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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7597021" data-attributes="member: 97077">Thanks for the analysis.I ran this scenario twice for two different groups. One group made it through with a few checks, chiefly due to interacting with the tilting floors. The other group made it through with no checks at all by triggering the spikes with the pressure plate from a distance (good ol' 10-foot pole), weighing them down once triggered, then leap frogging their way down the corridor.My position is that this challenge, as with all challenges, is for the players regardless of how the DM adjudicates. The characters are simply a tool to resolve uncertainty if and when it arises when there's a meaningful consequence for failure. Some DMs will assign more uncertainty to the outcome of the characters' tasks than others and therefore there will be more checks. Even so, it's the player who is being challenged in my view and the smart play is to avoid the rolls if you can since the d20 is a fickle friend at best.</blockquote>