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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

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    Conflict Resolution is Indie Gaming on Hard Mode

    September 3, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    We started playing Nathan Paoletta’s Imp of the Perverse last week. It’s a funky, specific horror game that evokes Edgar Allan Poe vibes in 1830s-1850s Jacksonian America. Playing the first...

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    Guest Column: The Healing Power of Playing Make Believe

    August 20, 2020 - By Erica Riddick

    The healing power of children’s laughter is undisputed. I was reminded of this on a recent opportunity to escape my quarantine, since coronavirus shut down cities across the United States....

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    Authority vs Credibility

    June 11, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Quick note up front: I wrote this as last month’s Patreon-first post, so it’s ready to be unlocked for the public this month. I’m holding off on producing new pieces...

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    What’s It All For?

    May 15, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Last week I was struck by a deep exhaustion when I realized literally every discussion topic about roleplaying I’ve read in the past six months has come from the same...

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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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