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This is a list of Crawl-related websites.

Official (Stone Soup)

• Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - Official homepage, home of the latest Stone Soup development news, development wiki and bug tracker

• Tavern 2 - Official forum

• Crawl-ref-discuss (CRD) - Mailing list

• Tavern 1 (archived, no longer up)

(Pre-Stone-Soup)

• Linley's Dungeon Crawl - Official homepage of Linley's Dungeon Crawl 4.0

Discussion

• Roguelikes Discord Channel - The place to discuss Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and other Rougelikes in real-time (Active in 0.34)

• Tavern 2 - Official forum (Active in 0.34)

• r/dcss on Reddit - Subreddit focused on DCSS in particular (Active in 0.34)

• r/Roguelikes on Reddit - Subreddit focused on all roguelikes (Active in 0.34)

• #crawl - LiberaChat IRC channel. Replaces the old Freenode irc channel

• Something Awful forums thread - Formerly active Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup discussion

• Bay 12 Games Forum thread - Formerly active Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup discussion

Meta Challenges and Events

• Crawl Cosplay Community - New player training, weekly conduct challenge runs, and tournaments
• DCSS Succession Gaming - Formerly active, multiplayer runs - slated to return in late 2026

Variants

• Variants - List of variants for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

• hexcrawl - A Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup variant with a hexagonal grid

• Ax-Crawl - A variant of Linley's Dungeon Crawl

• Dungeon Crawl Alternative - A variant of Linley's Dungeon Crawl

• Wii port - Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for the Nintendo Wii

• DSCrawl - Dungeon Crawl for the Nintendo DS

Articles

• Crawl docs - online versions of all documents distributed with Crawl

• 13 Steps To Crawl - Introductory article

• Crawling Backwards, Dungeon Crawltrough - Tile-based tutorial [archive]

• Before Learning to Walk, One Must First Crawl - Roguelike column @Play on Dungeon Crawl [archive]

• Crawlapalooza Part 1, Skills and Advancement - Roguelike column @Play on Crawl's experience and skill system [archive]

• Crawlapalooza Part 2: What's With All These Skills, Anyway? - Roguelike column @Play on individual Crawl skills [archive]

• Crawlapalooza, Part 3: Beogh Liturgical School For Orcs - Roguelike column @Play on some recommended species and job combinations [archive]

• Crawlapalooza, Part 4: Travel Functions & Play Aids - Roguelike column @Play on Crawl's interface [archive]

• Sprinting Rapidly Through The Dungeon - Roguelike column @Play on the Crawl variant, Dungeon Sprint [archive]

• NethackWiki entry - NetHack wiki article on Dungeon Crawl, including a comparison with NetHack

• RogueBasin - Roguelike development wiki article, including a comparison with other roguelikes

• Wikipedia entry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, on Linley's Dungeon Crawl

• Everything2 entry - Linley's Dungeon Crawl at Everything2.com

• Home of the Underdogs review - Review of Linley's Dungeon Crawl at Home of the Underdogs

• Abandonia Reloaded review - Review of Linley's Dungeon Crawl at Abandonia Reloaded

• TvTropes article - TvTropes article on Dungeon Crawl

• spielendprogrammieren review - Review of stone soup in the spielend-programmieren Blog (in German language)

• Ubuntuusers.de - detailed installation and compile instruction for Ubuntu Linux (in German language)

• Cherrypicked bad_ideas - A condensed version of the infamous bad_ideas learndb entry from the ##crawl IRC channel

Spoilers

• The Knowledge Bot - Information based on the master branch and LearnDB

Outdated Spoilers

• E. Grasland's Spoilers - Spoilers for most gameplay mechanics (DCSS 0.5.2)

• Association for the Advancement of Dungeon Crawling - Tutorial, hints and spoilers (LDC 4.0.0b26)

• ledtim's Crawl calculator - Calculates spell power, damage from racial abilities, spell hunger, healing pacification, god abilities, wands, cards, and rods; also has an enchantment probability calculator; and probability for some HitDice-based resistances. Instructions: Red borders/letters are where you input stuff, and green border/letters are where relevant outputs are. (DCSS 0.9.2)

• igor's dungeon crawl guides - reviews of various aspects of DCSS.

Related

• Captain Pork - Some of Linley Henzell's other games [archive]

• Temple of the Roguelike - A roguelike news site and blog

• The RogueBasin Wiki - A roguelike development wiki

• Ascii Dreams - Unangband development blog, including polls for the roguelike of the year which Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup managed to win in 2008

• AnyDice - Online calculator for various dice rolls