Traps and Concealment

[Tarril Wolfeye]

Just a simple question: Does Concealment help against (mechanical) traps that use an attack roll? Realism says no, but I couldn't find a rule in the core books.

 

[Oscar carramiñana]

The only concealment what works vs any traps are the displacement or ghostly abilities, the visual concealment doesn't work I rule but this is my opinion.
I couldn't find anything about this in core books sorry.
I hope that helps

 

[Derren]

Displacement is visual.

I don't think there is anything in the rules which says that traps don't suffer from concealment despite it beeing logical.

 

[index]

Who cares what the rules say?

Just a simple question: Does Concealment help against (mechanical) traps that use an attack roll? Realism says no, but I couldn't find a rule in the core books.

Who cares whether the rules directly address this issue? There's no enough room in a whole set of encyclopedia-size volumes to address every possible situation. Unless the trap is visually activated (very specific magical traps, or an undead skeleton pulls a cord, etc), go with the logical interpretation.

(Undead, the no-guilt enemy.)

--index

 

[Tarril Wolfeye]

Well, I know all the arguments.

But it seems that the RAW give you a 50% chance not being hit by a trap just by being invisible. It just seems strange to me that this never came up before.
@ index: yeah, but D&D tries to give you a rule for every situation, just not this one.