The Official Bad Advice Thread

[Nick]

Nothing wrong with that. That's a base 80% chance of success. Add to that your 'lucky feeling', your desire to succeed, and the fact that you've had such bad luck in the past. All that certainly pushes your chances for success, or at the very least survival, well into the high 90% range. It's a no-brainier. In the end, the reward will certainly be worth the risk. You will probably be granted the exact item you were seeking. I can't tell you how many times I've acquired boots of speed following this advice.

In fact, use The Secret to guide your decisions.

[o-o]

Nothing wrong with that. That's a base 80% chance of success. Add to that your 'lucky feeling', your desire to succeed, and the fact that you've had such bad luck in the past. All that certainly pushes your chances for success, or at the very least survival, well into the high 90% range. It's a no-brainier. In the end, the reward will certainly be worth the risk. You will probably be granted the exact item you were seeking. I can't tell you how many times I've acquired boots of speed following this advice.

1 in 5, you say? With practice these odds change, so keep taking these 1 in 5 chances and you'll get there in the end.

[o-o]

Eating's cheating. If you're hungry, keep on going.

[ewert]

Wearing heavy armor increases the damage from the "engulfed in a whirlpool", because you can't swim that well in heavy armor. So if you find yourself fighting something that casts that spell on you, quickly start taking off your armor so the next time it casts that you take less damage.

[Tobias]

When you are at stat gain you can't use Fire/Ice Ball to get those orks off of your !Augment.
But luckily Raal's shows up in the BM around now. So you have 6 new spells to blast them without endangering your Potions.

[Nemesis]

If you equip a weapon and it feels "deathly cold" it means it's branded with frost! All monsters not immune to cold takes double damage!

If your @ is female, you get to see her without armour if you finish the game with low enough turncount!

[ekolis]

Hehe...

Metroid: the Roguelike... (yes, I know there was already one, thanks Slash!)

t

Take off what?
a) varia suit [40, +6] {resist fire}
b) scan visor [5, +1] {+1 to ESP vs. space pirates}
c) spazer beam (+10, +3) {confusion brand}
d) missile launcher (+1, +8) {explosive}

a

You can't do that here! There are geeks watching!

[Nemesis]

The Bronze Dragon Skull of Madness is an artifact headgear that's very, very rare but easy to recognize. Like Phial of Galadriel it's just a "Bronze Dragon Skull" before being identified. It can be activated for Aquirement and has a really quick recharge time, meaning that you'll be able to get all the other artifacts as soon as you find it! However, it also makes you blind and confused while wearing it and is heavily cursed.

As the benefits from the BDSKM are so great, don't bother uncursing it before putting it on! You can always read your *Remove Curse* scroll later.

[Therem Harth]

There's no problem taking on Ancalagon with only basic resists. High resists are for wimps!

[Nemesis]

Remember: Colbrans are those birds that go down rather easy, but stay away from Crebains, those "lightning golems" hurt when you first encounter them!

There's no problem taking on Ancalagon with only basic resists. High resists are for wimps!

Did you mean double resists (high resists are chaos, nexus, shards and the like, and when I checked Ancalagon's attacks he didn't seem to have any of those)?

[cofresi]

Warrior's are the ultimate fighting machine and can easily trade blows vs. Deathmolds with impunity. Go ahead, show that squishy mold who's boss, heh heh ...

[Derakon]

Ancalagon breathes poison, and in some variants (ToME being a notable one) he has several other nasty breaths.

[Therem Harth]

You're right though, looking back through my logs it seems most of the stuff he breathes in ToME is unresistable. (Force, disintegration, etc.) And he decided to breath all of it on me.

Anyway, suffice to say that it was a really bright idea to fight him in one of the giant vaults in Erebor, with nowhere to dig a corridor and wide open spaces where he could summon more dragons...

[Therem Harth]

And on a related note, dragons absolutely won't breath on you if you're standing right next to them. I promise.

[Zikke]

And on a related note, dragons absolutely won't breath on you if you're standing right next to them. I promise.

Or if they're running in fear. You might as well just follow them and melee them for that last blow.