WWAAS Metagame knowledge of traps can make the game awkward. I’ve maintained in the past that the best traps are blatantly obvious and the trick is not detecting them but figuring out a way past them. (Ironically, my book of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Inherently Valuable Five-thousand gold pieces is a lot of money to spend on “ice”. With the silver piece being the standard currency, the baseline for the cost of labour, a single gold coin has the purchasing power of $500. To […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Obvious I think a lot of Dungeon Masters like traps. They’re a classic part of pulp fantasy and the genre and are fun for keeping parties on their toes. Plus traps are easy to justify in a 5000-year-old crypt than […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
