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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5780463" data-attributes="member: 54707">You know traps can always be tied to other things.  Such as alarms. A trap goes off and triggers an alarm and just as the players  are disengaging themselves from the trap the monster who set it shows up, or the  NPCs who set it show up.    Traps can be tied to other traps in complex or  even seemingly invisible or magical ways.   Suppose you fall into a 10' trap onto spikes. You  take damage. Then as you're climbing out the spikes transform into venomous  serpents, all 20 spikes.   A part of the ceiling collapses blocking one area  and forcing the party to go forward by another route which is simply a  bottleneck extension of the same trap leading to a prepared ambush in a corridor  which negates many of the player's advantages. A well designed trap can be a  near perfect ambush distraction or prelude to an ambush.   Suppose you're traveling with NPCs you assume you  can trust but who have set traps or know of traps they wish to lead the party  into? They're led into a killbox?   Suppose a trap is used by monsters or NPCs to  split or separate the party into smaller, more manageable, more killable units?  Suppose you want to separate out one or a few party members so that they can be  captured for interrogation? For torture? Maybe just to steal what he has? That's  exactly how I'd use a trap. As a tool to achieve a greater end or purpose. Just  because the trap is inanimate doesn't mean the intelligence or will that set or  devised it is. So traps can be far more than seemingly motiveless enterprises.  They can have far more than just a single purpose or exist for far greater  reasons than just kill or damage.    If you think about traps less in the sense of what  kind of damage they do, or don't do, and instead think far more about them as  devices designed to achieve the specific purposes or objectives of those who set  the trap, or even think of them as a hunter or soldier might, then traps are  limited in effect only by how imaginatively they are designed and  used.They can be extremely effective tools set to achieve a number of  different, or maybe even multiple, ends. Even the simplest of traps. Depends on  who set them and with what intent.</blockquote>

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