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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RefinedBean" data-source="post: 4486177" data-attributes="member: 55016">Well, I voted that I don't houserule and leave it as standard 4E, but I suppose on-the-spot adjudications are mini house-rules, when you get down to it.As for people disabling traps through brute force or ranged attacks, they have to describe it in a VERY cool and unique manner for it to have any grand effect.  "I'm going to shoot at the statue hurling boulders at us," is bad, but "I'm going to try to shoot an arrow into one of the gears controlling the statue; hopefully the arrowhead will jam things up," is good, I can set a higher Defense or DC if I want, and we all have fun.If a player wants to hack out of a prison with a longsword, they can make Int checks to tell that this would alert the guards, who would then stand there, laugh and point, and not feed the prisoners until they get too hungry to lift weapons.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>