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Hang out in our Discord server! 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 stuff that slows down similar games. New changes always have reasoning based in  Major design goals:
What's new in v0.21? New Species: Gnolls!  Gnolls are jack russell terriers of all trades, by our very own awesome friend Floodkiller! They gain levels in all abilities equally, but cannot specialize in any. This makes for a warrior that can change weapons, spell schools or fighting styles at any point in the game, but may have trouble with the highest level spells or equipment. New God: Wu Jian Council!  Enter the Wu Jian Council! This god is the brain child of our resident SteelNeuron. Worshipping the council will bless you with an ancient fighting style that weaves through enemies, bounces off walls and creates a tornado of damage. Other Notable Changes:
There's more little changes, so read the Full 0.21 Changelog if you play often.  Cool, I guess. What else is going on with Crawl?
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:
Earlier threads: Crawl 0.20: Home of the Frog Dog 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 16:57 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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first replying to say that the 'petrified heart' idea from internet kraken is a great idea no matter how it's flavored
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Jan 5, 2018 01:01
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Aren't Gnolls also the brainchild of a goon?
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Jan 5, 2018 01:02
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Zaodai posted:Aren't Gnolls also the brainchild of a goon? I think so, I just I'll do my annual one or two wins for the tournament. Add "# TEAMCAPTAIN jerkstore" to the top of your .21 rc and give me your username if you are similarly playing out of ritual at this point, and suggest a team name. edit: Floodkiller has been doing so much recently that I forgot he made the dog people. 
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Jan 5, 2018 01:08
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I'm unreasonably pleased you went with my thread title suggestion  .I think the idea of the Harp of Healing as an evocable is a cool idea, but I still like the Wand of Healing. I don't see why they have to be exclusive!
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Jan 5, 2018 01:08
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evocable items... ftw
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Jan 5, 2018 01:22
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So Zin worshippers are mutation immune?
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Jan 5, 2018 01:25
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Gooncrawl's got me interested in this again. Looking forward to see what Floodkiller ends up putting out.
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Jan 5, 2018 01:26
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euphronius posted:So Zin worshippers are mutation immune? at full piety, it seems you can only remove mutations with a potion and can't get any new ones.
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Jan 5, 2018 01:34
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Bring Back Sludge Elves
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Jan 5, 2018 01:39
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I was going to ask if this game was still on its death march to bad game hell, but it looks like someone's working on a fork to fix exactly that nice
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Jan 5, 2018 01:51
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haven't played in years but I'm legally obligated to come in and say vaal the skyforth eat the purple hail xom
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Jan 5, 2018 01:51
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Weeping Wound posted:I was going to ask if this game was still on its death march to bad game hell, but it looks like someone's working on a fork to fix exactly that Hellcrawl already fixed it. Gooncrawl is gonna fix it in an entirely different manner though
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Jan 5, 2018 01:52
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Ciaphas posted:haven't played in years but I'm legally obligated to come in and say Boy do I have bad news for you about .21!
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Jan 5, 2018 01:56
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Zaodai posted:Boy do I have bad news for you about .21! Don't ruin things for me like this! What did they dooooooo 
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Jan 5, 2018 01:59
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Ciaphas posted:Don't ruin things for me like this! What did they dooooooo well, 'eating' and 'purple' don't exactly go together anymore since the latter no longer exists
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Jan 5, 2018 02:01
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Ciaphas posted:Don't ruin things for me like this! What did they dooooooo Purple chunks are gone because... uh, the pros don't eat them? 
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Jan 5, 2018 02:01
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it was kind of the last straw leading up to the new thread title's namesake we forkin
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Jan 5, 2018 02:09
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Reposting the Crab Race idea survey. Got several bits of good feedback/ideas from others, hoping for some more.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:14
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Oh my God this truly is the worst timeline. Good luck with that fork.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:15
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jerkstoresup posted:I think so, I just I'm in for a ritual win, though I'm definitely not attempting to go all in like previous tournaments (removing the purple without something to replace it was too far). I'll play until I win a Gnoll or I'm a failed developer. Eela6 posted:I'm unreasonably pleased you went with my thread title suggestion I broke everything trying to put it back in because the wand back-end got changed since it was removed and I'm too dumb to figure it out why it keeps crashing at the moment. I know that a lot of people liked the wand though, thus the evocable. I like the flavor ideas of both of the harp and heart, so I threw together a quick poll: https://goo.gl/forms/RUgS89C5vwH2YrXW2 I'll leave this open until I get a decent sample size, since it's pretty simple to adjust a name and a quick flavor addition compared to how different pizza re-implementations would have been. E: nogic posted:Bring Back Sludge Elves Floodkiller fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Jan 5, 2018 |
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Jan 5, 2018 02:41
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I've got a team name to throw out for some willing goons, the most goonish one I can think of: gnollse.cx Clan names must contain only alphanumeric characters, underscores, and hyphens Me and devlan have formed a small team of two people who are probably not going to play (I've been loving Slay the Spire) so we decided to release this team name to the wild, hopefully someone who can drive it up to the top of the leader board.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:47
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It occurs to me that this evokable is pretty similar to an ambrosia except it's easier to end early. I don't think that's a problem though
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Jan 5, 2018 02:50
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cheetah7071 posted:It occurs to me that this evokable is pretty similar to an ambrosia except it's easier to end early. I don't think that's a problem though Ambrosia's more about the MP regen anyway, the HP regen is just a slight bonus.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:52
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not if you never use MP or if MP is just HP because you always wear guardian shield
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Jan 5, 2018 02:55
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jerkstoresup posted:I think so, I just I'm still garbage at this game but I love banners too much to not play in the tournament  I'll be on your team, username's the same.However, I want to put in my two cents for a Wand of Healing replacement: the Censer of Healing, which produces clouds of healing smoke. If you (or any monster) stand in the cloud, you get healed, and clouds break LoS as in Scroll of Fog, but obviously once you move out of the cloud, the healing stops. Similar to the proposed healing evocables, it would provide the function of emergency burst healing, but also provides a tactical downside in that anything in melee with you is also going to regain HP. The intended use case would be waiting around for a teleport to go off (or right afterward), especially if you're being murdered by torment or ranged attacks that you were not prepared for. It could even be flavored as being a censer devoted to your god, with perhaps a small boost to healing from piety. I have no idea if this would be too broken or if the coding would be too difficult, so input is welcome. I also really like the Petrified Heart idea!
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Jan 5, 2018 03:01
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Pinechild posted:I'm still garbage at this game but I love banners too much to not play in the tournament Cool, you and Floodkiller so far. Room for 3 more members. Name is currently "Bring Back Everything" but not thrilled with it if there are suggestions.
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Jan 5, 2018 03:18
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Aw eating purple chunks was fun and silly. Sad to see it go.
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Jan 5, 2018 03:29
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jerkstoresup posted:Cool, you and Floodkiller so far. Room for 3 more members. Name is currently "Bring Back Everything" but not thrilled with it if there are suggestions. worldfamousw is account
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Jan 5, 2018 03:32
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Wow cool Floodkiller, I didn't see that you made a fork, that's awesome. There's a bug in it though - it seems you have based it off the wrong crawl. For real though, I would rather have djinni back than any of those things....if I code it will you merge?
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Jan 5, 2018 05:19
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Wow cool Floodkiller, I didn't see that you made a fork, that's awesome. There's a bug in it though - it seems you have based it off the wrong crawl. If you have a functional pull request, I can put it up for the thread to vote on and merge if approved.
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Jan 5, 2018 05:24
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please bring back torpor snails
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Jan 5, 2018 05:50
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this is where i find out they were never taken out ive just never happened to see any for a long time
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Jan 5, 2018 05:51
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Torn on if I wanna play in the tourney or not. On one hand, I love banners. On the other hand, ultimately ineffectual protest!
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Jan 5, 2018 05:55
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jerkstoresup posted:Cool, you and Floodkiller so far. Room for 3 more members. Name is currently "Bring Back Everything" but not thrilled with it if there are suggestions. Mind if I join? User name is the same.
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Jan 5, 2018 06:12
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Thalamas posted:Mind if I join? User name is the same. team Bring Back Everything (still open for a better team name) # TEAMCAPTAIN jerkstore 1. Floodkiller 2. pinechild 3. worldfamousw 4. Thalamas 5. cliffracer lizardhunt fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Jan 5, 2018 |
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Jan 5, 2018 06:20
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jerkstoresup posted:Sure, one more spot available. Not looking to compete, just get some banners and try to enjoy a win or two. OK I'm grabbing this as cliffracer
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Jan 5, 2018 06:24
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Anyone have a list of some of the more offensive changes the main branch has been making? I haven't actively played in a while, but I enjoy hearing stories from my buddy who does. He recently swore off Crawl, which seemed extreme and arbitrary and kind of like something he would do. His particular hill to die on was that now you couldn't cast a weakened Sandblast without stones in your inventory therefore Earth Elementalists were completely non-viable. Perhaps there were some more consequential changes that I didn't hear about?
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Jan 5, 2018 06:34
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Here's a few things off the top of my head that I remember leading to complaints: e: I doubt this is comprehensive, but I'm trying to limit myself to things where the thread reaction was generally negative -Removing purple chunks -Removing races, Mountain Dwarf was probably the most notable of these but High Elves' removal more recently caused a fuss. -Removing a number of utility wands (heal wounds/haste/teleportation) -Removing boulder beetles -Removing amulets of resist mutation -Changing Tomb to use fixed hatches instead of staircases -Adding a rune lock to Vaults -Removing book amnesia -Shortening several branches (in a way that reduces available XP overall) -Removing/nerfing various Charms (I haven't kept up with the changes but I know there has been a lot of this over the years) e: added late, don't remember if this was uniformly a negative reaction but some people really cared -Reworking Ogres to have better magic but changing Maces/Flails aptitude to -1 -Removing Pakellas entirely FreeKillB fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Jan 5, 2018 |
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Honestly, the messing around with ogres apts is still the one that continues to bug me the most.
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