The Dolent City
thedolentcity.bsky.social
The Dolent City
@thedolentcity.bsky.social
RPG designer | play worlds | punch nazis | he/him

Blog: https://thedolentchronicle.com
How To Bake a Breadling is amazing. Good luck with conjuring a new friend for the whole family.
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Their power of judicial review is a cultural one, it’s not even enshrined in our constitution. We could get rid of them tomorrow.
October 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Curse of Chalion is a fantasy book filled with political intrigue and divine magics, inspired by the Spanish Reconquest. You follow a broken and penniless soldier as he confronts a curse and tries to protect the royals of Chalion.
September 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Some recent BS that Open AI tried to pull: www.theverge.com/news/756444/...
OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing
An OpenAI staffer apologized for the “unintentional chart crime.”
www.theverge.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It’s funny because in college it felt a lot like “Yeah I’ve built graphics engines, physics engines, algorithms for generating randomized maps and terrain, dozens of character controllers, so much linear algebra, and know C, C++, lua, python, and C# BUT I only know like 10% of what I need to know.”
July 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Vermis is System Atheistic
July 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Join b3 gang
June 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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if your game has RANDOM TABLES, its osr
if your game has PICKLISTS its a storygame
if your game has 300 PAGES OF POORLY INDEXED PARAGRAPHS, its trad
May 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
There are several Fischer games where you’re like “Wow, look at that bishop pair go” and Petrosian did some pure artistry with his exchange sacrifices. He would strangle an opponent’s entire position with one perfect Knight.
April 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
ITC Serif Gothic, my beloved
April 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM