aco175
Legend
No, that would be a Perception roll at this point.
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D&D 5E Would you require a roll for this?
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
One would have to be very low intelligence to not come up with "let's use metal to prevent the needle from jabbing skin."
Not allowing this feels adversarial.
aco175
Legend
I would never tell the player that. DMs should not tell players how to run the PC.
Leatherhead
Possibly a Idiot.
I'm in favor of anything that offers more counterplay, even if the counterplay seems kind of anti-climatic.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
I agree
1 he's already investigated and found the trap
2 he's found a way to protect himself
3 he's safely Triggering the trap (ie not a disarm)
4 he opens the lock !
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Exactly. Although, I wouldn’t frame it as a reward for being clever, so much as it’s the clear outcome of the action they declared.
In fact, encouraging this sort of play is exactly why one might want to include needle traps (and the like). The trap itself isn’t inherently interesting, but players engaging with the game by thinking about the fictional environment as a real place and describing what they want to do within it is interesting, and traps like this can facilitate that type of play. If you allow actions like this to succeed without a roll.
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Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Players decide, characters act. Whatever a character’s ability scores are, they should never prevent a player from making a decision. When the ability score is relevant to whether or not the character successfully executes the action the player decided to take, then that ability’s modifier is applied to any rolls that may be necessary.
IMO no one should ever do.this. It isn't the GM's job to say what a PC does or why. The GM could reasonably ding the character XP as a bad roleplaying penalty, but I wouldn't do that even. The thief character might be as dumb as a stump but they have proficiency in traps. There are lots of ways to explain that narratively, from being something of a savant to being book dumb but hand smart.
If you want your players to come up with smart solutions to the challenges you present, you can't punish them for doing so.
overgeeked
B/X Known World
No roll. For me, description beats rolling every time. If that described action would work, it works. No roll required.
Meech17
Adventurer
Nah. That's a solid plan. I'd just give it to them.
And then never use a poison needle trap again.
Or perhaps only as a decoy. The easily found poison needle trap is the trigger, that when set off trips a wire that runs to the statue behind the rogue. From the mouth of the statue fires a double poison needle trap, right into the rogues ass..
That'll show em.
And then never use a poison needle trap again.
Or perhaps only as a decoy. The easily found poison needle trap is the trigger, that when set off trips a wire that runs to the statue behind the rogue. From the mouth of the statue fires a double poison needle trap, right into the rogues ass..
That'll show em.
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