YAAD is quite probably one of the most common acronyms used on the
newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack, as the game itself has been in development for better than a
decade and a half; in that time, it has developed a
fan following which remains fiercely loyal, as well as laconically competing with other Roguelike games, such as Slash'em, Angband, ADOM, and more.
Many times in a game, when you die, it will be a horribly
pathetic death which could have easily been avoided if you'd been a little more
patient, or paid a little more attention to your inventory. Other times, you simply have
bad luck, such as never having gotten magic resistance when a
Lich shows up and casts a finger of death at you.
A few sample YAADS:
Failing a
system shock
Forgetting to turn off auto-pickup and netting a cursed
lodestone.
Being
poisoned by an attack.
Getting
food poisoning from a
corpse that rotted one turn after being
killed.
A
polymorph trap, a
newt, and then a newt poly'd into a rather hostile
dragon.
The ignomious death by
grid bug.
Many others
exist, of course - a few
spoilers exist which do nothing but list
ways you can die.