On Sunday Nov. 1st we went to a new town in the Dogs game.

I took Tower Creek Branch from the rulebook; I liked some comments Vincent Baker made in a thread about running it and I thought it'd be fun to try as the first town with real sorcery at work.  It's the third of the example towns, on p.118 of the second edition rules.

We also had a new player ( Read more... )

Last Saturday we finished up in the town of Joshua's Peak.  You can find the first part of that here.  And the characters are here.

( Sin and justice below the cut )

Here are the three four Player Characters from the Dogs in the Vineyard game I've just started, as they stand after the first session of play:

Brother Bright (Doug Burrel)

(Strong History)

-STATS-

Acuity: 5d6
Body: 3d6
Heart: 3d6
Will: 3d6

-TRAITS-

Does not yield until beaten - 1d4
I am a Dog - 1d6
A mind forever voyaging - 3d10
In a gunfight, I'm serene - ( Read more... )

Yesterday I ran my first Dogs in the Vineyard town for my nascent gaming group (may it flourish!).  The characters can be found in this post.

( Troubled hearts and souls below the cut )

Here's the cast of characters from our VoiP game of Firefly (Dogs in the Vineyard rules). So far Aune, Moriarty and Kazimir have formed the core group, and are working out a solid relationship among themselves at the cost of only one gunshot wound, a concussion, and some bruising that will go away in time - it's been positively amicable.

THE CAPTAIN ( Read more... )

Ran a second session of Firefly a la Dogs in the Vineyard yesterday, and was hugely unhappy with the results. Admittedly it didn't help that we were all tired and/or out of sorts, but I think I made a fundamental error in my conduct of the session ( Read more... )