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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3098309" data-attributes="member: 114">What rules? This is purely a DM decision based upon the purpose and the situation.In most cases the person who has trapped a chest wants an easy way to open and close it without setting off the trap, and a key is the most obvious and straightforward way of doing so. It might be that a particularly paranoid person puts a trap on the lock so that if you turn the key the wrong way (the natural way) it sets off the trap, but turn it the appropriate way then it opens. Another alternative is that you have to manipulate a hidden switch on the chest before you turn the key.It might be that the chest is a decoy explosive trap to destroy the key (and the actual chest is hidden behind a lead-lined secret door!)Just put a little thought into why someone traps an object and whether they would need access to what is inside it.Cheers</blockquote>