SCOURGE, the 3D roguelike with turn based combat and a sense of humor, has hit version v.10 for Windows and Linux. The new features and changes are:

• New game logo and windowless menu
• UI themes (default to dark theme)
• Character portraits
• Simplified/improved UI (eg.: cast healing spell on char. portrait, etc.)
• Quick spell/skill buttons (icons ant tooltip) (F1-F12 shortcuts)
• Linux binary distribution via autopackage
• Improved wall transparency that works with water levels.
• Cursed items that cannot be removed w/o uncursing them first
• General/Storyline npc-s at HQ.
• Conversation engine/UI w. npc portraits
• New dungeon themes from Wadfather
• Storyline playable to level 6: npc conversation, storyline missions, balanced battle, monsters casting more spells, etc.
• More new spells: Ring of harm, Malice storm, Unholy decimator, teleportation
• Decorative gargoyles take up less screen-space.
• Oval cut-out lighting optional.
• Items/spells now have a min. depth at which they appear.
• Magic item's damage multipler select a likely monster. (ie. a level 3 item does not select a level 15 monster.)
• Uzudil (npc) "reminds" players of mission objectives on level change
• Uzudil gives mission success message (carries storyline forward).
• XP bonus on mission success, display this with success message.
• Better mission management (bugs fixed, removes old missions, etc.)
• Party / Character creator wizard
• TB combat: double click to move, single click to show path
• Cursor to change to indicate attack over creature
• Item and spell graphics (items use RLTiles)

w00t! Character creation is finally done!

Thanks, Gabor!