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Vineyard

A Role-Playing Game

Written by D. Vincent Baker

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Dogs in the Vineyard

a lumpley game

Printed in OldStyle, OldStyle Small Caps, and OldStyle Italic, old

Linotype fonts reproduced by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society

Layout was done using Adobe InDesign 2.0 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

Vineyard

Table of Contents

Introduction

A Land of Balm and Virtue

Creating Characters

Conflict & Resolution

Fallout

Ceremonial Fallout

Some Cool Applications of Conflict Resolution

The Structure of the Game

Creating Towns

Between Towns

Creating NPCs

How To GM

Design Notes

Thanks

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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?

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 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, in the early-mid 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.

Dogs in the Vineyard: a role-playing game

Introduction

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