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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Surgoshan" data-source="post: 4104698" data-attributes="member: 61205">In a thread that has utterly vanished, someone sort of made up a scenario demonstrating how a trap could be handled by the successes/failures mechanic.  It was a moving wall trap (strength check to stop for a round-ish), and the lever to stop it was behind a grating coated in contact poison (dexterity check to not touch it?  Or just constitution?).  The grating could be lifted by means of a chain (hard strength check) which went to a system of pulleys hanging from the ceiling (athletics check to get to that end).<a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drdd/20070921" target="_blank">A designer</a> states that a trap or "environmental hazard" would be equivalent to a mob and could replace one in a fight, and you could increase the number of hazards, decreasing the number of mobs.  To that end, you could make a death trap of a room with a number of traps, completely eliminating monsters.So four PCs wander into a room, the door slams shut, the ceiling starts to fall, a poisonous gas starts filling it from the bottom up, darts start randomly firing from the walls, and a bunch of large snakes come in through grating at the bottom.  I'm guessing a defender will have to occupy the snakes while a leader starts helping the defender while buffing all, and the other two start pulling non-combat actions to try and, say, break the grating or stop the ceiling, plug the poison-spewers, and dodge the darts... or you could just try and break down the door you just came in.Or you could have a fight take place on a burning bridge.  As the bridge burns, the combat area shrinks, and there's the added hazard of falling as a spot turns from bridge to not bridge.  Once the players figure out they've got a limited amount of time, their options expand.  Now they can attack the bridge itself, to cut off/kill bad guys.  The fighter's Tide of Iron could really come in handy there.  I wonder how an Eladrin fey-step would work; is the bridge also burning in the feywild?  Does it even exist there?  The players could continue it as a combat mechanic, switch over to the success/failure system, or try both at once.Imagine fighting lizardmen in a room filling with water, knowing that they're aquatic and you're wearing 30 pounds of metal.I see a lot of options here.</blockquote>

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