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So I was looking for a game that would have honest-to-god heroes in it. Dogs in the Vineyard (DitV) is this game. You are like the early Moslems or the Mormons: you have been given a revelation and must build a godly community strong enough to resist the assaults of the outer world and to spread the gospel. | So I was looking for a game that would have honest-to-god heroes in it. Dogs in the Vineyard (DitV) is this game. You are like the early Moslems or the Mormons: you have been given a revelation and must build a godly community strong enough to resist the assaults of the outer world and to spread the gospel. | ||
− | An athiest and a pragmatist, I have never had to wrestle with the burden of bringing an absolute morality into the world. It's easy to sneer at the the religious and the devout, but harder to understand their trials. Do I want to be a Jesuit, or a Samurai trying to live by the code of Bushido, or a | + | An athiest and a pragmatist, I have never had to wrestle with the burden of bringing an absolute morality into the world. It's easy to sneer at the the religious and the devout, but harder to understand their trials. Do I want to be a Jesuit, or a Samurai trying to live by the code of Bushido, or a Mafiosi trying to live up to the code? No. But I wonder what it would be like. Is there are way to stay humane while serving the Absolute? That is the question I hope to explore. |
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* Shawn wanted more opportunity to explore the setting and control player actions rather than following the referee's agenda. That's the style of gaming that I seek to encourage. | * Shawn wanted more opportunity to explore the setting and control player actions rather than following the referee's agenda. That's the style of gaming that I seek to encourage. | ||
* I want to tackle the myth of the New World. The American frontier has been depicted as a "tabula rasa" where the American people were to create a new society, free from the corruptions of old Europe. But anthropologists, pulp fiction writers, and intellectuals alike have pointed out that the Americas are not a "virgin land" but a land marked by history, some of which is pretty bloody and horrible by anyone's standards. So our community of the Faithful will have to deal with the legacies of the ancient history that preceeded them. | * I want to tackle the myth of the New World. The American frontier has been depicted as a "tabula rasa" where the American people were to create a new society, free from the corruptions of old Europe. But anthropologists, pulp fiction writers, and intellectuals alike have pointed out that the Americas are not a "virgin land" but a land marked by history, some of which is pretty bloody and horrible by anyone's standards. So our community of the Faithful will have to deal with the legacies of the ancient history that preceeded them. | ||
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