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It just seems silly to apply things like common sense and real world physics to things that happen in a fantasy setting. I'm sure now all of the "simulationists" will berate me. 🤷‍♂️

No no....i'm both way too lazy and not that invested in the topic. I just don't understand all the pitchforks and torches.

I agree with everything you have said since the beginning.

So how does a designer account for every eventuality? I agree with all of you that pre-written adventures are bullocks. It's always going to be up to the DM to adjust accordingly, even if the adventure is well written.

Can't you tell when people are responding positively to you....even when they say so?

It seems like most of us are agreeing with you my friend.

I'm not sure where the hostility is coming from. You don't like lame traps and neither do I.

Ok, but when you say something in public, people are going to reply. The button is even labeled "reply".

I would think we have to do it all the time because a group of engineers plays the game differently than a group of 12 year olds.

And you feel all of that should be taken into account and provided for in an adventure? I don't buy adventures so you're probably right. We play the game differently.

I've agreed with you on this more than once. Are you just looking for people to agree with you or did you want a conversation and maybe some advice or general commentary? That's the part of this that i must not be getting. Boring traps are boring and boring players are boring and boring spells...

I don't want anything. I'm interpreting what you wrote and responding to it. It's a lame trap. I agree. I think traps are lame in general. BUT.....you used it. The party responded to it with the tools they had within the rules framework as it is. DMs need to prepare not only for what the...

You knew what the trap was before the party got to it. You could have either not used the trap or replaced it with a different trap. The party was just responding to what they encountered. If you are familiar with the parties dynamics, you knew that they would have used mage hand. If it was a...

How did you want them to engage with the trap?

That would depend on the adventure, the trap and the reason for the trap in the adventure.

You aren't splitting hairs. A wise man once said: "Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. You get it? We both have layers" RPGs are complicated.

Traps were fabulous in previous editions. You spring the trap, it takes half of your HP and now you are a drag on party resources. Or you have to go back to town to heal up. Now...you spring the trap....you take 10 HP and then you whistle a tune* until you get your HP back. If the trap doesn't...

Traps always seemed very Bugs Bunny to me. If there is no real threat of danger....and i mean, "OMG, I almost died!!!"....it's really just a skill check.* *i'm also not a fan of skill checks.

If the only books ever published ever were monster books...I'd be ok with that. I miss the old monster ecologies from the magazines and wherever they else they were from.

I got 99 problems and Snarf ain't one!!! Of course i'm terrible at math and don't really understand a word he says.