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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8024241" data-attributes="member: 18">This seems very like the sort of solution my players would tend to come up with. You're right re: these balls typically being barely able to fit in the corridor - and yeah that would mean they were easy to jam up, and easy to predictably dodge - i.e. by laying down (or in this case, ducking slightly if tall). If they were bouncing down the corridor unpredictably, that'd be a different matter.This is actually interesting because it reveals why in MMORPGs and the like, when you have boulder traps or similar, it's always multiple smaller boulders. One large boulder, if it could be avoided at all, would be utterly predictable and trivial to avoid once you knew about it (or even knew about that type of trap on general).Yeah exactly. This rock is so huge it's actually a lot less threatening than a smaller one would be. You'd almost have to intentionally get hit by it - your natural instincts would get you out of the way if it's as slow as is being discussed.Unless it's going incredibly fast, like, way more than 10ft/second, then they shouldn't need to save if the players actually say "we dodge to the side". If a player ums and ers about it, sure, an easy-ish save might be warranted, but the thing is 15' tall, so you barely even need to duck to avoid it, given it's a sphere, in a roughly square corridor, if you just move to the side, which, assuming the corridor is barely 15' wide and you're in the middle, takes under a second (just try walking 7.5'). If it's a total surprise and coming at level 30+ mph or something then a save might make sense, but 10'/second is 6.8mph.This is kind of less of a trap and more of a feature.</blockquote>

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