Hello guys, I was wondering if anyone had any sweet traps to share.
I’ve been brainstorming about traps and trap moves, but I feel like it would be nice to have a list with a few examples to spark my imagination. Thank you!
Hello guys, I was wondering if anyone had any sweet traps to share.
Hello guys, I was wondering if anyone had any sweet traps to share.
Gentleman’s Genkan :
The entrance chamber to the small treasure chamber containing some of the old religion’s treasures consists of a tiny room with solid oak doors on either side. One leads back into the temple/dungeon, another to the storeroom housing the treasure.
A small thin mat lies to one side in the room, directly under rat-tailed coat hooks. Thin sandals of a long-dead attendant to the faith sit on the rug. Scraps of cloth that were once a threadbare cloak are on the floor under one of the hooks.
A placard next to the storeroom door reads “Brother Bradius 9 : 14-15”
The trap : If BOTH doors are open at the same time (detents fall out of their recessed places in the two doorframes) a gong in the Bronzed Tower above rings, once and reverberating, even as the Mists of Mindlessness comes spraying out of both frames, poisoning those in the entrance chamber, storeroom, or hanging out near the entranceway.
Clues (aka things to spot) :
There’s a detent inside the frame, at the top of the door. It’s rounded on the end, so closing the door pushes it back up into the frame. Remember : the trap only goes off if both are lowered at the same time.
Brother Bradius wrote a tome of the faith. If the group finds or brought holy writings of the religion they could look it up : it reads “And he wore civility and decorum like a cloak, and it shielded him from the slings and daggers of his enemies.”
The inside tops of the doorframes are perforated with vent holes.
One of my favorite traps I made was in a kobold lair. Bear in mind, it’s kind of insidious and hard to get out of (kinda the point though ?). The floor that a person in the hall was standing on was actually on a hinge to where when the person stepped on it it would angle ( like so \ ) When they slid down said chute, another slab would slide over them with a hole in it about 4 inches wide, whereupon a kobold would come running and start stabbing it’s spear through said hole.