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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9559501" data-attributes="member: 29398">I don't think a 12th-level character can die to a 30-foot pit trap (exception: in roll-for-h.p. editions where the 12th-level character still only had 18 h.p. or fewer; but said character would never have made it to 12th level in any event).The question of whether high-level characters could or should still be threatened by relatively minor things like this is a much bigger one, and brings in questions around power curve, long-tail bell curves, and so forth.All true.  But even then, absent further information other than "It's dangerous", shouldn't one's approach err heavily on the side of caution until-unless one learns the degree of caution actually needed?Much of the reason a house fire is more dangerous to you or I than to a trained firefighter is that you and I don't have either the training (a lot of which involves safety and caution) or the equipment (which largely revolves around safety) that they do.  And even despite all that, every now and then we hear news reports of a firefighter badly hurt or even killed in the line of duty because something went wrong.</blockquote>