The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Yesterday, I read a great and somewhat surprising post on the Tao of D&D. It was surprising because it got right to the point and dealt ...

Here's the last part of my answers to the 20 questions : 15. How are traps located? Description, dice rolling, or some combination?  ...

I'm not sure there's much I can say about magic traps, compared to the physical trap triggers and effects I've been describing f...

You may have noticed that the other three result types can all be expressed in terms of objects moving into the target space (Material Effec...

Traps with a Motion Effect affect the movement of a victim. These are distinct from traps that move an object or substance into or out of a ...

Continuing with trap results to pair with the trap triggers previously described... Structural Effects are those that alter barriers, surfa...

After thinking about trap results and effects for a few days, as opposed to trap triggers, I've come to the conclusion that there are fo...

I thought it would be good to summarize my previous posts on trap triggers using a list sorted by detection methods, so that GMs could compa...

I do plan on continuing the traps series, but the next parts will probably deal with how to detect and disable different trap results. This...

Wheels and axles allow a couple useful modifications to the trigger mechanisms described so far. As mentioned in the post on delays, the rot...

Adding a delay to a trigger pretty much just involves knowing how long some event takes to finish and setting up a mechanical test for compl...

An equilibrium or balance trigger is a balanced plate with lever, spring, or compression triggers near two or more edges, instead of in the ...

Pressure triggers are similar in concept to compression triggers; in fact, pressure triggers can be based on a bellows compression trigger, ...

Lever triggers are pretty common; most tripwires, for example, are connected to levers of some kind, and trapped doors usually involve the d...

A compression trigger is related to pressure triggers and equilibrium triggers, which I will be describing soon. I almost called it a "...

I hadn't planned on doing shutters and valves next, since they are almost always activated by other triggers, like levers. But I've ...

I figured I would start with spring triggers. These are not necessarily the spiral-based springs we're all familiar with, but instead ar...

This post is inspired by my previous post (or, more accurately, the comments from Richard and Brendan,) but it's not actually what I pl...

There's a thread on Dragonsfoot about using the old school approach to detecting and disabling traps; in other words, having players des...