I am moving this blog to a git-based version at todistantlands.github.io .  For your convenience, here is a link to its RSS feed . I have mi...

Some interesting conversation recently around the "nature" of the OSR. This topic waxes and wanes, and will probably never really ...

I want to talk about a long-standing tendency that's been bothering me in OSR-inflected design spaces. I'll start this off with a w...

Lately I’ve been riding the bandwagon of interest in FKR-inspired design. I’m especially intrigued by diegetic advancement . This is a conc...

I can't believe I'm even writing about ascending/descending AC. Blame Marcia , who's doing some fascinating work with the old Ch...

Ann Leckie's The Raven Tower  is a short fantasy novel told from the perspective of a demigod. Like all her other novels , it is a de...

A Preamble This post represents an intersection of a number of recent inspirations: For one, Patrick is blogging about Gormenghast , and Na...