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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

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    Two Great Tastes etc: Lavender Hack + Trilemma Adventures

    June 18, 2026 - By Paul Beakley

    IGRC Global Operations had gamer visitors from California recently. We knew we’d be playing something while they were here, but we never quite nailed down what it’d be. So over...

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    Returning To My Roots: BurningCon 2023

    September 30, 2023 - By Paul Beakley

    I recently attended BurningCon, a convention devoted to the games published by BWHQ in Queens, NY: The Burning Wheel, Burning Empires, Torchbearer, and Mouse Guard are the big ones. BWHQ...

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  • Indie Game Reading Club - Philosophy - Technique

    The Usual Suspects

    July 22, 2022 - By Paul Beakley

    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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    Deep Dive: Impulse Drive

    May 28, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    Last week I talked about how I’ve finally jumped into the deep end of the online roleplaying pool. The game we’re playing is Adrian Thoen’s Impulse Drive, a Powered by...

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    A Few of My Favorite (Trindie) Things

    April 2, 2020 - By Paul Beakley

    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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