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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5278796" data-attributes="member: 80487">Originally Posted by BryonD  But, some form of mitigation is certainly very typical.Really? Mitigation might happen? Something here is typical, all right.Now, it is pretty unlikely that anyone just barging in is not going to look at her -- which is just what the "save" is for. There is a rumor at the Keep that sets up this "trap".But of course the dashing and daring light cavalry is always in first, especially with the ladies. As the saying has it, "a hussar who is not dead by 30 is a [gold bricker]." The rest of us are thereby prepared not to get suckered when we find the treasure of Tsojcanth.Or by little grannies bearing lovely ripe apples, for that matter. Or little bedridden grannies with big eyes. Or ... but so it goes. Fantasyland is tough!Now, an evil cleric might not be above setting actual traps for intruders. That might occur to people, and most such things are a lot more final than getting petrified.Such, as, oh ... death, maybe? Would you prefer a crossbow bolt in your guts?</blockquote>