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<blockquote data-quote="Impeesa" data-source="post: 916135" data-attributes="member: 498">Mine is completely un-plot-related. This dates back a few years to the earlier days of (drumroll) the high school campaign that wouldn't die!So the players are tromping through a basic dungeon crawl, when they happen upon a large room. A huge stone door drops behind them as they move into the room. There is no apparent exit. In the center of the room is a column, with a push-button and a mechanical counter. The counter is ticking down, and as it gets near zero they start to hear some ominous grinding noises and such. After frantically determining that there is indeed no obvious exit, they try pushing the button. Noises stop, counter resets to 60. They keep one person on the button while they comb the room for possible exits or anything... I laugh openly, asking honestly if they're sure (as though giving them a hint) when someone proposes letting the counter go down to zero to see what actually happens. After nearly an hour (real-time) of debate, they decide to just let the thing run down. Horrible grinding noises, dust blows out of cracks, room shakes, opposite wall opens. They continue on through the dungeon. They just about killed me for it.I must admit that I stole the initial trap idea from someone else, more or less, but that's not the most hamster-bastardly part. A few months later, I caught the same group with it again. After another hour or so spent on that room, they were pretty cheesed. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />--Impeesa--</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Impeesa, post: 916135, member: 498"] Mine is completely un-plot-related. This dates back a few years to the earlier days of (drumroll) the [i]high school campaign that wouldn't die![/i] So the players are tromping through a basic dungeon crawl, when they happen upon a large room. A huge stone door drops behind them as they move into the room. There is no apparent exit. In the center of the room is a column, with a push-button and a mechanical counter. The counter is ticking down, and as it gets near zero they start to hear some ominous grinding noises and such. After frantically determining that there is indeed no obvious exit, they try pushing the button. Noises stop, counter resets to 60. They keep one person on the button while they comb the room for possible exits or anything... I laugh openly, asking honestly if they're sure (as though giving them a hint) when someone proposes letting the counter go down to zero to see what actually happens. After nearly an hour (real-time) of debate, they decide to just let the thing run down. Horrible grinding noises, dust blows out of cracks, room shakes, opposite wall opens. They continue on through the dungeon. They just about killed me for it. I must admit that I stole the initial trap idea from someone else, more or less, but that's not the most hamster-bastardly part. A few months later, I caught the same group with it again. After another hour or so spent on that room, they were pretty cheesed. :D --Impeesa-- [/QUOTE]

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