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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • What’s It All For?

    Last week I was struck by a deep exhaustion when I realized literally every discussion topic about roleplaying I’ve read in the past six months has come from the same...

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  • A Few of My Favorite (Trindie) Things

    I posted the 2014 edition of my ongoing “Best of the Twenty-Teens” series recently. In it, I called 2014 “The Year of the Trindie,” which got me thinking about what...

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  • Raise a Flag

    The Character Arc advancement system, one of the more notably post-trad mechanisms of this Invisible Sun game I’m running at home, has me thinking about flags. That is, the stuff...

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  • 50 Lessons About Roleplaying

    It was my 50th birthday last week, so here are 50 lessons I’ve learned about roleplaying. Some of them might be short lessons! If one of these jumps out as...

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  • A very short post about lone wolves

    My buddy Jay and I were speculating (well, dishing, complaining, bemoaning) on the Slack today about what it is that leads a player to be a lone wolf at the...

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