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>>21072341
Also trap thread in general.

>>21072351
the MR SNAPPY'S FUNGEON was probably the most helpful thread for my goal.

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>>21072351
Good lord.

>>21072373
Ah man, I remember that thread. Fucking awesome.
I was the fourth post in that cap. I'm so proud.

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>>21072373

>>21072391
The "whisper 'your a cool dude'" That might be my favorite part. I think that that trap set up is required for me to use tonight.

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>>21072392

>>21072424
This is why everyone has a pole.
One holds ceiling-floor, the other the walls.

>>21072392
Poke one with your pole, either the spikes fall and crush it (and you press the other button with your other pole) or the door opens.

Make a giant complex of traps that all squirt harmless water at anyone who triggers them, as well as one vial of antidote. Tell the party that one of the waters is deadly poison that acts slowly and invisibly.

Then, when someone kills themselves, have it turn out that the vial of antidote was the only poison.

>>21072351
Holy shit...

I'm totally gonna use that!

>>21072392
Press them simultaneously and run out the door before the spikes connect

>>21072589
I take my shield and another party member's shield and wield both to cover both sides of me. Once I make it across the hallway, i slide the shields all the way back to the other party members.
Rinse and repeat.

>>21072589
that's just cruel and unoriginal. also OP asked for harmless traps

>>21072823
the traps themselves are harmless, the party should not be drinking potions in dungeons without a reliable way of finding out what they are.

Give them a status condition that's merely visual. It can be an illusion if need be.
It slowly spreads as darkness up somebodies arm but otherwise does nothing. It's cured after a week.
It slowly spreads through contact.
Watch how quickly the party members attempt to kill each other.

>>21072888
why dont you tell them that after you killed their character

>>21072888
>>21072936
why does the poison have to be lethal?

>>21072351
>that trap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LkBmLiDPbxQ#t=71s

>>21072948
Symptom:

Noisy Diahrrea that attracts goblins

>>21072889
That one in particular is great because one of my players actually has an infectious disease.

Everything is ok, then bam, everyone is dead.

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posting for reference

>>21072424
>Party explicitly searches for secret doors
>They find the sliding door in the wall
>But for some reason they don't find the moving panels in the ceiling and floor right next to it

A chamber with an open barrel full of ten-foot poles. Old-school Gygaxian dungeon-crawlers will expect some kind of horrible trap anyway. New kids who play video games will be accustomed to the formula where you defeat the boss using the item you found earlier in the dungeon, and they'll be poking everything with ten-foot poles just like the old-schoolers.

>>21073100
I have kept my party in a similar trap for close to 3 hours. A simple square room, the door labeled: "This room has traps" Inside, is a large room with a single chest. There are 3 tripwires on the chest. After the first hour was up, they had finally made it over to the chest. And after carefully disarming the first two tripwires, checking for just about everything conceivable, they tripped the third, which opened the chest and gave them gold. Confetti rained down from the ceiliing. The chest would have opened anyways, but there wouldn't have been confetti.

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>>21072341
>narrow corridor with wooden candelabras
>suddenly they fall
>they were not candelabras at all

>cold-ass area of dungeon
>as in below freezing
>spending too long in the area causes negative effects
>eventually come across a shower sprinkler thing spraying comfortably warm water
>shuts off after a few seconds of standing under it
>accelerated hypothermia

http://oglaf.com/trapmaster/1/

>This

>>21073017
The goblins are Licensed Apothecaries who proffer herbal remedies.

One remedy involves a sizable cork.

>party opens door
>room on other side is filled with powder kegs and a lit fuse
>enough kegs to blow up a massive section of the dungeon
>no time to run
>flame reaches kegs
>nothing happens

>>21072341

Pressure plates that do nothing but move weights hidden behind the walls.

Tripwires attached to mechanisms that are...attached to nothing, in turn.

Statues with arms that can be manipulated. Manipulating the arms does nothing.

Enchanted suits of armor line a hall. Their heads follow movement, but otherwise they do nothing.

The floor drops out to reveal a four-foot pit.

Spikes erupt from the ceiling, stopping ten feet above the floor.

Magic mouths that scream something that sounds like an elder tongue but is actually gibberish.

A trapped lock releases a rush of smoke from the walls that conceals...nothing.

The floor of the hallway ahead is lined with innumerable skulls. One skull in twenty will scream when stepped on.

The seemingly harmless image of a comely young woman begging for aid suddenly transforms upon the approach of the PCs in the image of a medusa....that is also harmless. It's just an image.

>>21073444
>kegs are filled with milkshake powder

>>21073448
The first doorway the PCs come to is slightly ajar. When opened fully, a bucket will fall down from overhead, full of white paint. (no save, it's splash damage.)

A statue has a rotating base. Turning it reveals a "kick me" sign etched into the marble on it's back. Booting the statue in the arse will open a secret door.

>>21073527
>A statue has a rotating base. Turning it reveals a "kick me" sign etched into the marble on it's back. Booting the statue in the arse will open a secret door.

I love this. I'm using it, thank you.

>>21073390
People, did you know I have a penis friend?
It wiggles and squirms, like a friendly worm
It's my very own six-inch pal
My penis friend!

>>21073448

All of this is in one dungeon.

>The dungeon is actually a hideout for court jesters of all factions.

>pc sets off trap
>doors slam shut
>white gas starts flowing in from vents in the walls
>party must puzzle their way out of the room before they die
>it's just steam

>>21073624
>it's just steam
>harmless trap
>100+ degree air is harmless

I think you mean water vapor

Curse that makes them think their gender has been switched

can be applied to the whole group or just an individual

perhaps to the whole group but wears off at different rates? get them to slowly realize they've been parading around as cross dressers

>>21073527

The floor of the next room feels horribly unbalanced and sets the PCs stomachs' swaying. Breaking through the floor reveals it to be a single large platform placed atop dozens of coiled springs.

A door slides aside to reveal a door, which slides aside to reveal a door, which slides aside to reveal a door, which slides aside to reveal a door...

Breaking a tripwire on the threshold of a door causes a massive scythe to sweep across the threshold of the door across the room.

A massive boulder comes rolling towards the PCs and bumps against them harmlessly. It's made of paper stretched over a wood frame.

Opening a door at one end of a hallway causes the door at the other end to immediately slam shut.

When questioned, a skeletal corpse does nothing but make agonizing puns - "I'm no healer, but PRIEST to meet you!" "Why was the fighter so afraid? He was a WORRIER! AHAHAHAHA!"

>>21073690
The floor is stable, but the room turns.

Oh, yes. Thanks.

>>21073643
Oh, yes. Thanks.

>>21073812
>>21073814
But Flea calls himself a man and just looks like...Well, that. But without breasts because SNES not inernet.

A large chasm in the middle of a hallway.
Players must jump it to proceed.
The chasm is filled with spikes.
A failed jump and they land on a floor full of pillows; the spikes were an illusion.
Optional: a secret was also hidden in the illusion

A chilled room filled with gelatinous cubes

it's water and corn starch

>>21074074
Fail-to-succeed always feels a bit too mean for me.
It's punishing people for being good, and that just makes players hate you.
Everything apart from the secret is good though.

Pie-throwing traps.
Water-squirt flowers
Vats of confetti.
The BBEG is ringmaster, the clowns replaced all the traps.

>>21074136
I like this, I should come up with more traps based around cheap imitations of danger

also, one of the cubes should be real, maybe make the room smokey so they can't tell which it is as they move

hmm, A room filled with animated statues that don't attack, it's a wizards chess board

>>21074181
The dragon is actually his pet lizard that he found a way to repeatedly enlarge, still has the health of a tiny creature

>>21074204
It was a lizard originally, and he glued spikes to it before enlarging.
It's like an old dinosaur film.

>>21074231
and cardboard/balsa wood wings.

>>21074251
and it's vegetarian, all it eats is enlarged melons

>>21074329
No, it eats wyrms.

>>21074362
it loses it's charm when you make it powerful enough to eat great serpents

did you mean worms?

The last trap thread I should have posted in, because I have posted in so many. Anyways OP here are a few questions.

1. What is the psychology of your party? Do the scare easy? How much do they value their characters? How often have they encountered traps?

2. How fatal do you need the traps to be?

What I have experimented with are false traps and what I like to call, "The Forlorn Hope" Trap. The second one is harder to defeat and is more prone to ruin a party psychologically. You might also lose friends from it.

A False Trap, is still a trap: it just comes in multiple varieties.
a. Dead trap: A dummy that is there to confuse the party or change the parties route.
b. Double Trap: a dummy trap that disguises a real trap. An example would be a boulder suspended carefully over a bridge with suspicious floor tiles, which causes the party to take the nearby bridge which has a gust of wind triggered whenever anyone steps on a tile halfway in.
c. False Motive trap: a trap that looks like something, and is well disguised as something, but is in all reality something else. A trap that looks like a puzzle that needs to be solved to gain entrance, but in fact the puzzle pieces are covered in a contact poison.

>>21074384
No, wyrms. Specially bred to be docile.
You only get them at specialist pet stores.

>>21074394
do you have an example of a contact poison? I can only think of extremely potent LSD

Which could easily be the best contact poison

>>21074431
You can make a nicotine contact poison. It kills though.

>>21074431
Poison Ivy / Oak is the most common contact poison you'll run into on a day-to-day basis.

Oh wait: Capsaicin. Pepper spray.

>>21074471
oh god I'm fucking retarded

I still think a high dose of LSD is the best though

The Forlorn Hope Trap is only as effective as your party. It requires your entire dungeon be based around traps like it otherwise your players will call bullshit on you.

Due to most Parties being angry murder hobos who will extend all efforts to complete a goal, so long as those goals coincide.

The trap must have bait that appeals to most of the party members, but not so much that it is obviously a trap. Once the party members are separated each piece of bait sets off a trap, that is unrelated to that particular party member. It instead causes problems for the other party members and their routes back to the party later on, or triggering traps outside the dungeon. The point is that the traps are delayed to that particular party member and later cause problems for other party members, systematically setting off other nearby traps and events thus causing all sorts of problems for the party.

>>21074499
>>21074471
It depends on the system. If you are going for realistic and want to go with that plant angle http://www.thepoisongarden.co.uk/ is a good place to start. Also certain types of nettles. If it's DnD Black Lotus Venom can kill with a few lucky rolls, if your going for the biological angle well,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_syndrome Jellyfish are the go to creature.

not sure how safe this is, but a permanent (ish) reversal of gravity, like they walk in and the ceiling is covered in spikes, then gravity reverses and the spikes are on their floor or something

>>21074554
Everyone knows you never split the party.
http://youtu.be/waa2ucfgVgQ

>>21074394
We have 3 players. Player 1 is already paranoid and uneasy, but easy to provoke. Player 2 is lazy and overconfident. Player 3 is essentially a money whore artificer. All are pretty easy to manipulate

>>21074653
That's the tough part, is making the party split. You really don't need the party to split for it to work, the whole point is to cause the party problems later than sooner.

My last rogue was a trap, but she was far from harmless.

Everytime you approach a certain door, the entire room rotates it away from you

there is no door

>>21074862
needs a way out, but i like it

>>21074914
there are non rotating doors

it's designed to keep players wasting time trying to get into the fake door as something happens behind their backs

>>21074923
well shit, for that matter let's take a lesson from cats

enchant a gold coin or something else valuable to ethereal jaunt to a random location nearby whenever someone touches it

or how about a trail of gold coins down an endless staircase. At what point do they give up when the next coin is right there?

>>21074968

The first one is classy. If it is done in a dimly lit long hallway it's even better.

>>21075007
can you imagine putting that coin in the middle of a city?

great troll

Was "That Fucking Wizard's Tower" on the archive?

Some kind of graveyard list... taking ages to load.
http://xen.thisisnotatrueending.com/suptg/graveyard/10616380/

>>21075046
now I want macguffin that ethereal jaunts on touch, but I wouldn't tell the players it's important in any way, just put it at their local quest hub, and let them propose methods of catching it at the start of every session

>>21075069

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?bj8qowazzhed46p

>>21073383
The cork is actually a trap; it opens when inserted into an asshole. As in, figuratively.
And the goblins charge an exorbitant fee for it.

>>21075816
Roll for anal circumference.

>>21075863
fool! That roll was completed in character creation!

>>21075863
No, I mean the kind of asshole that That Guys are made of, not the one attached to butts.
So if your rogue is an annoying dickstabber and got the diarrhea, the cork's going to unlesh its contents, but if it's the hapless cleric it does... nothing.

anyone have anything to add to this thread? More traps?

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>>21076121
Only this monstrosity.
It activates when all the doors are closed, I leave it to you to decide how to let the players escape.

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>>21076121
How about a trap that's also a trap?

>>21076201
Second one sounds like something a wizard-lumberjack would use.
I like that.

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>>21076265
Its just a trap in a trap thread. I don't have too many of 'em.

I have used some before, but it was a rogue who was doing it.

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Last one from me.

Some friends of mine recently employed the one where you have a very gentlemanly and invincible ogre guarding a locked door. He attacks with nonlethal damage, fighting with fisticuffs, and he'll open the door for you if you think to ask politely.

>>21076348
Players, exasperated: Won't you just let us through the damn door?
Ogre: Wut's der maj-ic wuurd?
Players, puzzled: Please?
(Ogre opens the door, exeunt alles)

It's not "100+ degree air" It's 100+ degree water.

Sauna works on steam.

>>21076405
Was supposed to be reply to
>>21073643

>>21076405
>>21076474
it's a gas, I meant gas not air

>>21076495
Still, doesn't make it any way harmful.

>>21076552
you know that's in celcius right?

let me convert to your fucktarded system because apparently you don't understand you would be breathing a gas at 212+ degrees Fahrenheit. Every cell it contacts will burn.

>>21076633
It depends
You can be unharmed in a place filled with steam (think of a sauna) but if you go too far with the steam.. that's another story

>>21076671
sauna steam isn't at 373K, it mixes with the cooler air, that's why there is condensation everywhere

I know I'm starting to sound like the steam in the trap would be harmless, but it depends on circulation and rate of entry along with proximity to the players

>>21076633
Hello, My name is Jyri and I'm from Finland.

Yes, you can actually enjoy a sauna that has 100 degree celsius nice little warmth.

>>21073100
Fuck, I always thought that there was a followup comic to that... I typed in '2' in the search bar and it said I 'failed to find the secret page'. Any tips?

Also it might have been that secret from several comics ago.

>>21076725
pretty sure that trap worked with you

>>21076725
secret pages usually have "epilogue" instead of numbers.