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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Petrosian" data-source="post: 341282" data-attributes="member: 1149">The trap will accomplish several things...first it might damage the character,second, it will probably slow down the party, as they will now be spending time searching for others.Traps main threat and main combat effect is slowing down the party. In most cases a trap CAN be found and CAn be diosarmed with take 20s but these slow you down to a crawl.if you are playing in a baldurs gate dungeaon where preprogrammed monsters all sit in their hidey holes until you attack them, speed is not an issue. Otherwise it is.As for this"Let compare it to, say, an Ogre (pretty standard CR2 beastie). The Ogre can do more than double the damage in a single attack (once chance to miss has been factored in), and normally gets to attack more than once before it keels over."Over 75% of my ogre adversaries never got a swing off. Ogres get spotted/heard usually well before the PCs are close and never, almost never, start combats within melee range. The ogre's lousy range gets him killed more often than not. Ogres are big, stupid, easy to hit (relatively), loud and easy to spot,  and  as such their massive (for CR 2) melee damage is more the punishment for mishandling the encounter than a reality for competent PCs.On the other hand, in a game where silent, smart ogres wait for surprise around the corner, this too will be different.</blockquote>