The Official Bad Advice Thread

[Timo Pietilä]

No, seriously, half-trolls make poor warriors. That particular advice was accurate and does not belong in this thread. The str and con and hp do not make up for lack of device skill. They make good rogues or rangers since those classes have sufficient device skills.

I'm having hard time choosing are you giving good advice or bad advice here....well, at least it is partially what this thread is about.

[PowerDiver]

My intent is sincere. I find dwarf warriors great, and half-troll warriors suck. There is some threshold half-troll warriors pass that it just too much until they get their INT way up. OTOH half-trolls make the best rogues and rangers.

So, IMO, your point about dwarves ought to have been in this thread, but your point about half-trolls belongs in a *good* advice thread. Obviously, opinions vary.

[Timo Pietilä]

My intent is sincere. I find dwarf warriors great, and half-troll warriors suck. There is some threshold half-troll warriors pass that it just too much until they get their INT way up. OTOH half-trolls make the best rogues and rangers.

So, IMO, your point about dwarves ought to have been in this thread, but your point about half-trolls belongs in a *good* advice thread. Obviously, opinions vary.

Must be diving thing then. I find H-Troll warriors one of the easiest class to play. The sheer power and HP they have makes life very easy. I do not rely on non-failproof equipment much anyway, so failure at TO rod isn't that big issue to me.

Rogues use stealth. H-Troll has worst stealth of them all, so I find them pretty bad rogues. Of course sometimes opposite advantages is better than similar advantages. That is why I liked spectre warriors in ...whatwasit...variant with mindcrafters and vampires (another good combo). Gumband?

[PowerDiver]

Rogues use stealth. H-Troll has worst stealth of them all, so I find them pretty bad rogues. Of course sometimes opposite advantages is better than similar advantages. That is why I liked spectre warriors in ...whatwasit...variant with mindcrafters and vampires (another good combo). Gumband?

I think I disagree with most people on matching race to benefits. Rogues get a dex boost, so it makes the most sense to me to play a *low* dex class when playing a rogue. If your half-trolls are dying due to low stealth, better to play a high-stealth class. Etc.

[edit] My apologies. This kind of discussion does not belong in this thread. Forgive me for starting it.

[buzzkill]

I think this thread has finally been revealed in it's true form. The very best advice available, disguised quite cleverly as a bad advice thread. Thanks a lot guys .

[Adley]

for those, who, like me, sometimes play in the countryside : it's perfectly safe to play while there's a storm outside on a non-laptop.

[grumbleguts]

When fighting an opponent who does exactly the same amount of damage per round that you can recover with a potion of Cure Serious Wounds, it is a great idea to melee until you have two hitpoints and then quaff get hit quaff get hit quaff get hit etc until you run out of potions. this way you live longer then if you didn't have the potions to begin with.

[nppangband]

If you see un-ided longsword (4d5) laying on the floor, avoid it at all costs. It is a mimic.

[Sirridan]

If you attack drolems, their poison breath doesn't do as much so it's a safe thing to do.

[chris]

Never never make a back up of your character's savefile. The game never crashes when manticores fire missiles!

[Adley]

getting more than +7 speed is actually causing an integer overflow that puts you at -n speed, where n is yourspeed-7

[Adley]

Don't bother trying to find traps : the level with a huge vault full of goodies certainly hasn't any trapdoor.

[Pete Mack]

There's a little-known exploit, that boots with +speed also give RFire, in a nod to Jack B. Nimble (with +speed boots, you can safely jump over the candlestick).

This means that high-level characters can get by with only 3 out 4 RBase. (If you have well over 800 HP, you can do without RAcid, too, since Acid damage is cut in half by useful armor, but genuinely I don't recommend doing this.)

[Adley]

The best thing for anyone is drugs... i meant, drujs

[ekolis]

If you have over 18/100 DEX, or +15 speed, you don't need to worry about trap doors, because characters with sufficient DEX or speed don't fall through trap doors immediately; they have a turn to jump off of them before they take effect. (Side note: Wile E. Coyote does have 18/100 natural DEX, but he insists on wearing his Cursed Acme Ring of +i^2 to Dexterity and -9 to Comprehension of Imaginary Numbers... that's why he seems to ALMOST make it; his DEX is just a bit short of the mark!)