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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • Invisible Sun: The Gate

    This is the second in a series of deep dives I’m taking on Invisible Sun, Monte Cook Games’ sprawling, prestige tabletop RPG. If you want to start at the beginning,...

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  • Good Faith and RPGs

    Spent the past couple weeks poking at the idea of good faith in roleplaying. I have a couple other pieces I’m working on, more technical, but I wanted to start...

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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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  • Band of Blades: Position/Effect Cheat Sheet

    After starting our Band of Blades game last week, I realized I needed to get a better explanation of the game’s core transaction into my players’ hands. So I did...

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  • Diceology the podcast about gamers

    The Latest Diceology Episode

    My very good friend MadJay Brown has just put out episode 14 of his Diceology podcast. Mostly it’s me talking at great length about our ongoing Invisible Sun series here...

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