The other day someone in the IGRC Slack talked about getting (back) into roleplaying recently and landing in OSR territory. But now he wanted to learn more about “storygaming.” Whatever...
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Minimum Viable Game: Not The End and Others
How little game can you get away with and still have an RPG session? And what will you learn when you play?
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Conflict Resolution is Indie Gaming on Hard Mode
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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On-Ramps for Indie Hatchlings
A cold hard fact from the Indie Game Reading Club: you can explore and play ttrpgs without ever mentioning, buying, reading, or playing the most popular game. Our hobby is...
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A Decade of Indie Roleplaying: 2015
For posterity’s sake: This is the week the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. I’m torn between feeling like roleplaying is frivolous nonsense, and wanting normalcy as my country realizes this...