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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8576098" data-attributes="member: 20564">Three I've used in the past year.One was a simple pressure plate trap filling a 5'x5' section of a 5' wide hallway. They got tipped off to it.  The problem was the hidden pit trap with a reason to get more characters down there quickly.  If the party tried to jump over the known trap they would fall in the hidden one, and if they were to help someone out of the pit and it's hazard they would either need to deal with the pressure plate, or jump over both and hope there was no trap on the other side.  This was for 3rd level characters in a West Marches style game several of DMs were running together.Another pit trap (for a different, higher level group) was in the Imperial Catacombs, which were lit every 30' by these everburning sconces that gave dim light for 20'.  The pit trap was 40 feet down, so it was dark at the far side, and there was a Black Pudding at the bottom.  Oh, and the party knew about the pit trap from the original dwarven blueprints but were trying to get to a secret door that was hidden in the wall of the pit part way down but were getting rushed by foes (with ranged attacks) from behind.Last was for a third party.  They had come across a whole fey-built "dungeon" that they knew had brass dragon wyrmlings at the end.  Due to player actions the magic that had sustained it was taken away, and without that the wyrmlings would starve.  Anyway they went through this entire tricks and puzzles dungeon, to come back out with the wyrmlings, only to realize that all of the traps were designed not to hurt the wyrmlings and to usher them back to the main chamber in case they did get out.  So the party could have avoided a bunch of fire traps and animated armor and all of that sort of thing on the way down if they just let the second trap, a long spiral stairwell that turned into a chute, take them.  They would have ended up in the central chamber with the wyrmlings and then just worked through it all once.They found this out by working through it twice - once down and then once up - and then right near the end the puppy-enthusiastic brass dragons accidentally triggered the chute and them and several party members ended up back in the central chamber to do it all again.EDIT: Added some details to the first, and fixed scones to sconces.  Yummy.</blockquote>

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