Post
by BenevolentDevil » Wed Jun 22, 2016 9:54 pm
By and large, the BEST trap I ever encountered on ANY server I ever played on was a non-damaging trap, that "splashed" paint onto sneakies and others, changing their clothing colors and rendering then visible until washed off or tailor corrected.
It rendered invisible, HiPs, and Hide , visible prematurely.
Most of there "traps" were via trigger, that were actually quite difficult ( not impossible ) to detect. Placed in areas that made sense , like before a room , in a corridor before a known monster encounter spawn ...
of course, for most warrior based characters , it was simply a minor annoyance, but tended to balance some of the hiding and invisible characters , trying to by pass danger, or sneak attack boot damage baddies.
You couldn't "recover" those traps, but could disarm them if "discovered" in normal means.
___________________
Me personally, I dislike NWNs and 3rd edition "traps" , and how poisons are done as well.
All traps in 2nd edition were either deadly , or non-deadly but punishing in other ways ... like falling down a pit , might not kill or damage you ... but left you stranded in a non-inescapable room , or on another dungeon level entirely.
Poisons in 2nd , didn't do ineffective ability score drops , it was save or die , and some even if saved still did damage. Gave reasons to fear poisons , and toxins ...
3rd edition, seemed to water down the importance and means of those immersive tools were used.
