Tough nut on all sides of this. Indie creators don't have the resources. Journalists don't have the resources. Bloggers are met with sneering condescension outside existing readership. Indie Game Reading Club has been as loud as one person, occasional guest writers, and a small Patreon can be. 🧵 - ThreadSky

indiegamereadingclub.com • 50 days ago

Tough nut on all sides of this.

Indie creators don't have the resources. Journalists don't have the resources. Bloggers are met with sneering condescension outside existing readership.

Indie Game Reading Club has been as loud as one person, occasional guest writers, and a small Patreon can be. 🧵

Reposted from Polygon

It’s time for independent tabletop role-playing games to get loud

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dicedeeds.bsky.social•50 days ago

I think it still boils down to what people want.

I think it's fair to say that most people will fill their time regardless with what's familiar regardless of the company burning down.

That said, our local mini ttrpg place had not a single dnd game this time around

indiegamereadingclub.com•50 days ago

After sitting with this for a while, I'm not even sure what "loud" could mean here. Just ... more reviews? They do well on our platform but it starts to feel like we're doing publishers' marketing for them. Critique is unsustainable due to play, time, experience and broad audience disinterest.

indiegamereadingclub.com•50 days ago

@rascalnews.bsky.social is doing their level best to be loud but the forces working against indie loudness are bigger than their very big hearts. Polygon's own piece (for example) points entirely at D&D content even while rah-rah'ing indies.

indiegamereadingclub.com•50 days ago

Might be that unless/until Hasbro completely shits the bed, it will continue to cast too dark and cold a shadow. And it's well established that offering a better product is not how you beat the market leader. It's not that kind of market.

indiegamereadingclub.com•50 days ago

All the free tools at our disposal -- Discord, community platforms, social media -- do help democratize reach and community building. But you know what? Thousands of tiny communities do not add up to one big one with a unifying identity.

indiegamereadingclub.com•50 days ago

I think folks have, arguably, felt it commercially and socially necessary to continue to be accepting of D&D players and the broader D&D fandom. "It's all roleplaying!" you may have heard yourself say.

I've been saying this for years, but: no.

You want loud? Unify around indie.

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