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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3730309" data-attributes="member: 29014">Indeed.  I recently had a fairly involved encounter with a pit trap in one of the games I GMed for a bunch of newbie players, and they enjoyed it quite a bit.  Lacking a Rogue, the player out in front first fell into the pit, which was filled with spikes and a waist-deep water with an ooze swarm in it.  Once they dropped a rope to pull him out, they had to find a way to cross, which they did by having the dog with his excellent jump checks leap over and double back a rope in such a way that they could tie one of the characters to the middle of the rope and then as the two characters, one on either end, pulled on the rope, the middle of the rope would move across, thus ferrying everyone across without necessitating a Climb check (which probably would have failed).  Then they discovered that the kobolds who made the pit trap had one last trick up their sleeves--a makeshift wooden wall with spikes on it that the kobolds pushed down the corridor (filling up all the space in the corridor) in an attempt to push the characters back into the pit.  The group was pushed all the way to the edge, making balance checks to avoid falling in, with one guy failing and barely making a Reflex save to grab the edge with his hand, but then they managed to puncture a hole in the wall and use that for line of effect to summon in some wolves on the other side to harass the kobolds, pushing back on their side to move back the wall.One of the players said that it was intense because he could envision the yapping little kobolds and their wall moving forward and he could almost feel his back coming up against the pit with no room left.  Best reaction I've ever seen to a pit trap encounter!</blockquote>

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