Alternate Settings

         The following is a list of alternate settings that various people have suggested for "Dogs in the Vineyard". Most of them are compiled from a thread on the Lumpley Games forum, called "Alternative Setting Thread". First, there are five suggested settings in the core book, though the latter four are only mentioned as possibilities:

• Dogs in the Vineyard: psuedo-Mormon gunslingers in an Antebellum religious utopia of the American West
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: Early Colonial witch-hunters keeping the Massachussetts colony free from witchcraft and sorcery
• Hounds of God: Inquisitors of the Spanish Inquisition rooting out heretics any way they can
• Thugs in the Family: modern Mafia enforcers keeping the mob from destroying itself by disunity or selling out to the cops
• Untouchables in the Windy City: Eliot Ness and his gang rooting out police corruption and getting the booze off the street, with Law as Faith

Going further, there are dozens of possiblities which have been suggested and posted on in the Lumpley Games forums. Here is a list of some of them, along with links to the related threads.

• Banthas in the Vineyard
  Jedi knights solving problems in the Outer Rim while resisting the influence of the Dark Side
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=13410.0
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=14311.0
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16956.0
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18977.0
  http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=352
• Delta Green/Call of Cthulhu:
  Super-secret government agents keeping the Mythos influence from destroying mankind.
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12648.0
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16819.0
• Wolves of the North:
  Thor's Hammers in the icy wilderness of dark-ages Scandinavia
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16743.0
• Thunder in the Vineyard:
  priests of Zeus acting out the gods' vengeance in ancient Greece
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16936.0
• Samurai or Monks in the Rice Paddies:
  the Emperor's own samurai or Buddhist Monks in fuedal Japan
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=15374.0
• SS in the Valley:
  SS rooting out Judaic influence in WWII Germany. Distasteful, but probably possible.
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16895.0
• Panthers in the Concrete Jungle:
  Militant Nation of Islam or Black Panthers keeping black communities from The Man's influence
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16878.0
• Judges in the Megacity:
  The Judge Dredd setting, but I did see the thread on it.
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=13775.0
• Inquisitors of the Empire:
  Warhammer 40k Inquisitors, mentioned in this thread
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16156.0
• Fireflies in the Black:
  Firefly setting where the Dogs are a ship's crew in the Firefly setting
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16313.0
• Road Dogs on the Walk:
  Playing gang enforcers in a large prison
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=13648.0
• Lions on the Precipice:
  Playing Mountain People preserving their heritage and culture against the Faithful
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12097.0
• Regulators in the Neo-Utopia
  Dogs in a modern-day cult in the Southwestern USA, a cagey meshing of UFO and New Age cultism, Gnosticism, and Deism.
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16777.0
• Commissars in the Vineyard:
  Secret Police behind the Iron Curtain
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12790.0
• Citizens in the Revolution:
  Agents of La Terreur in the French Revolution
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16156.0
• Augurann
  A semi-post-apocalyptic setting on the planet Augurann, which has a medieval society with active gods -- but the gods recently disappeared.
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=14623.0
• Troubleshooters in the Alpha Complex:
  An adaptation of the Paranoia setting
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17126.0
• "Keepers of the Flame" or "Dogs in the Veran Marshes":
  An adaptation of the Blue Rose setting
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17158.0
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17487.0
• Hounds on the Moor:
  An adaptation of the 1920's Call of Chthulu setting.
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17170.0
• Agents in The Matrix
  Some thoughts on adapting DitV to the world of hackers and AI.
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17426.0
• Vineyard of Blood:
  World of Darkness/Anne Rice Vampires keeping the Kindred in line.
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17475.0
• Fashion Experts on a Reality TV Show
  Just for the joke value, solving the fashion problems of people brought onto a reality show
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17555.0
• A Hybrid with America in the '50s
  Mixing the early Mormon of default Dogs with fifties American culture. This includes a detailed background for a more global/neutral Faith and a more modern setting.
  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18270.0
• Pornstars on the Soundstage
  A more extreme offshoot, where the rules are re-labelled in a number of ways, such as the attributes becoming Kink, Mouth, Body and Hands.
  http://www.i-would-knife-fight-a-man.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=47