Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!srt From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: More Traps Message-ID: <1663@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 18:33:51 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.1663 Posted: Tue Oct 16 18:33:51 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 06:44:52 EDT References: <3236@rabbit.UUCP> Organization: UCLA CS Dept. Lines: 38 Most of my traps involve a defender, since I don't think most trap mechanisms available at a low technological level have much lasting power. (1) Build a door with a deeply recessed (fake) handle. When the character puts his hand in to pull the handle, the defender on the far side lops it off with a sword (automatic hit, 50% completely severed). (2) A variant on the oil hallway. party defenders -----+ +-+ oil 6" +---------- | | |_________________________| |pit | +----+ The party comes along the hallway and the defenders jump out from around a corner and loose arrows. The party jumps into the pit for cover. The defenders light the oil and their mage casts a Wind spell the blows the flames over the pit and starts slopping the burning oil into the pit. No one gets out of the pit without major damage. It should be pointed out that the average Middle Age oil didn't really burn too well, and that most FRPers treat oil more like gasoline. (3) A ladder trap. The party comes to a ladder leading up a shaft at the end of a corridor. The fourth rung up is triggered to collapse the first five rungs, and to open a trap door at the bottom of the ladder. The result is that the climber gets a fall of 10-12'. If the party persists in climbing (and most will), the seventh rung or so is triggered to release a load of rocks from the top of the shaft. The climber (and anyone else in the shaft) gets a 15-20' fall AND a ton of rocks on top of them. Pretty deadly to most characters. Scott R. Turner UCLA Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90024 ARPA: srt@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!srt