While we are on the topic of Chris, I really enjoyed his recent career retrospective. I shared it on BlueSky, but need to get better at just posting stuff here.¹ It’s easy to look at Chris’s recent success with Mythic Bastionland and ignore the slow burn that brought him to this point. I have mentioned many times now that when Into the Odd came out I really wasn’t paying it much attention. For whatever reason Electric Bastionland captured my attention. (Likely Alec’s part play’s a big role there.) As time has moved on from the early 2010s, Into the Odd feels like it has become one of the most influential games to come out of the scene. It’s funny you can be right next to something important and just not pay it any attention, because you already have OD&D at home.

— Ramanan Sivaranjan, microblogging, November 26, 2025 [osr intotheodd bastionland ] #