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<blockquote data-quote="One Horse town" data-source="post: 3971159" data-attributes="member: 58346">I would say that the poison needle trap is a bit more simple than the spears through the flagstone trap mentioned above wouldn't you?&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Terminology and design decisions aside, are you really suggesting that folk wouldn't use the simplest and cheapest forms of traps to stop interlopers *if they could*? If so, it boils down to just another iteration of the &quot;why is there a dragon in a 10 foot room in this dungeon?&quot; question that has got peoples panties in a twist before. Why engineer hideously complicated traps when a simple/cheap one would have a detrimental effect on attackers to your inner sanctum? It might not be as cool as flying globes of acid flung by mechanical arms activated by changes in air pressure, but needs must. Put it this way. I'm still having pit traps utilised by the badies as a cheap and easy way of slowing down and hurting interlopers. The Lich king might have the time and resources to create cunning engineering projects, but most folk won't. Which was the thrust of my original post.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="One Horse town, post: 3971159, member: 58346"] I would say that the poison needle trap is a bit more simple than the spears through the flagstone trap mentioned above wouldn't you? ;) Terminology and design decisions aside, are you really suggesting that folk wouldn't use the simplest and cheapest forms of traps to stop interlopers *if they could*? If so, it boils down to just another iteration of the "why is there a dragon in a 10 foot room in this dungeon?" question that has got peoples panties in a twist before. Why engineer hideously complicated traps when a simple/cheap one would have a detrimental effect on attackers to your inner sanctum? It might not be as [I]cool[/I] as flying globes of acid flung by mechanical arms activated by changes in air pressure, but needs must. Put it this way. I'm still having pit traps utilised by the badies as a cheap and easy way of slowing down and hurting interlopers. The Lich king might have the time and resources to create cunning engineering projects, but most folk won't. Which was the thrust of my original post. :cool: [/QUOTE]

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