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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • Indie Game Reading Club - Reviews

    Hear Me Out: An Ode To Passion Projects

    June 29, 2023 - By Paul Beakley

    Games that make you say WTF!? I review Stillfleet, The Wildsea, The Clay That Woke, and many others.

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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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    Certain Values of Fun

    June 6, 2019 - By Paul Beakley

    My current Godbound game has gotten me thinking about games that have taken measures to ensure they’re fun to facilitate. I mean…running games is its own reward, of course. I...

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  • Indie Game Reading Club - Reviews

    What To Run Next: Summertime Blues

    July 13, 2017 - By Paul Beakley

    Wondering what to run next? Here's a list from the summer of 2017. Tons of great titles.

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  • Indie Game Reading Club - Philosophy

    Unsolved Problems

    December 31, 2016 - By Paul Beakley

    High-stakes argumentation is one of the great unsolved problems in roleplaying.

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