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*Retreating to a [[aligned priest|sanctuary]] to test your [[ring of conflict|unidentified rings]]. | *Retreating to a [[aligned priest|sanctuary]] to test your [[ring of conflict|unidentified rings]]. | ||
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*Treating [[werecreatures]] very [[Altar#Sacrificing creatures of own race|inhumanely]]. | *Treating [[werecreatures]] very [[Altar#Sacrificing creatures of own race|inhumanely]]. | ||
*Dipping for [[Excalibur]] before checking your [[experience level]]. | *Dipping for [[Excalibur]] before checking your [[experience level]]. | ||
Revision as of 04:46, 3 June 2013
- You feel that eating the little dog was a bad idea.
Many things in NetHack are a Bad Idea, although that often only becomes apparent after your demise, which may well be YASD.
A few Bad Ideas include:
- Using only the arrow keys.
- Holding keys down.
- Letting monsters hit you for no good reason.
- Genociding @.
- Blessed-genociding mind flayers as a dwarf.
- Attempting to genocide while confused.
- Casting force bolt in potion shops.
- Casting fireball in bookstores.
- Looting an exploding box in a tool shop.
- Shopping while feeling jumpy.
- Smashing open every locked door in your way.
- Pasting into the NetHack terminal without checking the clipboard.
- Quaffing from every fountain in the hope of a wish while at a low level.
- Getting on your pony right at the start of the game.
- Eating "just one more" giant or lump of royal jelly.
- Eating rotten corpses.
- Training strength by weight lifting.
- Running around while brandishing a cockatrice corpse.
- Levitating around while brandishing a cockatrice corpse.
- Groping around while blind and bare-handed.
- Leaving your wand of wishing in your main inventory, particularly before wishing for reflection.
- Putting all your wands or all your tools into your bag of holding.
- Picking up nondescript gray stones.
- Automatically picking up nondescript gray stones.
- Retreating to a sanctuary to test your unidentified rings.
- Letting an altar convert you.
- Treating werecreatures very inhumanely.
- Dipping for Excalibur before checking your experience level.
- Engraving with the wrong object.
- Teleporting the other Riders or their corpses.
- Hanging out next to a drawbridge.
- Looting bones files without pickup_burden.
- Killing a nymph with a force bolt.
- Throwing your metal daggers at a metallivore.
- Throwing your enchanted daggers at a disenchanter.
- Disconnecting from the server while you decide what to wish for.
- Eating a tin while wielding your artifact weapon in a shop.
See also
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