thread: 2009-07-03 : A fun interview about Dogs in the Vineyard
On 2009-07-08, Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:
Vincent, do you think it turns out fine when the player doesn't do it as a dodge? When they aren't resistant to the game, but place resistance into their character anyway?
If it's not a dodge, it's total direct engagement. I've played Dogs like that ??? a murdered murderer who the King of Life told to get back to Earth and make right; and a Mountain Man who'd been raised in the Faith, but no one would marry; a kid who'd lied to become a Watchdog so that he'd get to carry a gun and shoot bad people like the ones in the (actually played) town he was from.
My beef with the world of Dogs is not the religious stuff and certainly not the Western stuff (that I love) but the theocratically supported violence (including the paradigm of demon-possessed, othered Mountain People that supports genocide). So my Dogs tend to highlight those issues.
