Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup can be downloaded to play offline or played online on public telnet/ssh/websocket servers, thanks to our kind volunteer server. Remember that Ashenzari does not punish uncursing equipment, nor adventuring with uncursed equipment. The tradeoff is merely certain less-boosted or un-boosted skills, and slower piety gain. So if a strategy or dungeon branch requires a swappable slot (e.g. For rings of protection from cold or fire in Depths), go ahead and leave it unbound as.

Contents.Crawl is a fun game in the grand tradition of similar games like Rogue, Hack andMoria. The objective is to travel deep into a subterranean cave complex andretrieve the Orb of Zot, guarded by many horrible and hideous creatures.If you have never played Crawl (or a similar game) before, select the tutorialfrom the starting menu. The tutorial explains the interface in five easylessons. Once you're familiar with the controls, you may want to play a fewgames using hints mode.Detailed instructions for playing Crawl follow.

To simplify this manual, weassume you're using the standard distribution and you've not changed the defaultoptions. If you don't want to read the whole manual and prefer a short summaryof the important points, review the quick-start guide file (quickstart.txt) andlearn as you play.You can also read these documents while playing Crawl by hitting '?' At the helpmenu. A list of frequently asked questions about gameplay and design can beaccessed by pressing '?Q' in the game.While Dungeon Crawl is strictly a single player game, you can interact withothers over a server. NoteHumans are a useful reference point when considering other species:they have 0 for almost all aptitudes; have no special abilities,weakness, or constraints against using certain types of equipment;move normally; and gain experience and magic resistance at a 'typical'rate.

However, you will see that they are categorized as anIntermediate species - because they are decent, but not excellent,at nearly everything, a Human may need to make use of all sorts ofgame mechanics depending on what they find in the dungeon, and knowhow to defend itself against any type of damage or attack itencounters.Species categorized as Simple work straightforwardly for players who haveless experience with Crawl's game mechanics. While many do have quirks, thesequirks tend to be passive traits that simplify gameplay, rather than challengesthat a player has to consciously work around. While all of these species dohave weaknesses of some kind, these weaknesses are simple to understand, aren'tfundamentally crippling to all members of the species, and are balanced byother strengths.

In many cases the special properties of these species allowthe player to set aside many aspects of the game while still developing astrong character. Hill Orcs (HO)Hill Orcs are Orcs from the upper world who, jealous of the riches which theircousins (the Cave Orcs) possess below the ground, descend in search of plunderand adventure.Hill Orcs are more robust than Humans. Their forte is brute-force fighting,and they are skilled at using most hand weapons (particularly axes, with whichthey are experts), though they are not particularly good at using missileweapons. Noblemen 1896 gameplay. Hill Orcs are passable users of most types of magic and areparticularly skilled with Fire.Many Orcs feel superior to all other species and beings, and they have formeda religion around that idea.

Only Orcs can worship Beogh, the Orc god. Theycan join Beogh even without an altar whenever an orc priest is in sight. Minotaurs (Mi)The Minotaurs are yet another species of hybrids - Human bodies with bovineheads. They delve into the Dungeon because of their instinctive love oftwisting passageways.Minotaurs are extremely good at all forms of physical combat, but are awful atusing any type of magic. They can wear all armour except for some headgear.When in close combat, Minotaurs tend to reflexively headbutt those who dareattack them. Merfolk (Mf)The Merfolk are a hybrid species of half-human, half-fish that typically livein the oceans and rivers, seldom venturing toward land.

However, Merfolkaren't as limited on land as some myths suggest; their tails will quicklyreform into legs once they leave the water (and, likewise, their legs willquickly reform into a tail should they ever enter water). They tend to besurprisingly nimble on land as well as in the water. Experts at swimming,they need not fear drowning and move very quickly through water.The Merfolk have developed their martial arts strongly on thrusting andgrappling, since those are the most efficient ways to fight underwater. Theytherefore prefer polearms and short swords above all other weapons, thoughthey can also use longer swords quite well.As spellcasters, they tend to be quite good in specific areas. Their mysticalrelationship with water makes it easier for them to use poison and ice magic,which use water occasionally as a material component.

The legendary watermagic of the Merfolk was lost in ancient times, but some of that affinitystill remains. The instability of their own morphogenic matrix has made themvery accomplished transmuters, but most other magic seems foreign to them. Gargoyles (Gr)A cross between ordinary stone gargoyles and living beings, Gargoyles arehideous humanoids with an affinity to rock. They have low health, but largeamounts of innate armour which increases further as they gain levels. Theyeventually gain the ability to fly continuously.Gargoyles' partially living form grants them immunity to poison, as well asresistance to electricity, and protection from some effects of necromancy.Their natural armour makes them strong melee fighters, and they are naturallyskilled with blunt weapons and in unarmed combat. They can also be exceptionalearth-based conjurers. Draconians (Dr)Draconians are human-dragon hybrids: humanoid in form and approximatelyhuman-sized, with wings, tails and scaly skins.

Draconians start out in animmature form with brown scales, but as they grow in power they take on avariety of colours. This happens at an early stage in their career, and thecolour is determined by chromosomes, not by behaviour.Most types of Draconians have breath weapons or special resistances. Draconianscannot wear body armour and advance very slowly in levels, but are reasonablygood at all skills other than missile weapons, and they develop naturalphysical defenses that compensate for the lack of body armour, withoutneeding to train their Armour skill at all. Still, each colour has its ownstrengths and some have complementary weaknesses, which sometimes requires abit of flexibility on the part of the player. They are good general-purposespellcasters, and typically their spellcasting aptitudes will adapt slightlywhen they gain a colour.Draconian colours are detailed below, in the subsection titled. Halflings (Ha)Halflings, who are named for being about half the size of Humans, live insmall villages.

They live simple lives and have simple interests. Sometimes aparticularly restless Halfling will leave his or her village in search ofadventure.Halflings are very small but surprisingly hardy for their size, even having aninnate resistance to mutagenic effects. They can use short blades and shieldsvery well, are passable with long blades, and excel in ranged combat withslings. They are also very stealthy and dextrous, but are poor at magic(except for charms, translocations, and air magic). They advance in levels asrapidly as Humans. Halflings cannot wield large weapons.

Trolls (Tr)Trolls are monstrous creatures with powerful claws. They have thick, knobblyskins of any colour from putrid green to mucky brown, which are covered inpatches of thick fur.They are incredibly strong, and have a lightning-fast metabolism - requiringa great deal of food to survive, but regenerating rapidly from even the mostterrible wounds. However, they are hopeless at spellcasting and learn mostskills very slowly. Ghouls (Gh)Ghouls are horrible undead creatures, slowly rotting away.

Although Ghouls cansleep in their graves for years on end, when they rise to walk among theliving, they must eat flesh to survive.

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