Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[BluSponge]

I have Perilous Places. It's a good supplement. However, most of the material on traps can already be found in a variety of SW books: the fantasy bestowed toolkit, pulp GM toolkit, and the SK book, perhaps even other sources. It's pretty much book standard at this point.

But don't let that sway you. The book is pretty fantastic. Waiting for volume 2.

Tom
_________________
Lewisville Public Library Roleplaying
You control the character. You make the story. You are the legend.
The only limit is your imagination.

[77IM]

A while back I wrote a post on Traps that I am still pretty proud of:
http://www.peginc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26783&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20#273118

TL;DR Traditional "save vs. damage" traps are booooooooooooring. A trap is interesting only if the players have some decisions to make. Decisions = Interesting. To make a trap that requires player decisions, either a) make the trap easy to spot, but tricky to circumvent (requires more effort than just "make a Lockpicking check"), or b) make it so the trap, once spring, is tricky to get out of.

-- 77IM
_________________
Stuff I made: Arcane Abilities · Talent Edge · Savage Fading Suns · Savage Wuxia!

[Lord Karick]

Reading this post suddenly put me in mind of the landmine. The PC puts his foot down and click. You're aware of a mechanism being armed. How to get away without setting the trap off?
_________________
Visit Tales from Karickbridge on Obsidian Portal, oh and Savage Legend - The Blog

[Pariah74]

[Lord Karick]

Ok, come up with an idea for a room trap for my group based on the Japanese "Hashi" puzzle format.

As the party walks into the room there's a rusty screech as a rather solid portcullis drops down behind them, cutting off all retreat. A nasty GM might want the room to start filling with gas at this stage, or it's a steel door instead of a portcullis and water flows in, or a difficult-to-destroy stone statue, etc.

In the middle of the room is a pedestal with a grid in it complete with pairs of rivulets between a series of numbers in the grid and valves which can be twisted to flow across or down. There is a round hole in the side of the pedestal with a square indentation inside.

Also present somewhere in the room are a handle with a square peg end and a source of mercury (e.g. silvery layer at the bottom of a pool, though how are they going to get it out).

The portcullis can be lifted by filling mercury into the correct rivulets and charging up the device.
_________________
Visit Tales from Karickbridge on Obsidian Portal, oh and Savage Legend - The Blog

[samuraicrab]

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/101744/Diabolical-Traps---The-Maintenance-Mummy

That trap series is so cool and is made for savage worlds to boot.

[greyseerco]

[Snate56]

Or the portcullis comes down and the room starts to fill with water...
That's what you get when you go with the lowest bidder.




SteveN
_________________
"We've got a blind date with destiny... and it looks like she's ordered the lobster." <The Shoveller>

[Lord Karick]

The players come up against a wall with a mural depicting the months (e.g. a tree at various time of the year). Each of the months has a little alcove that could hold a candle.
Separately they find a note:
"The following will illuminate your way:
April may be duly august, but June will march in."
Lighting a candle in each of the alcoves for March, April, May, June, July (duly!) and August will cause a secret door to open.
_________________
Visit Tales from Karickbridge on Obsidian Portal, oh and Savage Legend - The Blog

[Snate56]