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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 8196869" data-attributes="member: 6801286">Few points.First of all, you don't roll to avoid the damage. You roll to see if your disarm succeeds, there by preventing it from activating.Second, it doesn't matter (generally speaking) how long you take to disarm the trap. Disarming a trap is a check to determine your skill at doing so, without triggering it. You either succeed or fail. If you fail, another attempt may not be possible, and the trap may activate. So it is not a situation where if given all of the time in the world, you automatically succeed. Failing to disarm a trap often has consequences.A DM may decide to rule it differently, since every trap is different. But most of the time, disarming a trap is an action for which the DM asks for a roll. That is, if a check is needed at all. Some actions may disable the trap with no rolls needed.But why not compare it to a jump instead? A jump also uses movement, and the height of the fall is also not a factor in determining the difficulty.</blockquote>