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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 4397312" data-attributes="member: 60886">My thought is that this is why the trap is written as an immediate interrupt and not an opportunity attack.  Because, yes, it can effectively take out a character for the encounter, and if you let it attack as an opportunity action then each dart trap can take out as many characters as it has trigger squares.  Which is pretty powerful.  If it really is an immediate action instead, each trap can basically only take out one character.Also, disabling a trigger stone is "only" DC 20, so if you really needed to unstick the cleric it shouldn't have been too hard for someone trained in Thievery.  That's the point of the trap, really; the damage is fairly small but the immobilization forces you to decide whether the Rogue should kill the kobolds first or try to disable the trap.</blockquote>