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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

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    Fiddling While Rome Burns or Drawing the Magic Circle Anew (probably both: Forbidden Lands session 4)

    February 14, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    Last Tuesday we played our fourth session of Forbidden Lands. My heart was — is — so heavy. But on we played. Last week I decided to go all-in on FL’s procedural...

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    Push Me, Pull You

    January 30, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    Last night we ran our third session of Forbidden Lands. After hewing closely to the game’s campaign materials last session (The Hollows, a sample town in the Gamemaster’s Guide) and grinding against, well, everything...

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    A/B Testing: The One Ring vs Forbidden Lands

    January 23, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    Yesterday I had an unexpected opportunity to run two similar games side by side. My friends Ralph Mazza (Ramshead Publishing, created Universalis, Blood Red Sands) and Jahmal Brown (indie con rock...

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    Forbidden Lands: Cultural Context

    January 18, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    A couple things have been nagging me about Forbidden Lands since our first session. They are entirely tied up with the fiction, not the procedures. First: the creators went through a...

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    Forbidden Lands: Session 1

    January 16, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    The first in a series of writeups about our experiences with Forbidden Lands.

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