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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Levitator" data-source="post: 3578096" data-attributes="member: 40099">At that rate, I'd think they'd be more at risk from the increased encounters than the damage they would sustain from occasional traps.  I'm curious though, as a DM.  Why are they constantly checking for traps?  Is the place rumored to be unnecessarily booby-trapped?  Does the DM (I didn't want to assume it was you) run more of a puzzle/challenge type campaign?  Or is the party not very experienced as players?  I'm curious because we recently added a new player to our group and she is very paranoid.  She's playing a rogue and wants to constantly check everything for anything.  I don't run a challenge/puzzle style game, so the players will never have to worry about traps just popping up out of nowhere for no reason.  At first, the other players were getting very frustrated.  I just had to remind them that there are a lot of different gaming styles out there, and rather than give her a hard time for slowing the game down to a crawl, that we take some time and explain our campaign world and gaming style.  I once played as a player with a DM who used to do a lot of illogical things in his campaign just to "get us", like traps in the middle of the forest that served no purpose other than to catch us off guard and wear the party down.  I think that always kind of stuck with me so I've always strived to only have traps and puzzles and the like in my campaign if they make sense within the story and the party has a reasonable chance to expect and overcome them.Back to the subject of characters moving at the speed of smell; do you adjust your random encounters to balance out the very slow rate of speed that they are travelling?  I always have, and I'm just wondering what other DM's do to balance out characters bogging the game down when they are trying to be a little too safe?</blockquote>

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