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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 711366" data-attributes="member: 259">True -- but there are ways around this.  Remember that with this security system, you don't need to have particularly good locks:  you're relying on trickiness rather than clever tumblers to foil intruders.As an added level of deviousness, scratch up all the locks a little bit, so that a casual observer can't tell which lock is used and which one isn't.  A careful observer might be able to tell the difference.  It should be a difficult search check to tell the difference, though.But then, for your difficult-to-access areas, scratch up the fake lock a little bit more, and make the keys out of hard wood or something similar, so that the careful observer (who thinks she's found a way to foil the system) will open the fake, apparently-more-often-used lock first.The hinge idea is good, but the problem with it is that it only protects against the knock spell.  If the castle's lord (or whoever) has cause to fear lockpicks as well, it won't help -- and I'd guess there are more lockpicks than knock spells running around.A clever rogue might take 20 on a search check on these locks, and that should foil the trap: the rogue should be able to detect that one of the locks is doing more than just unlocking the door.  A wizard, however, won't be able to see that.Anyway, I'm glad you like the idea!Daniel</blockquote>