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The Indie Game Reading Club

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    Raise a Flag

    January 31, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    The Character Arc advancement system, one of the more notably post-trad mechanisms of this Invisible Sun game I’m running at home, has me thinking about flags. That is, the stuff...

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    Inside You There Are Six Wolves

    January 22, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Movie critic Roger Ebert once famously said, “It’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it.” The same thing applies to games. It’s why systems, among...

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    Invisible Sun, Session 2: A Motivation Sandbox

    January 15, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    We played our second session of Invisible Sun last night. It got me thinking about a whole stew of interconnected ideas: holding environment, buy-in, credibility, and incentives. If those things...

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    Prep never survives contact with the players

    January 8, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    This is one in a series I’ve been doing about Invisible Sun from Monte Cook Games. Click here to see everything I’ve written about the game up to now. Last...

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