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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

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    Prep 2.0

    April 29, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Do you hate prepping your RPGs? I do. Well…I thought I did. Because I have many decades of play in me, I considered prep a necessary evil. Prep is necessary...

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    How to Learn A Game

    August 19, 2016 - By Paul Beakley

    When I'm learning my way through any RPG with some complexity, one of the first things I start working on is a player cheat sheet, an explainer that hopefully they can refer to without disrupting the game. It empowers the player to know their choices, and takes some load off…

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    How To Learn A Game 2

    June 24, 2016 - By Paul Beakley

    I have this unformed notion in my head of eventually documenting all my various methods of learning RPGs. One of those steps, I think, will have to be how I deal with the fundamental incompleteness of RPG rules.

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    Sandplot!

    March 8, 2016 - By Paul Beakley

    Sandplot!

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    Tenra Bansho Zero Prep

    October 20, 2015 - By Paul Beakley

    I hate prep.

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