Do you pull the chain?

[El Mahdi]

Yup, that's what henchman and 10' poles are for.

 

[korjik]

pull the chain. press the big red button. transport to the coordinates inside the asteroid. Any crazy bast... I mean adventurer will do these things

 

[Zaran]

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!

A crafty trapsmith would trap the hallway since the rogue would look for traps in the room. =)

 

[Deset Gled]

It's interesting to note how differently this poll is going (so far) from as similar one from 4 years ago: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/174075-good-idea-pull-lever-dungeon.html

Also, I must make a footnote of Sejs's sig, which is always appropriate when this question is asked:

*roll* No, you don't find any traps, and in fact that big red lever over there appears to be made out of candy!

 

[Mircoles]

I'd of pulled the chain before even searching the seemingly empty room.

 

[Dausuul]

Yup, that's what henchman and 10' poles are for.

That's what summoned monsters and hirelings are for. Replacing henchmen is a pain.

 

[BrokeAndDrive]

I'd say yes, but then I'd be yankin' your chain.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

A crafty trapsmith would trap the hallway since the rogue would look for traps in the room. =)

Or the crafty trapsmith would trap the ceiling to collapse as soon as you hammer in the piton, thereby burying the person and making the door inaccessible behind a wall of rubble. Oh, and pulling the chain just opens the door for those who know or aren't paranoid adventurers trying to steal his stuff.

 

[threshel]

Yes. Of course I pull it. I want adventure. If you're not going to do stuff like pulling the chain, then just stay home and milk the cows or whatever you did before strapping on that sword...

It's interesting to note how differently this poll is going (so far) from as similar one from 4 years ago: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/174075-good-idea-pull-lever-dungeon.html

I'll just point out that the two questions are very different, i.e. I'm not sure that it's a good idea to pull the chain, in fact, I think it's probably a very bad idea, BUT - I'm going to pull that sucker, anyway.


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[jmucchiello]

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.

Wait, wait, wait, we have found our objective and we're looking for ways to lose it? No, no, no, you have your objective, get the heck out of that dungeon and continue your main quest. If it really bugs you, you can "finish" the dungeon some other time. Personally, I hope me and my party don't even know the chain exists because we would never have done the "Going there" part.