Grimtooth's Traps

[galaga88]

I know Necromancer games is putting out a new edition of this for I assume 3E, but I saw a bunch of the originals sitting at a local used bookstore for $4.95 each. Is this a good price for them? They had most of the first several volumes, and the dungeon one as well.

 

[Crothian]

It's pretty good. Personally, I always found Grimtooths a better read then anything. There were a few of the less lethal ones I've used, but mostly the idea that I used them had a much better efeect on the PCs.

 

[Henry]

If there will be a REAL 3E version, it would be worth it. If the traps are as they were in the old books, which is to say, a little on the silly side, they tend to be hard to use in more serious campaigns.

For instance a doorway that shrinks on you as youre party tries to enter at once, until you say the magic words, "spreaad ouut!" (images of the Three Stooges here.)

Or a trap that consists of a glass room that breaks in the middle, subjecting you to falling damage, glass damage, AND drowning?


While fun, they are in my opinion hard to work into a serious campaign - but for a more fancy free game, they are fantastic, and a few of the traps are serious enough to be fun and useful.

BUUUUTTT.... I've always had visions of running my Players through Grimtooth's dungeon of doom, just to see if a group of Pre-genned characters actually made it...

 

[haiiro]

At $5 a pop, I'd probably snap them up just as reading material. They're a lot of fun to peruse, and the art is often quite entertaining, but many of the ideas are pretty silly.

I don't think most of the traps would fit into a "serious" campaign, but there are some good ideas spread throughout the series.

If nothing else, grab the first one and go back for the others if you like it.

 

[Sniktch]

The original Grimtooth's Traps? For $5 each? No, don't buy them, you don't want those.

Just tell me where the store is and I'll take care of everything

 

[Tonguez]

ignore this