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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • Magisterial Games

    I made a mistake. I’m still paying for it. My first foray outside trad gaming was Burning Empires, the sprawling epic space opera adaptation of The Burning Wheel that came...

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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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  • Tales of Xadia and the Limits of Canon

    We played four sessions of Tales of Xadia over the past couple months. Tales is the first complete and self-contained game to come out of Cortex Prime, the third generation...

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  • The Many Utilities of Rules

    We spend a lot of time talking about how rules work in rpgs. So let's think a bit on why we use rules at all.

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  • Characters In Transformation

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

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