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The other side of that coin is the eloquent player who used CHA as their PC’s dump stat. Do you let them charm and beguile NPCs or do you limit their character to their character’s stats? Then there’s the question of the smart player with the dumb character. “Your character wouldn’t think of...

Tangent from another thread. A reoccurring theme of trap discussions (and many others, if we're being honest), is where to draw the line between player skill vs character skill. So that's what this thread is about. Where are your lines on player skill vs character skill? Everyone's different...

Is that in the wrong section? I’ve had books for this game on my shelf for decades.

You missed the point so spectacularly that it can only be intentional.

Play more. Buy less. Read more. Write more. Finish projects. Publish projects.

For the record, Ice Pirates is awesome.

Modern Mythos. Good Friends of Jackson Elias. Rol o Rollo. In Spanish.

Oh, right. I thought we’d already done this. Yep. It’s well trodden ground. https://www.enworld.org/threads/traps-agency-and-telegraphing-dangers.699242/

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.