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<blockquote data-quote="aco175" data-source="post: 9053630" data-attributes="member: 27385">All those spells show that pits and other traps were a large part of older editions.&nbsp; I feel that the feel and use of traps have gone down a lot over the years.&nbsp; Now we tend to have Perception checks to notice, and sometimes a save to grab onto the edge of a pit before falling into a pit.&nbsp; I tend to use them now for adding to an encounter or to foreshadow another trap or pit coming up later.&nbsp; I do not want to go back to the slow crawl of searching every 5ft square and the 'standard door opening sequence #4' using 6 checks before touching the door.&nbsp; I fend a pit trap now is good for making a PC miss a round or two of combat, or even make two PCs miss a couple rounds if one needs to help the other out.&nbsp; It is mostly a low-level problem like the article is saying though.&nbsp; I guess there could be a pit that teleports you to another plane or such, but that might be another thread about separating the party and how fun it is to sit out for a game night.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aco175, post: 9053630, member: 27385"] All those spells show that pits and other traps were a large part of older editions. I feel that the feel and use of traps have gone down a lot over the years. Now we tend to have Perception checks to notice, and sometimes a save to grab onto the edge of a pit before falling into a pit. I tend to use them now for adding to an encounter or to foreshadow another trap or pit coming up later. I do not want to go back to the slow crawl of searching every 5ft square and the 'standard door opening sequence #4' using 6 checks before touching the door. I fend a pit trap now is good for making a PC miss a round or two of combat, or even make two PCs miss a couple rounds if one needs to help the other out. It is mostly a low-level problem like the article is saying though. I guess there could be a pit that teleports you to another plane or such, but that might be another thread about separating the party and how fun it is to sit out for a game night. [/QUOTE]

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