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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • Clocks: Forged in the Dark’s Underappreciated Killer App

    Apocalypse World introduced the word “clocks” to storygaming. Ye olde AW clocks were checklists of escalating narrative events. The MC could tick a slice of that clock and the event...

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  • Another Band of Blades Resource

    Tonight is our third session of Band of Blades. The Legion is headed up the Long Road and it’s gonna be awful. Just awful. 😉 Anyway, I made another resource...

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  • Band of Blades and What Even is Forged in the Dark?

    Today I offer you three short posts for the price of one. Had an interesting conversation with a prominent indie game publisher/designer recently. It came on the heels of our...

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  • #OnRampJam Takeaways

    I’ve read all 20 submissions to the #onrampjam. Everything submitted was interesting, and the spread of ideas about what roleplaying is is wild. I strongly encourage you to read the...

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  • The #onrampjam Is Over!

    We got 20 submissions to the #onrampjam and they’re all so different and interesting. I’ll be going through them all over the next few days, and I’m hoping to recruit...

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