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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6606126" data-attributes="member: 2067">Yar, items in 5e are a good way to off-handle one of the party roles.Traps and caltrops work well for movement-hampering (I steer away from ball bearings, but they'd be useful, too, as is a net for any character who is proficient), oil works fine for area effects, alchemist's fire is a nice action-economy limiter, acid and poison are handy damage-spikers (as is oil in the right circumstances)....and they all combine nicely with the catapult spell....The main weakness of traps, caltrops, ball bearings, and oil is open spaces, and the fact that they take some time to set up. Which means that in the right circumstance, they're effective, but outside of it, they're not the greatest. Which is as it should be for something you can buy off-the-rack.It might be a ripe area to expand with a feat or something (a &quot;trap master&quot; feat that increases your damage, adds your prof bonus to DC's or attack rolls, maybe lets you do more with a single action with them), though, if your players really like 'em.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6606126, member: 2067"] Yar, items in 5e are a good way to off-handle one of the party roles. Traps and caltrops work well for movement-hampering (I steer away from ball bearings, but they'd be useful, too, as is a net for any character who is proficient), oil works fine for area effects, alchemist's fire is a nice action-economy limiter, acid and poison are handy damage-spikers (as is oil in the right circumstances)....and they all combine nicely with the [I]catapult[/I] spell.... The main weakness of traps, caltrops, ball bearings, and oil is open spaces, and the fact that they take some time to set up. Which means that in the right circumstance, they're effective, but outside of it, they're not the greatest. Which is as it should be for something you can buy off-the-rack. It might be a ripe area to expand with a feat or something (a "trap master" feat that increases your damage, adds your prof bonus to DC's or attack rolls, maybe lets you do more with a single action with them), though, if your players really like 'em. [/QUOTE]

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