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The Indie Game Reading Club

Deep reads, analysis, and talk about small press roleplaying

  • E3: It’s Always Trade-Offs

    Episode Synopsis Paul and Dusey ask and answer: is player agency always sacrosanct? Should every new roleplayer start in a dungeon? Did Tolkien know how to name women and did...

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  • 2025 Inbox at the Club

    It will come as no surprise that a lot more games show up here at IGRC World HQ than we can possibly play. But they all get read! Given I...

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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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  • The Other End of the Telescope

    What happens when you get Burning Wheel's chocolate in PbtA's peanut butter.

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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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