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Welcome to Teos, the new on-going co-host to Down with D&D! Shawn and Teos break down traps! What are they used for, how can they be used by a DM, and are they right for every game?
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It felt like a historic moment, listening to the introduction of Teos as co-host. The certainly proved to be a great move!
I’d like to share some traps I’m particularly proud of. While running the kobold cave portion of Return to the Keep on the Borderlands (for 5E) (see Session 40: Kobold Stress – Session 41: Smoke Filled Skies And Clouded Minds) the party had alerted the kobolds to their presence (and stolen their dragon egg) without finishing the kobolds off, so I had to introduce some new traps (see Session 46: Take Two – Session 47: An Unknown Threat And A Third Loss) that I thought were very engaging and kobold appropriate:
1) a rope of to a tree house (the tree house is loaded with discarded weapons and armor and rigged to collapse)
2) a rose filled pit trap with skunks inside (resulting in alerting victims to their presence)
3) the disappearing dummy (a papier-mâché person that gets dragged into a cave, leading the party into a portcullis trap)
Thanks for sharing these, Eric. They sound diabolical!