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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6221144" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Other notorious traps so far:</p><p></p><p>Party is investigating the tomb of a Wind Knight of Aaqa. The can see that the only exit from the room is across a narrow balance beam over a spiked pit. As the rogue approaches to investigate, he fails to detect a magical trap, which he activates.</p><p></p><p>The trap consists of the illusion of a beautiful butterfly, which fascinates everyone that views it. Saving versus the effect grants only temporary relief - the urge to stare at the butterfly continues, forcing repeated saves at intervals. Those fascinated are held in place, unable to do anything but persist in staring at the butterfly for a period of time that increases by an order of magnitude for each failed save. </p><p></p><p>The basic pattern of escaping the trap is avoid everyone getting fascinated to drag the fascinated individuals across the narrow bridge to the safety of the other side. Generally, this involves blinding the low will save types with improvised blindfolds of whatever type and crawling across the beam - potentially with humorous blind leading the blind skill checks. Failure to deal with this soon enough eventually would result in everyone fascinated which is potentially a TPK (with a few failed saves, you are held in place long enough to die of thirst). Despite one player realizing the first round that he could cover the heads of the party with sacks and spare cloaks to keep them from seeing the butterfly, we still nearly managed a TPK on this trap because of party confusion. The only reason they survived is the one guy whose head they covered, when he finally recovered from the effect, pulled the cloak off his head and said, "Why is there a cloak on my head? *fails save* "Butterfly..... beautiful... butter...fly."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6221144, member: 4937"] Other notorious traps so far: Party is investigating the tomb of a Wind Knight of Aaqa. The can see that the only exit from the room is across a narrow balance beam over a spiked pit. As the rogue approaches to investigate, he fails to detect a magical trap, which he activates. The trap consists of the illusion of a beautiful butterfly, which fascinates everyone that views it. Saving versus the effect grants only temporary relief - the urge to stare at the butterfly continues, forcing repeated saves at intervals. Those fascinated are held in place, unable to do anything but persist in staring at the butterfly for a period of time that increases by an order of magnitude for each failed save. The basic pattern of escaping the trap is avoid everyone getting fascinated to drag the fascinated individuals across the narrow bridge to the safety of the other side. Generally, this involves blinding the low will save types with improvised blindfolds of whatever type and crawling across the beam - potentially with humorous blind leading the blind skill checks. Failure to deal with this soon enough eventually would result in everyone fascinated which is potentially a TPK (with a few failed saves, you are held in place long enough to die of thirst). Despite one player realizing the first round that he could cover the heads of the party with sacks and spare cloaks to keep them from seeing the butterfly, we still nearly managed a TPK on this trap because of party confusion. The only reason they survived is the one guy whose head they covered, when he finally recovered from the effect, pulled the cloak off his head and said, "Why is there a cloak on my head? *fails save* "Butterfly..... beautiful... butter...fly." [/QUOTE]
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