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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calzone" data-source="post: 5615095" data-attributes="member: 87629">One thing I keep in mind when placing traps is that your average evil  overlord isn't going to want to spend several hours disarming them to  get to his inner sanctum after an impromptu trip to the grocery store.I recently ran an adventure where my players ventured into a kobold  warren to stop a sinister ritual from occurring. The warren was an old  mine that had been taken over, and as such the original design was  fairly linear. The kobolds laced this entire linear section with traps,  murder holes, sally ports, and other such nastiness. The kobolds then  excavated a set of interconnected passages parallel to the old mine  shafts and hid them behind secret doors. These passages provided safe  access to the common rooms, ritual chamber, and living quarters, as well  as staging areas for mopping up adventurers working through traps. The  adventure went great, with the players discovering an entrance to the  side tunnels immediately, partially exploring and clearing out a good  part of the warrens, and then backtracking and stumbling their way  through the trapped section while the remaining kobolds ambushed them.  We had a blast.For very cumbersome or lethal traps, consider using them to guard  ancient tombs, hidden treasures rooms that were never meant to be  disturbed, etc. These traps can provide challenges to players in places  devoid of monsters and help reinforce the bleakness of the setting.  Alternatively, scatter them liberally in an old-school megadungeon - the  dungeon is a quasi-conscious malevolent entity that actively opposes  the players during exploration, so it's quite possible that the jammed  door two hallways back opens easily for dungeon denizens, allowing them  to bypass the  hall-of-whirling-blades-poison-darts-and-bad-poetry-recitation.</blockquote>

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