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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

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    Deep Dive: A|STATE

    March 3, 2023 - By Paul Beakley

    We’re deep into a campaign of Handiwork Games’ second edition of a|state here with no signs of stopping. I was just about to leave Forged in the Dark games behind...

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    A Deep Dive into Sig: City of Blades

    June 22, 2021 - By Paul Beakley

    We go super deep into Jason Pitre's FitD love letter to Planescape.

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  • Actual Play - Indie Game Reading Club - Technique

    Deciding What To Care About

    December 3, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Part 3 of ? in the Cultivating a Storytelling Mindset series The hardest thing I ever ask of a player is to decide what they’re going to care about. Some...

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    Deep Dive: Impulse Drive

    May 28, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Last week I talked about how I’ve finally jumped into the deep end of the online roleplaying pool. The game we’re playing is Adrian Thoen’s Impulse Drive, a Powered by...

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    Raise a Flag

    January 31, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    The Character Arc advancement system, one of the more notably post-trad mechanisms of this Invisible Sun game I’m running at home, has me thinking about flags. That is, the stuff...

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