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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5618173" data-attributes="member: 29398">How do I adjudicate traps?First off, traps certainly exist in my game and can be found in many of the usual places - needle traps in locks, pit traps, chute traps, spears-out-of-the-wall traps, teleport traps, puff-of-nasty-smoke traps, magic traps and glyphs, etc.&nbsp; Not everything is trapped, but they're common enough to be a known hazard.If the players state their characters are searching for traps (an uncommon enough occurrence in and of itself except at doors - for some reason they always check doors) I roll some hidden dice whether a trap is in fact present or not, and tell them either that they find nothing or that they find something suspicious* about x-y-z.&nbsp; I'll go into greater descriptive detail if asked.* - sometimes, on a really badly failed roll, I'll describe something suspicious when in fact there is no trap present.The odds of success on said hidden dice roll(s) are tied to a bunch of factors - some to do with the searcher(s) and-or their methods of searching, others to do with the trap as in its type, concealment, familiarity, etc. - and said odds pretty much change every time.Sometimes, I'll even roll to see if a trap the PCs blunder into doesn't trigger when it should.&nbsp; In other words, is the trap still working when the PCs in theory set it off?&nbsp; (on more than one occasion I've had characters fail to find a trap and then fail to notice it after they had in fact set it off and it didn't work - ignorance is bliss, ain't it?)Lan-&quot;I'll stop there as I don't know how to do the spoiler-hiding thingy&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 5618173, member: 29398"] How do I adjudicate traps? First off, traps certainly exist in my game and can be found in many of the usual places - needle traps in locks, pit traps, chute traps, spears-out-of-the-wall traps, teleport traps, puff-of-nasty-smoke traps, magic traps and glyphs, etc. Not everything is trapped, but they're common enough to be a known hazard. If the players state their characters are searching for traps (an uncommon enough occurrence in and of itself except at doors - for some reason they always check doors) I roll some hidden dice whether a trap is in fact present or not, and tell them either that they find nothing or that they find something suspicious* about x-y-z. I'll go into greater descriptive detail if asked. * - sometimes, on a really badly failed roll, I'll describe something suspicious when in fact there is no trap present. The odds of success on said hidden dice roll(s) are tied to a bunch of factors - some to do with the searcher(s) and-or their methods of searching, others to do with the trap as in its type, concealment, familiarity, etc. - and said odds pretty much change every time. Sometimes, I'll even roll to see if a trap the PCs blunder into doesn't trigger when it should. In other words, is the trap still working when the PCs in theory set it off? (on more than one occasion I've had characters fail to find a trap and then fail to notice it after they had in fact set it off and it didn't work - ignorance is bliss, ain't it?) Lan-"I'll stop there as I don't know how to do the spoiler-hiding thingy"-efan [/QUOTE]

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