Article resquest - Designing Traps and Hazards.

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#1

DMaple

Jun 19, 2009 5:26:41
Could we have an article from a designer on making traps and hazards? And levelling up (or down) existing traps and hazards like you can with monsters. (Or is this part of the content of DMG2?)

The recent Vicious Venues article uses the old pre-update DC's from table 42 from the DMG, in it's trap. None of the traps in the DMG were updated when that table was changed, and their DC's were generally higher than the old table.

I think it's right that traps should be pretty hard to spot, so the old DC's seem right but there is very little guidance on it.
#2

Emi

Jun 19, 2009 17:15:02
Here is a link to an article concerning trap creation, though it's a bit old. Hope it helps

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drfe/20080818a