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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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    Mini-Reviews for August 2020: Electric Bastionland, Liminal, Vaesen

    August 27, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Here’s what I’ve been reading this month. These are (relatively) short reviews! Ideally I’ll run these at some point in the future. Are you interested in seeing a deeper dive...

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    Impulse Drive: That’s a Wrap!

    August 14, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    My home group finished our season of Impulse Drive this week. We played it entirely via Zoom, character keepers in Google Sheets, rollforyour.party for dice, and Pinterest. It was my...

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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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    Divine Favor (a BW Scenario/Campaign)

    July 29, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Running up to Dreamation 2016, I fell deep, deep down a research hole. I wanted to do an elaborate Burning Wheel scenario for the con, and gosh did I overshoot....

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