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The Indie Game Reading Club

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    Good Faith and RPGs

    September 18, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    Spent the past couple weeks poking at the idea of good faith in roleplaying. I have a couple other pieces I’m working on, more technical, but I wanted to start...

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    Band of Blades and What Even is Forged in the Dark?

    September 5, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    Today I offer you three short posts for the price of one. Had an interesting conversation with a prominent indie game publisher/designer recently. It came on the heels of our...

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    Band of Blades: Position/Effect Cheat Sheet

    August 27, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    After starting our Band of Blades game last week, I realized I needed to get a better explanation of the game’s core transaction into my players’ hands. So I did...

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    The Latest Diceology Episode

    August 23, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    My very good friend MadJay Brown has just put out episode 14 of his Diceology podcast. Mostly it’s me talking at great length about our ongoing Invisible Sun series here...

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    Band of Blades and Recompiling Code

    August 22, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    My current favorite metaphor for learning game rules: it’s compiling code in my brain. We started a Band of Blades campaign this week, right? It’s a Forged in the Dark...

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