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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • 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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  • Critique - Culture - Indie Game Reading Club

    Cartel At The End Of 2020

    November 23, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    What an interesting, tragic, fraught time for Magpie's Cartel to finally arrive.

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  • Indie Game Reading Club - Technique

    Characters In Transformation

    November 13, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Ways to think about characterization as you cultivate a storytelling mindset for your RPGs. Part 2 of ?

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  • Culture - Indie Game Reading Club

    Hard Talk

    October 25, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Diceology’s and gaming bestie Mad Jay Brown and I did a long, tricky podcast earlier this year, sometime after our joint special guest appearance at OrcCon. Maybe it’s this year,...

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  • Indie Game Reading Club - Technique

    Vignettes

    October 21, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    We’re a couple actual-play sessions into Shattered City, UFO Press’ latest Legacy–derived game, and it’s delivering an interesting experience. Rather than blow-by-blow whaddaydo whaddayado play, each session is a vignette....

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