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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 8671604" data-attributes="member: 467">Sure, overdoing anything is a bad thing. See: cilantro.One thing I try to establish early if I am running a "good old fashioned dungeon crawl" is that not every surprise is bad. Sure, there are traps and mimics and nasty tricks -- but there are also healing fonts and good faeries and beneficial anomalies. Just like you can't have every family member be held hostage or murdered by the villain, or every henchman turn traitor. Otherwise you get just what you mentioned: paranoid players refusing to do ANYTHING without 30 minutes of very careful poking and prodding. That kills meaningful choice, too.</blockquote>