Hey /tg/ can we get a thread for traps and ingenious ideas for

My GM fucked with me once by blocking our path with talking door. No matter what password did we tell it, it wouldn't open.

We had to trick the door to say the password to open it

>>54108237
hehe
now thats what I'm talking about

>>54108237
How did you find the password?

A completely bare room, with each wall (and the ceiling/floor) being carpeted with the same outline of a door - a rectangle, basically. In the center is a blue crystal ball upon a pedestal, which reads:

>The most common solution will lead you to reward

Touching the crystal ball produces a random effect to come out of one of the stone doors. Snakes could pour out of the ceiling one, or a portal to the elemental plane of water could open from another. Touching the rest of that room will produce other random, intruging effects. The pedestal will make a ticking noise fill the room, the right wall will pulse with a glowing purple light, and moving the pedestal itself will cause all of the doors to magically re-arrange.

The solution is to break the crystal ball open. Have a magic item in there or something.

>>54108857
Sounds interesting I'll play around with that, thanks.

How about a version whenever anything in a room is touched a mouth appears on that spot and just starts screaming. No traps, just lots and lots of screaming

Imagine

>>54108972
That's pretty great. The idea I had with it is to give as many red herrings as possible in the room, making them think they're all part of the puzzle when the real answer was what any aspiring DnD party should do.

Just fucking murder the thing.

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>>54109069
Yeah that's pretty clever to be sure. Psychological traps are better than physical ones imho

What a object that when touched makes the person hallucinate that they've settled down and raised a family. Years pass in their imaginations, they see their kids grow, they tend the farm with their spouse, get in arguments with neighbours, then get old and happy and retired, content beyond words. Only to be horribly sucked back into grim reality, with all those pseudo memories and experiences still lingering in their minds, impossible to shake.

>>54108237
You couldn't try to break the door?

>>54109169
Sounds like a quality time at the universe's best arcade game/food place

After a few traps to put the fear in them, lead them into a seemingly untrapped room with a stone dias in the center. On it, a shining pebble.

The pebble isn't trapped, but the party will assume it is trapped and leave it. Then, a few rooms later, they come into a room with a similar dias and an insert that matches the pebble they left behind. If they DID take the pebble and insert it, the floor opens up into an acid trap. If they didn't take it, the wonder of what could have been will torture them.

>>54109412
Oh shit you're right. Damn I thought that was an original thought.
Ok, how about curse that makes you see out the back of your head but blinds your forward vision.

Or one that makes a new nose grow on your lower back, just above the tailbone

A large bookshelf that compels the reader to read every book on it non stop in the pursuit of knowledge. There are a few skeletons laying around from people who have died from thirst/starvation.

>>54109494
Toiler humor is the crutch of a lesser comedian, and the first one is cool conceptually but would suck for the player.

How about a curse that makes you deconstruct anything you put sufficient force against? Open a door? It explodes into four cords of wood and a few iron lumps. Grab a rope? It becomes a pile of unharvested hemp. Brace yourself against a wall? Roll to dodge the ensuing avalanche of quarry boulders.

>>54109592
Traps by their nature do tend to suck for the player.

How about every time you sneeze an effect similar to the Thunderwave spell occurs in a 10 ft radius around you.

Every time you talk there's a slighlty dissonant echo, or your speech is out of synce with your lips.

Your hands are constantly moist.

I like this brain-storming.

Brain-storm: a curse that gives an electric shock everytime you remember you have it

What about the old sovereign glue on a treasure underwater trick?

Hell just a bottle of sovereign glue with a spell on it so it looks just like a healing potion.

>>54107037
>A trap designed so that disarming it causes another, just as unpleasant, trap to engage.

>A trap that pops up one of the Symbol of [insert way that you get fucked over] in your face when you try to disarm it.

>A treasure chest in the middle of a hallway with a large red circle around it that you can only avoid stepping into by pressing up against the wall and sliding along it, and a clearly gnawed on skeleton on the ground in front of it. The chest is not actually a mimic, but the walls bond with any leather or metal that touches them and the wearer is stuck to the wall until they either strip or are chiseled out.

>>54107037
A trap that wipes your memory of the last 5 minutes, and whenever you try to remember what was wiped, you're overcome with a feeling of intense terror.

>You see a long corridor ahead of you
>You trigger, but manage to avoid falling into, a lava trap built into the floor
>Now a solid 15 feet of the floor from wall to wall is lava
>Easy enough to jump so long as you don't completely botch the check
>Take a flying leap, gonna make it
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https://annarchive.com/files/Grimtooth%27s%20Traps.pdf

A room with no doors but the one they enter from, all that is left on the ground is a note that reads:

"There is no moving forward, except for back tracking"

They have to walk out the door they came in through backwards

How about a trap trap?
Have him appear as a damsel to be rescued and have them rescue him easily. The catch is that he tags along but is a clumsy burden that gets caught in every other trap and needs to be rescued again and again and acting seductively.
He wont be needed to finish the adventure and if a character falls in love with him reveal him to be a trap.

>>54107037
Traps are gay.

As they enter the room they are greeted by rotund, bearded man seated at a table on which several sheets of paper, dice, and a map are placed. The characters have to play a mini-campaign to defeat a bad guy in order to proceed.

>>54109412
>the universe's best arcade game/food place

What did he mean by this?

>not just flying/climbing the tower and entering the upper room

i fucking hate puzzles and traps.

Trap that teleports a PC into a jail cell and teleports a doppelganger in the exact same location and establishes a mental link between the two, making the PC control the doppelganger until the enemy chooses otherwise. The Doppelganger is played by the PC who doesn't know they are a copy. When most appropriate, the GM seized control of the PC and betrays the party. Alternatively, doppelganger dies to another trap and PCs freak out over their companion having been a shapeshifter all along.

>>54108857
>the most common solution
Before I opened the spoiler I thought it was going to involve water.