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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • Indie Game Reading Club - Philosophy - Technique

    The Usual Suspects

    July 22, 2022 - By Paul Beakley

    Something that occurred to me just this year: having an encyclopedic knowledge of RPGs hasn’t actually made me happier. In fact it’s probably made me less happy participating in my...

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  • Indie Game Reading Club - Technique

    Worldbuilding and Built Worlds

    January 14, 2021 - By Paul Beakley

    Part 4 of ? in the Cultivating a Storytelling Mindset series My home group has been playing UFO Press‘ Shattered City the past several months. It’s a setting-intensive game where...

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    Deep Dive: Impulse Drive

    May 28, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Last week I talked about how I’ve finally jumped into the deep end of the online roleplaying pool. The game we’re playing is Adrian Thoen’s Impulse Drive, a Powered by...

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    A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2016

    March 17, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    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...

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    Certain Values of Fun

    June 6, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    My current Godbound game has gotten me thinking about games that have taken measures to ensure they’re fun to facilitate. I mean…running games is its own reward, of course. I...

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