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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • Indie Game Reading Club 2019: A Retrospective

    Hello and welcome, welcome. It’s been a busy year! So let’s go over it all. Please read to the end, where I announce the launch of my Patreon. 🙂 2019:...

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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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  • NewMexiCon Wrapup

    What was hot and happening in Albuquerque last week, other than the green chilies.

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  • Fiddling While Rome Burns or Drawing the Magic Circle Anew (probably both: Forbidden Lands session 4)

    Last Tuesday we played our fourth session of Forbidden Lands. My heart was — is — so heavy. But on we played. Last week I decided to go all-in on FL’s procedural...

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  • A/B Testing: The One Ring vs Forbidden Lands

    Yesterday I had an unexpected opportunity to run two similar games side by side. My friends Ralph Mazza (Ramshead Publishing, created Universalis, Blood Red Sands) and Jahmal Brown (indie con rock...

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