Plausible Deathtraps

[rbingham2000]

Especially if you rig a toilet seat with them

I loved that scene from Lethal Weapon 2.

- "Texas burial"

What exactly would that be?

Are you planning on having your players' characters survive?

Only if they're resourceful enough to get the hell out in time.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

What exactly would that be?

Kill Bill II Spoiler:

Spoiler

A texas burial (or is it a Texas Funeral? Probably the latter) is simply burying someone alive is a coffin. Don't know if it's customary to leave the poor sod a flashlight

AR

 

[Asmor]

Have the BBEG construct a 100' tower in a remote place-- I'm thinking the Sahara desert-- whose only purpose is to serve as a oubliette for the BBEG's enemies. Surround the base with 10' high spikes as far out as someone could reasonably be expected to jump. Then just drop the players off on top of the tower to back in the sun for a while. Have some sunbleached bones there too.

The PCs wake up bound to the floor, ten feet away from eachother. A video begins playing and the BBEG explains that there is a button under each of their hands which, if released, will trigger an explosive. The clamps holding them down are then released and they're left to their own designs. For added fun, have something horrible playing in the background, like a CD of fingernails on a chalkboard or rap.

 

[Crass]

[*]Being locked in a casket and sent to the crematorium to be fried alive (this one was featured in one of the earlier Bond movies, IIRC, and was one of the few deathtraps 007 had to be rescued from).
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Diamonds Are Forever - one of the last of the Connery Bond movies - not including Never Say Never Again...

A modern one - have the Australian Taxation Office (or the IRS, or whoever your local government enforcers may be) audit your enemy of choice...

 

[Stormrunner]

In a small bathroom, make the window unopenable/unbreakable and reinforce the door so it can't be kicked down. Plug the toilet in some non-obvious fashion, and fill the bowl with Tide-E-Bowl or similar blue toilet cleanser (not all that unusual, especially in a public restroom). Dump a couple cans of Clorox cleanser, or a whole jug of bleach, into the tank. When the target goes to use the bathroom, lock the door behind them.
Toilet cleanser and bleach react to make chlorine gas. I had a brief RL experience with this (accidentally used a scrubbrush with one cleanser that, unknown to me, had been used with the other and not fully rinsed), and took some permanent Con damage (scar tissue in the lungs). Nasty stuff.
You might have to set the toilet near a swimming pool or the like so the smell of chlorine (from the tankfull of bleach) doesn't give it away...

 

[Crass]

From some movie that I don't remember. Force a bottle of whiskey down their throat, then send them down a icy mountain road in a car chased by henchmen.

The movie you're thinking of was probably Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest, starring Cary Grant. The henchman (Martin Landau) chased him because CG tried to escape, instead of being gentlemanly and smashing the car - dying in the process - as he should have. It also featured the infamous crop duster scene where CG was on an almost deserted road, chased by a low-flying airplane which ended up smashing into a motor vehicle... another interesting way to kill somebody in the modern world.