I really should think up a title

Regardless of the specifics, the resources the dungeon generates should develop your city enough to hire the tougher adventurers needed to clear the next dungeon and loot its resources. Lather and repeat until you hit a victory condition, like having enough resources to build a certain structure or adventurers powerful enough to kill a special NPC.

Anyway I don't design dungeon crawler CRPGs but I think there's some potential here for gameplay that embraces the fact that the player is unlikely to complete the dungeon on their first run and that makes this part of the gameplay. I am imagining something with roguelite elements where reaching certain objectives in the dungeon unlocks persistent upgrades for that save file that the player can make use of even when they need to replace party members. Honestly, maybe I should be designing shit like this.

So in a CRPG with a similar system, a way to incentivize the player to go through this process instead of just reloading a save could be to have each recovery event strengthen or even develop new character relationships. So for example two characters become rivals or lovers after having spent time in Orc Jail together, or a character from the old party becomes friends with a character from the new party after being recovered and resurrected, stuff like that. That way it would feel like you're getting a long-term mechanical bonus AND a little nugget of emergent narrative out of playing through these events instead of just reloading.

Alternatively, adventuring party death could affect the dungeon's ecology. Like if you get wiped by a rare monster like a bulette, suddenly the bulette encounter rates increase as adventurers become a more popular menu item for bulettes. Getting wiped by more common monsters might net rare variants of those monsters in the future. This might sound bad, except the rare monsters or tougher variants of common monsters drop equally rare crafting materials. So deliberately taking a death on the first encounter with certain monsters so you have high enough encounter rates to farm them later can become part of the meta or routing.

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I can cite the canon chapter and verse, but I have no recollection of how or why I acquired this knowledge, and that concerns me

me: hey dave, can i draw you in a maid outfit? him, dumping a pile of punk accessories on the table: on one condition

me: "...oh".

When playtesting "The Clockwork City", one of the example scenarios included in Eat God's core rulebook, a playtester pointed out that one of the randomly encountered NPCs makes reference a specific type of item for which the playset contains no worked examples. Whoops! Here are three that will appear in the next revision.

…something something nickels

But these were happy times... not for them obviously, but for the readers... SO much male gaze men material.

Alternatively, I wonder if the lack of nipples in the Tamaranean outfit is an art error? I could totally imagine an inker getting the pages of this and just assuming Dick is supposed to be in a skin tight outfit and leaving the nipples off. Only to see the coloured pages later and be like..."Whoops."

it really is just ouran high school host club and tomo chan is a girl, huh. nozaki kun is close but doesnt quite count for me bc yuu isnt the main character.

Conclusion: A real man, to Kori, is someone who is squishy and very holdable. I can respect that.

(Crossreference: Peter Parker's "Animal" crop top and short shorts)

So I’m not quite sure why it was established that Wally was some hard conservative. Maybe this was always a thing? While I’ve read a lot of Wally in the context of team books, in Titans and later in the 90s JLA run, I’ve never read much in the way of his solos. It just doesn’t strike me as consistent.

His conservative phase didn't last long but then, it was something like 1982 and Reagan was on the ascendant, so perhaps Wolfman felt a less liberal POV was an interesting way to go?

Wally's discombobulated reaction is hilarious (and one I think many people who come out get from at least one person), and it's clear Piper knows that Wally isn't being homophobic,, juts a little surprised and he'll get over it, but that doesn't mean Piper didn't LOVE being able to blow Wally's mind like that.

Honestly, the word I regret using is "diatribe". A diatribe is more of a monologue, and Wally is clearly trying to include Hartley in his little "Which supervillains are gay?" game. The fact that he doesn't take the hint that Hartley doesn't want to play this particular game is part of what makes the whole scene so fun when Hartley decides to change the script on him.