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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TracerBullet42" data-source="post: 2943169" data-attributes="member: 11885">I've recently started to run the Age of Worms adventure path from Dungeon Magazine.  This is my first attempt at running a campaign, so be gentle...First off, I'd love to just say to anyone wondering whether the AoW is any good, this first leg, called "The Whispering Cairn," is very good, and I hope that the quality continues throughout...But now, onto my query:The group has come up with an interesting way to get by the wind trap attached to the room with the spinning sarcophogas.  They wish to hang one of the party's lanterns from the chain with the missing lantern and use a prestidigitation spell to "color" the lantern red so that it might undo the trap.You see, the way to get past the trap is to have a lantern hanging from each of seven different chains in seven different corridors.  Each of the lanterns is a different color that corresponds with a mural on a wall that they have discovered.  They've gathered six of the seven lanterns, and the seventh is further on in the dungeon.  They know, however, the color of the missing lantern because of the mural.  Should I allow this creative answer to suffice for the traps sake?Should I allow such a trick to work?  Personally, I like that they're using different resources to get by the trap.  Plus, it can have an interesting effect for when the spell duration expires and they're already on the other side of the trap...hehehe.Being pretty new to this, though, are there consequences that I'm not seeing to be expected from allowing this creative bypassing of a trap?And if we could stay away from the "it's your game, do what you want" type of answers, I'd appreciate it.  Thanks!</blockquote>

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