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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • Facilitator Agendas

    Had an interesting thread show up the other day in one of my dark forest spaces: how do you strategize, approach, play your role as GM? I suspect every GM...

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  • Returning To My Roots: BurningCon 2023

    I recently attended BurningCon, a convention devoted to the games published by BWHQ in Queens, NY: The Burning Wheel, Burning Empires, Torchbearer, and Mouse Guard are the big ones. BWHQ...

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  • Actual Play: a|state (part 9 of 9)

    This is it, our grand finale. Thank you for reading! If you’ve just run into this one somehow, this is an edited version of my actual play reports of a|state...

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  • Actual Play: a|state (part 8 of 9)

    Almost there! It’ll become apparent that what I thought was going to be another long stretch of this campaign ended up with our game wrapping up pretty quick after this....

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  • Actual Play: a|state (part 7 of 9)

    This is a big one, perhaps the pivot of our entire campaign. Enjoy! If you’ve just run into this one somehow, this is an edited version of my actual play...

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