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The Crawl 0.20 Tournament starts on May 26th and ends on June 11th! Hang out in our Discord server while you play! https://discord.gg/3JEyRYg What is Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup? Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup is a popular, free roguelike game focusing on tactics, balance, variety and a lasting challenge. A roguelike is generally a turn-based RPG, with an emphasis on randomly generated worlds, a high depth of play, huge menageries of monsters, and some MacGuffin you have to dig up and escape with. Most roguelikes use ASCII characters for graphics, though an increasing number utilize graphical tiles, like Crawl. Roguelikes are usually very tough to beat, and death is often permanent: once you're dead, you're dead. This has all of the elements of a classic roguelike, but avoids the major annoyances and monotonous requirements present in many of them. It makes playing the game a natural experience, without "gotcha" deaths that demand an encyclopedia of knowledge. Everything you need to know to survive is present in each turn, whether it be through careful observation, making use of the resources you've collected and learned, or referring to the help by pressing "?" if you're not sure what each key does yet. Crawl is great because it demands attention to survive, but skips or automates a lot of the boring poo poo that slows down similar games. New changes always have reasoning based in fun or balance. When you die, it's usually because you overestimated your strength, took a chance, and lost. You'll learn from each death; you will die early and often. When the game smiles upon you with some really good items and luck, hubris often becomes your worst enemy. Although the game is heavily dependent on luck, victory is always possible even if you are getting the short stick at every turn. Veteran players can streak wins together with random characters. Major design goals:
What's new in v0.20? New Species: Barachim! Barachim are frog people who move slow and have a longer line of sight than other species (not necessarily a good thing). In exchange, they have the ability to hop away from/into danger at will! They are also above average at both fighting and magic based skills. Other Notable Changes:
There's tons of little changes, so read the Full 0.20 Changelog if you play often. Why play Online?
You can play Crawl in your browser very easily. The most popular servers are:
Other servers and instructions for joining via SSH/Telnet (with a client such as KiTTY or PuTTY) are available here: How to play Online. Play Offline If you prefer a lagless experience offline, you can Download Crawl for Windows, Max OSX, Linux and Android. The chats, communities and resources:
Other Stuff:
Below is a screenshot of a typical early-game experience. I am a Kobold Assassin who got a little overzealous in fighting these three very basic enemies. The adder has poisoned me while the jackal and hobgoblin did little chunks of damage quickly. I only had one unidentified potion available, so I drank it in hopes that it would heal me or cure my poison. Unfortunately, it turned me into a tree, and now I will likely die. If I had faced these enemies one at a time in these weak early stages, or ran away from them, I would have lived to see the next floor! Earlier threads: Crawl 0.19: Just Riposte (pastebin dump) Crawl 0.18: Purple Reign Crawl 0.17: Corn enemies no longer popcorn Crawl 0.16: Ru asks you to sacrifice your free time! This is a trivial butt Crawl 0.15: Terrifying, Ever-Gnashing Radulae Crawl 0.14: You feel energized by your suffering! Crawl 0.13: FoIE GrAs: You are engorged. Crawl 0.12: Erolcha banished me and gave me apocalypse crabs Crawl 0.11: Eight legs and it's not an Octopode: Welcome to Spider Crawl 0.10: Your tentacles turn into razor-sharp scythe blades Crawl 0.9: A meow rips itself from your throat Crawl 0.8: Mennas II Society Crawl 0.7: The Dying Game Crawl 0.6: Slouching towards The Abyss Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.5.0: Now with less Oklob! Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.4.0 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.3.0 I am not always playing or checking on this game week to week. Please PM me if any important info is missing/changed. lizardhunt fucked around with this message at 17:41 on May 26, 2017 |
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I, for one, am sad over the halfling hybrid nerf. Also what up with the two copies of Antaeus in the OP's pic?
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Serephina posted:I, for one, am sad over the halfling hybrid nerf. Also what up with the two copies of Antaeus in the OP's pic? Phantom Mirror! (The Drain icon in the top-right is a clue.)
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 05:57 |
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I actually save early game potions of lig for those exact situations.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 06:31 |
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There's still time to join team Nemelex' Fan Club & Casino! Or to change your mind and get out for that matter! The rules are simple: only play Nemelex' Choice characters. If a member can't take it anymore (a likely scenario, the combos tend to be abject garbage), please inform me in the thread so I can drop them from the team. No skill required! Only the house wins at Nemelex' Fan Club & Casino! I got rid of the "'don't start characters that have already been won 8 times" part of the rules. I'm not going to waste time policing it, so might as well not have the rule. If you want to play a Nemelex' Choice character without the faint hope of 75 bonus points and a spiffy pink banner, knock yourselves out! In real life preferably! membership posted:# TEAMCAPTAIN StoryTimeSA
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 06:35 |
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Scaramouche posted:I actually save early game potions of lig for those exact situations. Yeah the key is popping it pre-emptively instead of reactively
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 06:37 |
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 08:07 |
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burn the books eat the purple hail xom
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 08:11 |
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Be loud, be angry, be squishy as all hell (till you get dragon armour). Be an OGRE!quote:Legend of the Ogrefiend Also, mrwillsauce, please confirm if that is the name you will be using in webtiles. EDIT: Also, new thread so... bring back (Crown of Eternal Torment|Evaporate & Distillation|rMut|Singularity|Pakellas|a myriad of other petty things I liked) World Famous W fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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Poison Mushroom posted:
maybe in .19 thread i'll be accepted (DevlanMud)
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 12:59 |
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Serephina posted:Also what up with the two copies of Antaeus in the OP's pic? Big Lord and Punished "Curare" Antaeus.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 14:28 |
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You ought to include the Knowledge Bot in the OP.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 14:30 |
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I'm moving and have no business playing crawl this week.... Is there a team I could join to try and eek out a win anyway? I don't want anyone to suffer from my relative non-participation.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 15:09 |
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Poison Mushroom posted:
I should be good for a win this time and then a lot of frustrating 15-rune attempts. Let's do this!
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 15:34 |
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Speleothing posted:You ought to include the Knowledge Bot in the OP. Done. Again, always open to suggestions for the OP! I'll be looking through the 0.18 thread for drawings/photoshops, and I'd like to put some new screenshots up top as well.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 16:20 |
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Devlan Mud posted:maybe in .19 thread i'll be accepted (DevlanMud)
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 16:20 |
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I'm moving and have no business playing crawl this week.... Is there a team I could join to try and eek out a win anyway? I don't want anyone to suffer from my relative non-participation. Join the zero-pressure OgreTeam. I won't mind if you forget to play ogres or don't play at all. code:
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I'm moving and have no business playing crawl this week.... Is there a team I could join to try and eek out a win anyway? I don't want anyone to suffer from my relative non-participation. I'm actually in the same boat. Maybe we should start a team?
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taqueso posted:Join the zero-pressure OgreTeam. I won't mind if you forget to play ogres or don't play at all. This is as good a sales pitch as any - gonna use a new account and start fresh for the tournament. Goodpancakes posted:I'm actually in the same boat. Maybe we should start a team? Presumably you can join too? Jeffrey of YOSPOS fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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Pakellas.
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taqueso posted:Join the zero-pressure OgreTeam. I won't mind if you forget to play ogres or don't play at all. Mind if I join up, too? I made a team for myself called Playtime is OGRE, but I don't see much of a point if no one else joins it I may or may not play ogres
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Hooplah posted:Mind if I join up, too? I made a team for myself called Playtime is OGRE, but I don't see much of a point if no one else joins it Works for me.
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Poison Mushroom posted:
Aww yis, hope to live up to the disappointment.
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taqueso posted:Works for me. code:
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 17:27 |
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taqueso posted:Join the zero-pressure OgreTeam. I won't mind if you forget to play ogres or don't play at all. This is as good a reason as any to hop back into the game for a few weeks. Eager to try out Hepliaqlkana and Uskayaw.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 18:24 |
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Glidergun posted:This is as good a reason as any to hop back into the game for a few weeks. Eager to try out Hepliaqlkana and Uskayaw. If you can actually spell Hep you're ahead of the game.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 18:31 |
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I've heard rumors of people who can spell all the Crawl god names without looking them up, but that's probably just an urban legend.
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Poison Mushroom posted:I've heard rumors of people who can spell all the Crawl god names without looking them up, but that's probably just an urban legend. I can manage most of them (including Kikubaaqudgha) but Hep eludes me for some reason. I think it's the qlk.
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quote:* Removed: Haste That is...interesting. I think it's probably a good idea overall as haste is almost certainly the powerful, general-use spell in the game but... Casters have taken a lot, a lot of hits over the last 8 or so patches. My win rate with the 'traditional' caster combos has went from 40%~ in 0.13 to about 20%~% as of 0.18 and I'm guessing removing haste probably won't be a net positive on that! Part of this is that I don't play as much and I make a lot of mistakes, but part of that is that mistakes with casters are becoming increasingly lethal. I haven't played enough of 0.17 or 0.18 to have a really strong opinion from which to pull good data and anecdotes and the more I think about it, I think it might just be a product of me playing less.
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Prism posted:I can manage most of them (including Kikubaaqudgha) but Hep eludes me for some reason. I think it's the qlk. also, there isn't a qlk. (it's Hepliaklqana. hep-li-ak-l-qanal, and then remove the l at the end for reasons that will become obvious.) ki-ku-baa-qu-dg-ha - nice rhythm to this one - y-red-rem-nul, six-fir-hy, ne-qo-xec, lorocyproca... but that one's easy!
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PleasingFungus posted:also, there isn't a qlk. See, I told you I couldn't spell Hep. What's the origin of the name of the lorocyproca anyhow? I know a lot of them are just arbitrary; is that one of them?
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 19:11 |
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PleasingFungus posted:y-red-rem-nul Close, but no cigar - y-red-el-em-nul.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 19:36 |
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Running a caster and here is something I have never seen before:code:
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 19:40 |
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Prism posted:See, I told you I couldn't spell Hep. Not sure, maybe it's the same source that named neqoxecs.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 19:51 |
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Is there an open team that plans to hang around in IRC or something like Discord? I'd like to participate, but it's so much more fun if I can bitch with people live or something.
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# ? Nov 3, 2016 19:54 |
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Hopefully there will be a decent presence in ##gooncrawl this time around - I'll be cursing my 'luck' (*coughbaddecisionscough*) there. EDIT: Makhlebchat time. Which do you think makes a better base for relying on Minor Destruction until getting Invo 20 as fast as possible - DsFi or DsMo? Mo gives you the ability as soon as you find an altar, but I think the skill distribution on Fi gives you a better chance to actually survive to getting there (which with DS apts isn't necessarily a given). Ugly John fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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I'll definitely hang around #gooncrawl during the tournament.
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Ugly John posted:Hopefully there will be a decent presence in ##gooncrawl this time around - I'll be cursing my 'luck' (*coughbaddecisionscough*) there. Fi, definitely. Ds have a really rough time on the first few floors if they don't start with some kind of kit, and you'll want to use at least medium armor and a decent weapon as a makhlebite anyways. Also, Makhleb's piety is super easy to gain, and Ds have amazing invo apts, so the difference between mo and fi for when you get ranged spam online is negligible. e- actually, if all you care about is what gets you to lesser destruction easiest, I'd recommend trying venom mage. Sting and meph cloud will carry you through 95% of pre-lair threats. Exp inefficiencies aren't much of a worry, as you should be able to get those castable without pumping Cj (which is obviously pretty redundant with makhleb). Air/poison/spc are nice to have later in the game for utility and crowd control. Hooplah fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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The Teams Page is now working, and all servers appear to have 0.19 running. Make sure you're using the 0.19 rcfile for your teams! (Shard1697 and wormsofcant are currently missing from Rods out for Pakellas) Seems they're testing out things right now; the points will be reset 20 hours from now when the tourny starts.
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Where I End and Ru Begins # TEAMCAPTAIN meatpath P1: P2: P3: P4: P5: Open if anyone needs a team, no specific rules. I won't be able to play much this first weekend, but my goal is 5-10 GrFi wins at least this year.
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