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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old One" data-source="post: 1044694" data-attributes="member: 83">I know there are a couple of books out there with trap-making stuff in them, I will see if I can get some "official" sources.  Pages 114-117 in the original 3E DMG has some stuff on traps (pretty sparse), but is a good place to start.  Simple mechanical traps - ie, tripwires, deadfalls, oilfire, etc - should be doable "on-the-fly" IMO.  You just have to have some materials, make the set-up roll vs. the approapriate DC (12-18, maybe) with a critical failure yielding springing it on yourself.Also, the ability to make magical traps with spells like burning hands, shocking grasp and acid arrow would be a great reason to add a couple of levels of sorcerer or wizard.  Maybe I am playing too much NWN these days (with some very cool trapsetting skills), but I think it would make you a very valuable member of the party...just wear stripped pants and a poofy shirt!~ Old OnePS - Just get the DM to let you buy a Portable Hole Trap(tm)...DC 20 REF save to avoid, 1 full-round action to set-up/take down, 20' deep for 3d6 falling damage + 1d6 spike damage, anything killed or destroyed within the trap turns to dust in 5 rounds, allowing you to pour the dust out and store the trap <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />!</blockquote>

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