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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • 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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  • Godbound, Between the Lines

    I read an interesting comment on the Club Slack this week (read to the end, there’s an announcement) about our ongoing Godbound game. It was along the lines of “I...

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  • The Tyranny of Excellence

    Storygaming thinks it's better at inclusion than it actually is. Can we do better?

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  • Godbound and Tradsplaining in the Late Twenty-Teens

    Tonight we begin Godbound, an OSR-adjacent sandbox demigod adventure game from Kevin Crawford (Sine Nomine Publishing). It’s been on my try list for several years now, but its OSR-ness sits...

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  • Goblinville is Your Next High Tech Low Tech Popcorn Game

    A few weeks ago I got the coolest little surprise in the mail: a copy of Goblinville Gazette #1. It’s the first of four ‘zines, published as part of Kickstarter’s...

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