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Panda Stumbleduck	What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	Lead	[-]
Posts: 51 (09/13/01 17:21:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None The one I found was a fountain in the middle of an area. \| \| In the bottom of the fountain ____\| \|_____ there is alot of cool stuff, (+2's ____ X _____ etc.) When you pick some of it out \| \| The fountain area is shut up and \| \| water starts pouring in, enough to fill the area up in 5 rounds. The only way to stop the water is to place the object back in the fountain. It almost took me and my group out! We figured it out with about half a round to go. Thank goodness we didn't die. Panda Stumbleduck - "The Panda Whom Does Often Dance"
Shadow P Monkey	Re: What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#1	[-]
Posts: 2906 (09/13/01 17:46:09) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	This is a 2ed game, but the trap can still work in just about any game. We were exploring a ruined castle. We were underground in some godaweful maze of tunnels. The lineup was like this. Kender thief wearing leather(movement of 9) in front, human wizard with no armor(movement 12), human cleric wearing chainmail(movement 9), then my human ranger wearing leather(movement 12), . Keep in mind that this is 2ed in case you're wondering about the movement rates. Also note that you can rush at 1.5 your movement for one round. Ok...the kender in the lead opens a door to see a huge, round boulder(for those who have seen Raiders of the Lost Arc, you've got the picture) rolling from the cieling. The kender quickly leaps into the room to the side of the boulder's path. The wizard dimension doors past it. My ranger and the cleric start running down the passage as fast as we can. So for the first round the the boulder moves at 12, the cleric moves at 13.5, and my ranger moves at 18. We both had a few spaces lead on the boulder. The second round the boulder is still moving at 12, now the cleric is moving at 9, and my ranger moves at 12(quite safe from the boulder). It takes us 3 rounds to get to a room that we can jump out of the way. I make it no problem, but the cleric just barely made it with the boulder right on his heels. So we start walking back to meet up with the wizard and the kender. Well guess what? Nobody bothered to prop the door open. I open the door, see another boulder roll out of the cieling! This time my ranger was able to jump into the room out of the boulder's path. But the cleric had to start running again. Unfortunately, he was much closer this time, and was unable to outrun the boulder. Well we heard the screams of terror from the cleric, and assumed the worst. I noticed back through the passage we ran through to escape the boulder there was a door. So I had someone hold the door to the current room open while I went down to prop that other door open in case we needed to duck into it from another boulder. I needed something to prop that door open. I thought to myself...I guess I could use the cleric's smashed helmet as a prop. So I walked down the passage to find the cleric's remains only to find that his body was very much in tact...although he was in quite a bit of shock. At that moment I felt like smacking the DM. It was a friggin illusion! I just ran my but off from a programmed illusion! The wizard used up a spell to escape it! Man was that an evil trap! So...I see you are trained in the art of Monkey Kombat...
Power Munchkin	Re: What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#2	[-]
Posts: 4979 (09/13/01 19:58:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Illusionary floor is an all-time classic.
Talia	Re: What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#3	[-]
Posts: 10 (09/13/01 20:23:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	For evil traps... look no further than the Return To The Tomb Of Horrors. I can't begin to describe all the vile traps, but here is one: You enter a room to see a man chained to the wall ala 'Hellraiser', complete with barbed chains. He is alive and asks to be freed. Problem: anyone who frees him takes his place. The trap does not allow you to die either, it keeps you in constant agony. THAT is evil.
Shadowwalker	Re: Evil Traps	#4	[-]
Posts: 406 (09/13/01 21:07:36) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	If you want just Plain Rude as well as Evil Look no farther than Grimtooths Book of traps 1-8 if you can still find them
GSFB	Re: Evil Traps	#5	[-]
Posts: 4873 (09/13/01 23:19:12) Local user Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	an open portable hole on the floor, half covered with broken wood to make it look like a sprung pit trap, with a corpse and some shiny treasure at the bottom, in a campaign where every PC has a bag of holding. I do solemly swear that I will support and defend The Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of The President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and The Uniform Code of Military Justice; so help me God.
lawithro	Re: What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#6	[-]
Posts: 65 (09/14/01 05:54:40) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Another water trap (I still remember this, even though it happened about 10 years ago): Our group is wandering through the dungeons of the old keep. We come into a room, 30' to a side, doors in the middle of the north and south walls. Nothing else. Us being paranoid, we look for traps. We notice something that's not very well concealed in the center of the room: a stone is raised about 1/2 inch above the rest. We walk over to investigate, only to hear a click...as the (well disguised) stones 5' away from the raised one sink beneath our feet, triggering the trap. Two huge stone slabs drop from the ceiling in front of the two exits (blocking them securely). Four grinning mouths appear at the corners of the room, and say the following poem: If you want to go home, then finish the poem and maybe I'll open the door. For Robin Hood's job was simiply to rob from the rich and give to the.... "POOR!" we all gleefully shout. Immediately, the mouths start cackling wildly. A torrent of water starts gushing from a small hole in the ceiling. The room begins to fill with water. It turns out that the water was coming from a Decanter of Endless Water in a small chamber above the ceiling. The command word for the Decanter was "pour". But the Magic Mouth spells that were in place couldn't activate the item (as per the spell description). So the trap was designed to make the victim say it. It was real nasty. http://cs.unca.edu/~withrola/toee
Thalantor	Re: What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#7	[-]
Posts: 9783 (09/14/01 07:59:58) Dutch Fluff Bunny Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	A corridor 50 ft long with torches every 5 ft at both walls.. A door at the end saying "dragon hoard". A note attached saying "gone out to lunch - Gruuk the dragon". Whenthe PC's open the door, all the little fires atop the torches are set off, as they are delayed blast fireballs cast at 18th lvl. Unfair doesn't even begin to describe it. Confucius say: Only fools fight monsters. Wise man scream like girl and runs.
Unregistered(d)	Re: What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#8	[-]
Posts: 0 (09/14/01 08:05:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I still like my classic gel cube traps. Have a well-hidden pit trap or an illusionary floor over a pit. At the bottom of the pit is a gelatinous cube; it takes up the entirety of the pit and is thus unavoidable. Triggering the pit opens a panel in the ceiling (also well-hidden, with an illusion or otherwise) and another cube falls down into the first pit, on top of the first cube, thus pinning the character between two doses of the lethal Jell-O. Pits/ceiling traps full of green slime can serve similar purposes. Outside the Tomb of Horrors, the worst trap I've run into in play was one deep pit that was filled top to bottom with several permanent blade barriers, so you get chewed up all the way down, and while at the bottom/trying to climb up if you somehow survive long enough. You can set up the same situation using a teleport trap to a no-exit room filled with the blade barrier, if you want your PCs to hate you. Famous Last Words #1 (fighter) "So what if he's got a fancy magic sword? He's a pale, skinny guy, and a wizard to boot. How tough can he possibly be?"
Barak	Re: What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#9	[-]
Posts: 8757 (09/14/01 09:07:24) Dragon Protector III Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ok, how does the trap goes again.. the PCs open a trapdoor, in which there is a metal ladder going down. If one of the PC does go down, one of the rungs of the ladder unleashes a shocking grasp, at which point the whole ladder becomes electrified. Follows a Power Word Stun, and then a Disintegrate on the ladder. If any PC can -not- fall, I'd be surprised. At the bottom of the pit rests a Sphere Of Annihilation. That's what I remember of a trap found in a 2nd edition adventure, Maze Of Madness. ******************************************** It's funny that in a world with dragons and fireballs, people will still say it's unrealistic for women to be as strong as men. -Barak
tarrasque59	Re: What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#10	[-]
Posts: 93 (09/14/01 10:03:45) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	put a buch of lighting bolt traps make them perment and have a magic magnet that sucks the pc to it when they all are in the center they cant do anything and the get shocked again and again until they die
Pyrowolf of Shadowdale	Re: What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#11	[-]
Posts: 692 (09/14/01 10:09:54) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I know EXACTALLY which adventure the rolling stone is from Shadow, in fact I'm about to send my group through it in the near future. I hope it turns out as well as the one you encountered. I also agree with the traps found in Return to the Tomb of Horrors. Some pretty evil ones throughout that one... Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
SothThe69th	Re: What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#12	[-]
Posts: 2172 (09/14/01 10:15:32) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I don't know about evil but stupid would have to be the nonmagical trap that was a perpetual motion machine. I would'nt have balked had the trap been magical, but the DM was adherent to the fact that it was completely NON magical. I with my meager knowledge of physics, fully and totally rebuked him, and then told him that he was a fool in general, needless to say, I got a free pass out of the dungeon. ^_^ BTW- it was a perpetual motion boulder trap, the boulder would keep rolling, and rolling, and rolling, etc. --- "JESUS SAVES! The rest of you take full damage." Soth69 Winner of the coveted Y2K Sig Award! AIM: FieryBallz
Pyrowolf of Shadowdale	Re: What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#13	[-]
Posts: 692 (09/14/01 11:50:29) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	OT Soth, why the new user name? Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
Mikhail	Nastiest Trap	#14	[-]
Posts: 1278 (09/14/01 12:05:00) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Heh. Simple but nasty. 80' high tower. On each floor at the exact same spot is a trap door. If you hit it on the 2nd floor, you fall 10' to the next floor, if you hit it on the 8th floor, you fall 80' to the bottom. Each floor you get a (progressively harder) save to try to grab the edges of the trap door to stop your fall. But, that isn't the worst part. On the bottom floor in the same spot is a pressure trap. If you step on that spot, all the trap doors open (except the one right above you so that you don't know what is happening). From the top of the tower, a cinder block is let loose and falls the entire height of the tower. So, if you fall from 80' up, you take 21d6 falling damage, and then the cinder block hits you for an additional 15d6+50 points. Ouch.
Power Munchkin	Re: Nastiest Trap	#15	[-]
Posts: 4979 (09/14/01 13:41:50) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	but if the trap is in the same place every time... Isn't that a little pretictable?
Fewl Monk	Re: Nastiest Trap	#16	[-]
Posts: 36 (09/14/01 14:27:04) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Saw this once... 10'x10' pit trap in a 10' wide hallway. The pit is 20' deep. At the bottom: a 10'x10' gelatinous cube "Your kung-fu is strong, but mine is better!"
carnivore	Re: Nastiest Trap	#17	[-]
Posts: 1873 (09/14/01 16:52:29) Local user Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	A small peephole with a dart in it. It triggers when you put your eye up to it either by magic (reflex save) or a small pressure plate near the opening (easier to avoid). Get an eye-patch. Carnivore...When the age of the vikings came to a close, they must of sensed it. Probably, they gathered together one evening, slapped each other on the back and said: "Hey, good job." - Jack Handey
Shadow P Monkey	Re: Nastiest Trap	#18	[-]
Posts: 2906 (09/14/01 17:29:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	An interesting fix to the 80' tower trap to make it far less predictable. The trap doors only open if the trap door on the top level is triggered...then the bottom door closes until the cinder block(I would prefer an anvil just as tribute to Looney-Toons). Maybe put a sign on the bottom of that last trap door as a harbinger...something like "Beware of Falling Objects" so they can see it while laying flat on their backs. I always like the gauntlet style traps. The kind that force them to run through a bunch of small, but painful traps to escape one big trap...only to find that the end of the line will be difficult to get past. PC's are about to start walking down a long narrow passage(this should make them paranoid...and it usually does). Anyway, they realize that to get what they want they are gonna have to walk down the passage...so they start walking through using a great deal of caution(not realizing that they triggered a timed trap just by walking through the archway that led to the passage). They are checking for traps, and find a few, but after a few minutes of this the real trap goes off. The archway behind them closes off. They are too far away to stop it or get out now. They know there are a lot more little traps through the passage(little arrows from the walls, little bear traps, and things like that), so they will just proceed with their current caution...or not. They notice that the cieling seems to be coming closer to their heads. They now know that to survive they must start running through these little traps if they want to avoid getting squashed by the big trap. So they start running as fast as they can, springing traps left and right(no time to search for traps)...sometimes getting stuck in a little bear trap or two, and have to get out of it. By the time they reach the end of the falling cieling, they have to duck their heads(except for the vertically challenged). But at the end of the passage is a pit 10' wide, and 20' deep. Now of course not all of them are going to be able to jump across...and time is running out. Some of them may have to willingly jump down the 20' pit just to live, or find some other way across. It doesn't seem to bad an option. However they may not have noticed that above the pit, the cieling is 50' up...or that the pit has reversed gravity cast on it ) So...I see you are trained in the art of Monkey Kombat...
Drakus	Re: Nastiest Trap	#19	[-]
Posts: 1540 (09/14/01 19:43:19) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	A short pit trap that drops you into the lair of a hungry minotaur... and you're level 1. ------In order to climb out of the hole, you must first drop the shovel.
Mikhail	What is the most evil trap that you've come across??	#20	[-]
Posts: 1278 (09/16/01 07:45:01) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Written by Power Munchkin *Quote:* but if the trap is in the same place every time... Isn't that a little pretictable? Yes, but that is the way I do fatal traps. I've always felt that traps should have some level of warning to them. For low damage traps, usually I don't provide any hint, but I don't think that someone should walk into a room, touch something and have their head suddenly explode. Not really fair. In the case of the cinder block trap, anyone who has stepped on that spot on another floor should expect something. Strangely enough, the group that played this module, did spring this trap, despite the warnings. Funny thing is, the guy who sprung it wasn't the guy who got hit. (There is a one round delay on the trap, he moved off the target spot, someone else moved on...)

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