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PRINTED IN CHINA Credits 1 Preface 2 A Word From Grimtooth 5 Trap Mechanics 7 Section One: Room Traps 12 Section Two: Corridor Traps 54 Section Three: Door Traps 108 Section Four: Traps Bazaar 126 Section Five: Dungeon of Doom 144 Last Trap 214 Index 216 Traps by Challenge Rating 219 Legal Appendix 222 WARNING! Unauthorized disclosure of this material may contribute to the unjusti- fied survival of adventurers, delvers, and player characters… and may result in serious damage to the deadly reputation of the Game Master. Greetings, and welcome to my book of traps — well, it will be my book of traps once I’ve taken care of those meddling Necromancer guys. Assembled herein are some of my favorite traps, gathered from all my many previous books and presented for your approval. These traps are the work of a host of distinguished con tributors — each a DM extraordinaire. In short, I feel that you’ll find this to be the most entertaining collection of traps you’ve ever laid eyes on. Besides, if you don’t like my book, I’ll rip your lungs out. I have organized this volume into easy to distinguish chapters. This will better facilitate in serting traps into your own pits and tunnels. Plus, I’ve included my own special Traps Bazaar as well as a key to the most deadly trap filled dungeon of all time — the Dungeon of Doom! To give you a general gauge by which to determine approximately how destructive a trap is, I’ve assigned to each trap a “Deadliness Rating”: a series of skulls printed with the trap in ques tion. The more skulls you see, the deadlier the trap. Yeah, yeah, I know. “Third Edition” uses CRs for traps. Well, this is my book so we are doing it my way! No wussy CR’s for this troll. Skulls. Get it? SKULLS! You will find that the traps in this book range from wounding egos and broken fingers to causing almost certain death. In fact, I’ve heard that some of you think my traps are too deadly. TOO DEADLY???!!!? What? How can a trap be too deadly? Most of these traps, having been designed by mere mortals, aren’t deadly enough. At times I am left to wonder why I even bother to share my wisdom with you, when you so callously ignore it. All right, I’ll accept the fact that some of you have twisted ideas about how to administrate a dungeon. Newfangled ideas about delvers actually escaping with their lives, and stuff like that. To each his own, I suppose, but if you’re going to be a maverick, then you’ve got to blaze your own trails. Don’t ask me to make my traps less deadly Now isn’t that a fresh idea? Bet you can’t find a rule for that in your hardbacks. You see, these traps are now yours you don’t need special permission or a membership card to change them to your liking. You certainly don’t need… permissionchange them from yourself. those Coastal Wizards. Use your imagination. Use these traps any way you want to. That’s right, you can increase or decrease the “punch” of a given trap by altering its consequences. This will depend upon your mood and circumstances, naturally. By filling a pit with an obnoxiousEsmelling green dye instead of boiling oil, you have altered the entire trap of monkeying around, you should be able to make any of the traps in this book leap through hoops for the edification and bemusement — of yet delvers the delivery who journey system through remains your the dungeons. same. With a modicum I won’t come after you if you do change some. But if I ever receive another letter about how my traps are “too deadly,” I’m going to hand some wimp his head. Is that clear, human worms? Grimtooth will not be bothered again! After all, my traps are perfect as is. You’d have to be some sort of pinhead to want to change them. Besides, killing isn’t really the point. Any fool can kill adventurers with incredible ease, and perhaps my traps have merely given them new and more complex weapons. If this is true, it is a pity. I have found that it’s not nearly so much fun to kill as it is to terrify. The most delicate and vulnerable part of any delver cannot be armored; it cannot be strengthened by magic or regrown after drinking a potion. I speak, of course, of the adventurer’s ego. All too often it is forgotten and left unmarred by DMs who scarcely deserve such an honored title. It is to the pursuit of ego shredding that this volume of traps is dedicated. Thus, without further ado, I hereby present my book of traps. Prepare to discover the joys of inflicting ethereal as well as physical damage! Steel cuts well, but ridicule cuts deeper, and the scars, while invisible, hurt nonetheless. Enjoy it or die, mortal. The Troll is Back! Note About Arrangement of Traps: I just got a note from the production department that complained the traps in this book weren’t arranged in alphabetical order in each chapter.