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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • Echo Sedano: Prologue

    This is the first fiction out of the Starforged game I wrote about last week. I cover my setup there. It’s an experiment! Maybe you’re not in for fiction, and...

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  • The Usual Suspects

    Something that occurred to me just this year: having an encyclopedic knowledge of RPGs hasn’t actually made me happier. In fact it’s probably made me less happy participating in my...

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  • Fellowship: Close To Great

    What is it about gamers wanting to find their Forever Game? That one game they’re always going to be happiest playing, the pinnacle against which they will compare all future...

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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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  • I’m on +1 Forward this week

    I was on the +1 Forward podcast to talk about starting a new PbtA game in any and all settings. It's a good 30 minutes, Give it a go.

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