and isolated, vulnerable to

attack from without, sin and corruption within. Under

pressure, their pride becomes sin, their anger becomes

violence, their resentments become hate. Winter and the

demons howl...

You are God’s Watchdogs, holding the Faith together.

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