A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2017

Hello hello! It's another week of lockdown here at IGRC World Headquarters. I've been homeschooling my daughter, wife's working from home like most everyone I know. Oh and I finally subscribed to Zoom! So I'll be looking for opportunities to play online that fit with my full-time dad schedule. On to the series. Almost done.… Continue reading A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2017

A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2016

Howdy everyone! How's your isolation going? Today was the first day of having my daughter home, figuring out some homeschooling/unschooling strategies for the upcoming weeks. We're taking a break, so let's talk about 2016 in indie RPGs. This was the first year I couldn't track everything coming out. Kickstarter became the primary funding/marketing venue for… Continue reading A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2016

A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2015

For posterity's sake: This is the week the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. I'm torn between feeling like roleplaying is frivolous nonsense, and wanting normalcy as my country realizes this is the real deal. But! I have lots of readers who also crave normalcy, and online play is a great way to while away the… Continue reading A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2015

A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2014

Off to the races again in my ongoing review of my most impactful small-press games of the twenty-teens. The year 2014 was the Year of the Trindie for me. That is, trad games (conventional GM/player authority split, capability-driven play) with heavy indie influence (classes focused on characterization as much as capability, new ways to handle… Continue reading A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2014

Invisible Sun: A Wrap-up

In the final weeks of Google Plus, a very generous patron backed the Kickstarter for Invisible Sun’s reprint for me. I promised I’d do a deep dive of the game, and the result has been my very deepest dive. Everything I've written about Invisible Sun is tagged here. This is my final post (available in… Continue reading Invisible Sun: A Wrap-up