Crawl 0.18: Purple Reign

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lizardhunt: Feb 7, 2010; agreed ->

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.

Crawl has all of the elements of a classic roguelike, but avoids the major annoyances and monotonous requirements present in many roguelikes. 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.

Personally, I love Dungeon Crawl because it demands attention to survive, but skips or automates a lot of the boring poo poo that slows down other 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. Often times I will think I have a loving INVINCIBLE character that will breeze through the game, only to die to carelessness in the most embarrassing way. 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:

challenging and unpredictable gameplay, with an emphasis on tactical skill
meaningful decisions (no no-brainer, works-every-time-with-every-character play choices)
grinding is unnecessary
a simplified and elegant interface, with a helpful tutorial and mouse support for new players

Minor design goals:

clarity of design (playable without the need for external spoilers)
thematic consistency (no lightsaber-wielding orcs)
replayability and lasting challenge (with optional branches, multiple race/background/god choices, and optional challenges)
proper use of out-of-depth monsters

What's new in v0.18?

New God: Pakellas the Inventive!

Pakellas is a god that loves it when you pull out a rod or wand. You regen MP by killing enemies, so magic becomes less useful, but you can recharge wands and rods at any time, boost the power of your wand/rod attacks, and become a very dangerous evoker. He will gift you evokable items, rods and potions of magic to help you boost your items. Once you reach max piety, he will "Supercharge" one wand or rod, which grants it maximum charges and enchantment.

Other Notable Changes:

Abyss is less of a death sentence for low levels. Exits appear randomly upon killing enemies.
Orcish Mines shortened.
Beogh can revive fallen Orc brothers! Praise Orc Jesus!
New random artifact property: Fragile, which destroys items when unequipped.
Only Draconians and Nagas have Breath abilities.
Added the Amulet of Dismissal and Reflection.
Lots of new monsters like the Iron Giant, Dart slugs, Howler Monkeys and more.
Many monster and spell balances.
Scrolls of enchant armour & enchant weapon no longer remove curses.
Poison needles scale with Throwing skill. Less powerful at 0 throwing skill.
Removed amulets of resist mutation, stasis, warding, and corrosion. New Amulet of Harm.
Removed a number of redundant/unused wands and rods. New Wand of Acid and Iceblast.
UI and keyboard shortcut improvements.

There's tons of little changes, so read the Full 0.18 Changelog if you play often.

Why play Online?

Spectate live games and chat with the player and others! Check out this list of everyone playing right now, and click "Watch" to see their live game.
Progress and settings (rcfile) are saved.
Keep track of your victories, defeats, and all kinds of stats.
Always up-to-date, with nightly builds available to play.
~~Participate in the May 6 - 22 Tournament to show off your skill!~~
Participate in the next tournament to show off your skill!

You can play Crawl in your browser very easily. The most popular servers are:

CAO: US West
CBRO: US East
CJR: Montreal *new*
CXC: France
CUE: Germany
CPO: Australia
CSZO is dead. you can get your morgues/rcfiles here.

Other servers and instructions for joining via SSH/Telnet (with a client such as KiTTY) 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:

##crawl on Freenode - Official Dungeon Crawl IRC. You can chat, ask for help, and get up-to-date information from bots, veterans, and sometimes devs.
Crawl Wiki - A good source for general information and spoilers. Be wary of the game version displayed on each page; some will be quite outdated!
##gooncrawl on Freenode - For a goonier chat.
LearnDB - Searchable repository of Dungeon Crawl lore. Almost always up to date & accurate, but sometimes its terseness and in-jokes do it no favors.
The Tavern - Official Dungeon Crawl forum.
/r/DCSS - le reddit.

Other Stuff:

Pyke's Crawl Diary - solid crawl advice, philosophical life lessons, and much more

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 0.17: 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 03:08 on May 23, 2016

# ? Apr 28, 2016 15:37

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 02:55

tote up a bags: Jun 8, 2006; die stoats die

Are we rolling out recruitment for the tourny? I'm not gonna make a team this year but I will join one! I am bad.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 15:54

Sage Grimm: Feb 18, 2013; Let's go explorin' little dude!

Yeah, recruitment is starting up. Just hang around here and there will be teams looking for people of all skill levels.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 15:58

Shinino Kage: Sep 5, 2008

Hell with it. I'll make a team.

Lean Mean Purple-Eating Machine

1: Shinino
2: FulsomFrank
3: Static
4: MagicLamp
5:
6:

# TEAMCAPTAIN Shinino

Anyone can join, just like Floodkiller says. Play and have fun. Go for banners if you want, win if you can. I probably won't win!

Shinino Kage fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Apr 28, 2016

# ? Apr 28, 2016 15:59

Floodkiller: May 31, 2011

Rcfile is all set up for team Crawl of Duty!

code:

Crawl of Duty

1. Floodkiller
2. IronicDongz (Shard1697)
3. Wolfechu
4. jerkstoresup (jerkstore)
5. MOVIE MAJICK (wya)
6. Can of Worms (wormsofcant)

# TEAMCAPTAIN Floodkiller

Anyone can join (priority to any previous members of the SSS in any form), no skill level required; you just have to be willing to play (and die) a bunch. Playing for banners/the biggest mutation list is also acceptable.

Full up unless someone from an older version of the team wants in!

Floodkiller fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Apr 29, 2016

# ? Apr 28, 2016 16:00

lizardhunt: Feb 7, 2010; agreed ->

Floodkiller posted:

Rcfile is all set up for team Crawl of Duty!

Anyone can join (priority to any previous members of the SSS in any form), no skill level required; you just have to be willing to play (and die) a bunch. Playing for banners/the biggest mutation list is also acceptable.

I was going to make Wolf Pakellas but I'll help fill up the existing teams and join Crawl of Duty. If your old members come back I'll hop on Shinino's team.

I'm jerkstore on CBRO/CAO.

lizardhunt fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Apr 28, 2016

# ? Apr 28, 2016 16:19

chin up everything sucks: Jan 29, 2012

Finally Turned 0.18 Boys

1: FireSight
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:

# TEAMCAPTAIN FireSight

# ? Apr 28, 2016 16:43

FulsomFrank: Sep 11, 2005; Hard on for love

Shinino Kage posted:

Hell with it. I'll make a team.

Lean Mean Purple-Eating Machine

1: Shinino
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:

# TEAMCAPTAIN Shinino

Anyone can join, just like Floodkiller says. Play and have fun. Go for banners if you want, win if you can. I probably won't win!

Put me in coach

how do you add the relevant information to your online profile?

Thanks, and I'm under FulsomFrank still on webtiles
\/\/\/\/

FulsomFrank fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Apr 28, 2016

# ? Apr 28, 2016 17:21

lizardhunt: Feb 7, 2010; agreed ->

FulsomFrank posted:

Put me in coach

how do you add the relevant information to your online profile?

Click (edit rc) next to DCSS 0.18 on CAO, CBRO or wherever you play. Put # TEAMCAPTAIN Shinino at the top of the file and save it. That's it!

Also make sure the captain knows your Crawl username if it's different from SA. They need to add you to their rcfile too.

e: Much more concrete instructions below.

lizardhunt fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Apr 28, 2016

# ? Apr 28, 2016 17:28

kaschei: Oct 25, 2005

Webtiles:

Only 0.18 rc files matter!

Save it or it doesn't count!

Forum: quote the last person to sign up for the team and add yourself (with your crawl name) to the list under the next open team member. Then make sure no one has signed up between the post you quoted and your post.

Remember:

quote:

Note: clan membership lines can be added to your 0.18 rcfile on any of the public servers. If you add clan membership lines to more than one rcfile, then the rcfile on the server earliest in the list CAO, CBRO, CDO, CPO, CUE, CWZ, CXC, LLD will take precedence.

More tourney rules at the tournament page

# ? Apr 28, 2016 17:31

MOVIE MAJICK: Jan 4, 2012; by Pragmatica

Floodkiller posted:

Rcfile is all set up for team Crawl of Duty!
code:
Crawl of Duty

1. Floodkiller
2. IronicDongz (Shard1697)
3. Wolfechu
4. jerkstore
5. wya
6. 

# TEAMCAPTAIN Floodkiller
Anyone can join (priority to any previous members of the SSS in any form), no skill level required; you just have to be willing to play (and die) a bunch. Playing for banners/the biggest mutation list is also acceptable.

Add me

# ? Apr 28, 2016 17:36

Electric Lady: Mar 21, 2010; To be victorious
you must find glory
in the little things

jerkstoresup posted:

I love you so much.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:06

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

When does version 1.0 come out?

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:07

Electric Lady: Mar 21, 2010; To be victorious
you must find glory
in the little things

Once it hits 0.99 we're gonna start doing 0.991, etc. Like one's journey in the Dungeon, Crawl will never end.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:09

Womyn Capote: Jul 5, 2004

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3718266

This should be in the OP

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:13

Mortimer Knag: Nov 23, 2007

I'll just wait to last minute again then join a team. Better late than Nessos worked out pretty well last time. When's the deadline for finalizing teams?

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:20

RPATDO_LAMD: Mar 22, 2013; 🐘🪠🍆

jerkstoresup posted:

Removed a number of redundant/unused wands and rods. New Wand of Acid and Pain.

Pain?

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:23

kaschei: Oct 25, 2005

Surprisingly late!

The tourney is from 6 May to 22 May (in UTC anyway). Teams are locked at 20:00 UTC Friday 13 May, a week into the tournament. All that actually matters is your highest-priority rcfile at that moment - if you join team A, play some games, then join team B (before the rosters lock), all of your games count for team B; the system doesn't even remember you had an old team.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:25

LazyMaybe: Aug 18, 2013; oouagh

when's akrasiac putting up 0.18 so I can edit my rcfile and not do anything else yet < :mad:

DONT CARE BUTTON posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3718266

This should be in the OP

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:30

Floodkiller: May 31, 2011

I just remembered that I should keep track of how many death scarab in Spider:4 deaths there are this tournament :getin:

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:38

lizardhunt: Feb 7, 2010; agreed ->

Electric Lady posted:

I love you so much.

I'll be a good OP and provide photoshops whenever inspired.

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

Pain?

Got mixed up with the amulet of harm, fixed.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:41

heard u like girls: Mar 25, 2013

Don't think i'll be joining any teams this time, last time went terrible and i didn't improve at all. Actually i got worse at the game !
Good luck to yall tho :xd:

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:42

Arivia: Mar 17, 2011

Ugh, why did they get rid of stoneskin again?

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:54

LazyMaybe: Aug 18, 2013; oouagh

it was really annoying and bad

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:55

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

What's the best tournament strategy? Big wins? Lots of wins? Lots of banners? Speedrunning?

# ? Apr 28, 2016 18:58

Sage Grimm: Feb 18, 2013; Let's go explorin' little dude!

Die lots, sleep less.

Oh you mean score high? Lots of wins on less-used combinations and getting Nemelex choice wins. Banners are merely a secondary goal to accomplish.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 19:02

A Magical Lamp: Aug 16, 2010

I'm up for some tourney-ing, I haven't played too much for quite a while so probably best I don't go with some real tryhards but if anyone's up for some medium-to-poo poo level gameplay I'd do it.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 19:06

someone awful.: Sep 7, 2007

Fitzy Fitz posted:

What's the best tournament strategy? Big wins? Lots of wins? Lots of banners? Speedrunning?

Play weird combos and have a good time imo

# ? Apr 28, 2016 19:31

100 degrees Calcium: Jan 23, 2011

DONT CARE BUTTON posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3718266

This should be in the OP

This is the most bad I've ever felt for a fictional person since the time in High School when I read "Flowers For Algernon."

# ? Apr 28, 2016 19:45

Jeffrey of YOSPOS: Dec 22, 2005; GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

DONT CARE BUTTON posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3718266

This should be in the OP

The greatest LP ever written.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 19:46

chukamok: Jul 23, 2010

I'm up for joining a team. I'm not that good and I don't know how much I'll be playing, but I can usually get one win during a tournament. Crawl name same as here.

Seconding Frykte's LP as best ever. I just reread the whole thing.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 20:26

lizardhunt: Feb 7, 2010; agreed ->

Perhaps this is in poor taste, but, uh, yea. :haw:

# ? Apr 28, 2016 20:28

fomo sacer: Feb 14, 2007

Shinino Kage posted:

Hell with it. I'll make a team.

Lean Mean Purple-Eating Machine

1: Shinino
2: FulsomFrank
3:
4:
5:
6:

# TEAMCAPTAIN Shinino

Anyone can join, just like Floodkiller says. Play and have fun. Go for banners if you want, win if you can. I probably won't win!

I'll join this team. I play as static on cbro. I may even win a game, _{_{probably with a really long mutation list.}}

# ? Apr 28, 2016 20:51

A Magical Lamp: Aug 16, 2010

Shinino Kage posted:

Hell with it. I'll make a team.

Lean Mean Purple-Eating Machine

1: Shinino
2: FulsomFrank
3: Static
4:
5:
6:

# TEAMCAPTAIN Shinino

Anyone can join, just like Floodkiller says. Play and have fun. Go for banners if you want, win if you can. I probably won't win!

As a fellow purple-eater I connect with this team. Up for this! I might win. Maybe. MagicLamp.

A Magical Lamp fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Apr 28, 2016

# ? Apr 28, 2016 21:17

Floodkiller: May 31, 2011

jerkstoresup posted:

Perhaps this is in poor taste, but, uh, yea.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 22:16

Heteroy: Mar 13, 2004; Yam Slacker

Hm. I left behind a couple of viable trunk characters before 0.18 went live (including an effective zig raider DS). Does anyone know, are they lost?

A Magical Lamp posted:

As a fellow purple-eater I connect with this team. Up for this! I might win. Maybe. MagicLamp.

Mark me down for a spot. I'm probably good for a win or two, but I have possibly the worst wins/deaths rate of anyone who has won multiple games, not counting bots.

# ? Apr 28, 2016 23:24

Chic Trombone: Jul 25, 2010

Oh hey a new version, guess the tourney's probably the perfect time to get back into Crawl

# ? Apr 28, 2016 23:33

Tollymain: Jul 9, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

anybody done the flying people purple eater joke yet

# ? Apr 29, 2016 00:33

resistentialism: Aug 13, 2007

Heteroy posted:

Hm. I left behind a couple of viable trunk characters before 0.18 went live (including an effective zig raider DS). Does anyone know, are they lost?
Mark me down for a spot. I'm probably good for a win or two, but I have possibly the worst wins/deaths rate of anyone who has won multiple games, not counting bots.

They'll probably be updated in horrible ways!

# ? Apr 29, 2016 00:39

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 02:55

Shinino Kage: Sep 5, 2008

Tollymain posted:

anybody done the flying people purple eater joke yet

That was my other idea for a team name.

# ? Apr 29, 2016 00:41

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