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Subject: More Traps
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Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 18:33:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 16 18:33:51 1984
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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
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