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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirrorrorrim" data-source="post: 9085730" data-attributes="member: 7040132">That isn't a complete rule.What does "snare" even mean? What do they do? Do you mean that it works just like the spell? If that is the case, I'll try my hand a merging your ideas with the effect of the Snare spell.Snare Setter Basic Snare Setter: You can purchase a Snare Kit, or make a Snare Kit costing 1gp worth of material during downtime. You can set a snare in 10 minutes, with a Dexterity saving throw with a DC set by a Wisdom (Survival) check. Expert Snare Setter: As Basic Snare Setter, except you can set the snare in 1 minute, and you have advantage when setting the DC of the snare. You can also find the appropriate materials using a DC 15 Survival check after 10 minutes. Master Snare Setter: As Expert Snare Setter, except you can build and maintain preset snares, up to your proficiency bonus per long rest. You can drop these snares as a bonus action. Snare effect: The triggering creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone and be hoisted into the air until it hangs upside down 3 feet above the protected surface, where it is restrained. The restrained creature can make a Dexterity saving throw with disadvantage at the end of each of its turns and ends the restrained effect on a success. Alternatively, another creature that can reach the restrained creature can use an action to make an Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check against your save DC. On a success, the restrained effect also ends.First, I would not allow any version of that mundane ability in an open field or a location without trees/walls/verticality. The game doesn't work on video game logic. Environment matters.Second, I will never again allow ability checks to determine the save DCs of combat effects. Ability check modifiers and totals are on a completely different level that saving throw modifiers and totals. It was a bad idea for grappling (I hope they keep the UA changes for grappling DCs), and a bad idea for traps.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">3rd level Ranger, or the DM using an enemy ranger: OK, you trip the snare. I rolled a.... 24 for their Wisdom Survival check. That is the Dex save DC to break free. Good luck.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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