I really should think up a title

As for the fantasy recommendation in the tags, I haven't played the sequel yet but Endless Legend 1 is amazing. I might recommend Age of Wonders 4 over it, depending on what you want from a game: Endless Legend has slightly better gameplay with more interesting base factions, but AoW 4 has a really fun fantasy faction creator with a wide variety of options, both at start up but also as you research spells and other tech. Whichever sounds better to you, you're probably right.

And endless 2 has a fantastic system where more and more of the map is unlocked in segments

As for the fantasy recommendation in the tags, I haven't played the sequel yet but Endless Legend 1 is amazing. I might recommend Age of Wonders 4 over it, depending on what you want from a game: Endless Legend has slightly better gameplay with more interesting base factions, but AoW 4 has a really fun fantasy faction creator with a wide variety of options, both at start up but also as you research spells and other tech. Whichever sounds better to you, you're probably right.

Una Chin-Riley sings the classic Klingon Power Ballad

Una Chin-Riley sings the classic Klingon Power Ballad

Because that hook is an obsession of writers, writing advicemongers, editors, and publishers, but I'm not actually sure readers are that intolerant of a slow burn?

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.

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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.