Do you pull the chain?

[Bullgrit]

Hypothetical scenario:

You’ve finished off your objective in this dungeon, but your mapper points out an area in the back corner of the complex that your group never checked. Going there, you find a room empty except for a pull-chain hanging from the ceiling. You search the room and find a secret door in one wall. You can’t find a way to open the door. The rogue searches the door and the chain for traps, and finds none.

Do you pull the chain?

Bullgrit

 

[crazy_cat]

Yes. After all what could possibly go wrong, what harm could it do, and what have we got to lose?

Can you guess how my Half Orc Rogue did when we visited the Tomb of Horrors?

 

[deganawida]

Yes. I am an adventurer, after all, so doing stupid stuff that you know is going to turn out bad is the name of the game.

 

[IronWolf]

Yes. Of course I would pound a piton in under the chain, secure a rope the end of the chain, run it through the piton and then string the rope through the doorway and pull it from there!

 

[amerigoV]

If I can convince someone else to pull the chain, that would be my preference.

 

[Mark Hope]

Yes. There might be treasure behind the secret door!

 

[Oryan77]

Yes. Of course I would pound a piton in under the chain, secure a rope the end of the chain, run it through the piton and then string the rope through the doorway and pull it from there!

Uh, dang, I was going to say this same thing. Only, I'd uhm, do it with more flair.

 

[ExploderWizard]

If I can convince someone else to pull the chain, that would be my preference.

Yup. Find the guy who used INT as a dump stat and exploit the hell out that.

 

[Zaran]

Hell, I think I would pull the chain even if the rogue did find a trap. My arguement being that the trap and secret door are there to protect something valuable. It would annoy me if it was there just to screw with the players.

We'd try our best to nullify the trap though. By disabling or even just tying a rope to the chain and pulling from the hallway.

 

[Scribble]

If I can convince someone else to pull the chain, that would be my preference.

Yeah... Thats what the party meatsack is for.