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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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    In It For the Long Haul

    August 4, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    One thing this pandemic year is teaching me is the pleasure and necessity of longer-term play. Because the quality of roleplaying has, in my experience, been diminished – playing via...

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    It’s Only Kinky the First Time

    May 20, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Prior to the stay-at-home orders of the past couple months, I had never played a tabletop RPG online. I blame a combination of fear and snobbery: I already hated seeing...

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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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    50 Lessons About Roleplaying

    October 21, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    It was my 50th birthday last week, so here are 50 lessons I’ve learned about roleplaying. Some of them might be short lessons! If one of these jumps out as...

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