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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

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    A Few of My Favorite (Trindie) Things

    April 2, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    I posted the 2014 edition of my ongoing “Best of the Twenty-Teens” series recently. In it, I called 2014 “The Year of the Trindie,” which got me thinking about what...

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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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    Band of Blades: A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

    November 7, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    We wrapped up our tenth and final session of Band of Blades this week, bringing our campaign to a close. The Legion arrived at Skydagger Keep for their final showdown...

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    Improvised Game Design

    October 24, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    While it’s true that virtually every RPG you’ll ever play will require rulings or some other human judgement, there are a few games out there that require improvised game design...

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    The Misery of Precedent

    October 17, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    This morning I was chatting with a friend about how I actively dislike the thing in fantasy RPGs where a magic-using character’s player wants to learn a spell (in reference...

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