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Of course. But traps don’t have to be perfect to be effective. Also not every single trap is going to be so badly made that it provides a tell. Seems to be a lot of excluded middle here: “The only possible way a trap wouldn’t have a tell is it’s perfectly made.” That’s obviously not true...

Sure. There are some circumstances where that absolutely works. Traps that are old, not well maintained, abandoned, etc. But that's not all traps. In an active lair with trap-setting monsters, there's not going to be any reasonable in-fiction reason for traps to have tells. So we're back to...

That's too bad. The money machine must be fed.

Clocks, Countdowns, and Fronts from Powered by the Apocalypse, Blades in the Dark, and Daggerheart. Such a simple and elegant idea. Removes so many convoluted subsystems and saves so much space. Mothership’s Death Saves. Absolutely brilliant take on the idea. Like so much in Mothership. When...

From a game perspective, yes, of course traps should have tells. These are games about choices. Without choices to make, traps are just time/resource sinks. From a verisimilitude perspective, no, of course traps should not have tells. Traps are placed to scare, harm, and hinder people. Giving...

Yes! Obviously! Gah! /s

I’ll have that.

Tangent from another thread. Simple question. Should traps have tells?

Whether traps have tells is an unrelated tangent. Kindly take that elsewhere. https://www.enworld.org/threads/should-traps-have-tells.716420/

That depends on everything between the idea and the release. Script, cast, director, special effects, competition, score, soundtrack, etc.

Kind of a cheeky answer, but serious all the same. Watch Taskmaster. Steal the tasks and modify them to suit.

Adding one to the OP. Cannot recommend enough the book Morbidly Curious by Coltan Scrivner, PhD. Fantastic book that goes over the science of horror. Great read for any fan of horror and could be useful for any horror referee.

LOL. Worst troll ever.

Just finished Morbidly Curious. Absolutely held up from start to finish. Utterly fascinating book. If you're even remotely interested in or curious about horror, read this book. It's a quick read. Only 272 pages in print and it took me a little more than 5 hours to read as an ebook. It just took...

There’s a solution for that. You don’t need all the complex rules mechanics to emulate physics. Let the referee decide. With a lifetime of experience most of us have a fairly well developed sense of the real world and how things work. We don’t have an intuitive sense of the maths, but we can...

What kind of balance are you after? Mechanical balance between PCs? That’s dead simple. Most rules light games have it built in. Hell, even D&D 4E managed it, mostly. Mechanical balance between the PCs and monsters? Again, dead simple. Rules light games and 4E have you covered. Spotlight...

I watched the video. Really hoping your players enjoy Dragonbane. I’m selfishly hoping for more Dragonbane content from you.

Sigh. On a long enough timeline every thread devolves into a Star Wars thread.

My first concert was the Sextasy Ball Tour with Lords of Acid and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. That was a fantastic concert.

Referees often say to players “the answer’s not on your character sheet.” A possible corollary to that for referees is “the answer’s not in the rulebook.”