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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 5833488" data-attributes="member: 20323">Trap-triggering-traps? You fiend! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I call this one "Toasty". It plays on the idea of trigger vs. trap, and it's best as one of the first kobold traps the PCs encounter (while kobolds still seem like comic relief).A ridiculously obvious tripwire in the middle of a hallway which receives heavy kobold traffic. It's held in tension by two counterweights (clay pots filled with flammable tar) built into narrow vertical shafts running perpendicular to the hallway. Stone blocks can be removed at the top of the hallway, revealing holes a small creature could squeeze thru (what the kobolds use for trap maintenance). Like so...<img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y141/quickleaf/stoopidadventurer.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Cutting the tripwire simply smears flammable tar all over vertical shafts, but has no apparent effect to those in the hall. Stepping over the tripwire bypasses the "trap." PCs could disable the trap by siphoning/draining the flammable tar from the urns (which are too big to fit through the holes up top, the kobolds usually hall them from below).Later...PCs can escape from another trap (or simply make a speedy ascent to the surface with loot) through some vertical shafts. If they evaded the "trap" before, good for them! A vindictive team of snickering kobolds cut the tripwire, push stone through hole, and toss torches down the shaft. Now the shaft is slick and burning. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />When/if PC emerge from the shaft, they find trio of kobolds waiting around shaft's exit with sticks (like kids around a campfire). <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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