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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keith" data-source="post: 1628863" data-attributes="member: 10752">Traps have search and disable DCs.  They have CRs for XP, too.  If a character didn’t find/disable it, and triggers it- there generally aren’t saving throws for them, any more than you get a reflex save every time someone swings an axe at your character.  At that stage, you endure the results, and if you survive, you receive the XP.  Like any other encounter, I think.  If you allow a save, don’t also grant XP- it is already too easy to trigger traps that have no chance of killing a character to get XP.If , as DM, you are worried about dropping PCs down shafts and killing them, well, don’t do it.  Boots of Levitation ,while wonderful, aren’t applicable to the fall-in-the-hole scenario, as people have pointed out.Also, Bauglir is correct; the approach Ozmar describes (maybe jokingly?) is totally outside the rules, and it would really mess things up if a DM allowed either characters or monsters to do such things.Cheers</blockquote>