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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • The Misery of Precedent

    This morning I was chatting with a friend about how I actively dislike the thing in fantasy RPGs where a magic-using character’s player wants to learn a spell (in reference...

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  • Band of Blades and Recompiling Code

    My current favorite metaphor for learning game rules: it’s compiling code in my brain. We started a Band of Blades campaign this week, right? It’s a Forged in the Dark...

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  • Certain Values of Fun

    My current Godbound game has gotten me thinking about games that have taken measures to ensure they’re fun to facilitate. I mean…running games is its own reward, of course. I...

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  • Best Play Experience 2017

    I have no idea if I’ll have time to get to #12 but let’s hit #11 of the #12RPG thing.

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  • Indulgent and Tedious NewMexicon Debrief

    Indulgent and Tedious NewMexicon Debrief

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