kengr

Being bored, and the TML being down, I figured I'd post a few Evil GM ideas.

These are sort of an odd mix of fantasy & SF stuff. The sort of thing I was tempted to use in my old D&D game. Then again, my world had had contact with a high tech civilization a few millennia back.

I'll give them in the "fantasy" mode, but only minor changes make some of them usable in a "tech" setting (say anything from the 1800s on)

Evil traps:

Giant, powerful magnets. Think of the rare earth magnets we have now. Now make one the size of a refrigerator and set it in the wall or the floor.

The PCs in iron/steel armor will get close and be trapped. And in many sorts of armor, you won't be able to get out of it. not even by cutting the straps on plate armor. Chainmail? No way. Studded or scale mail, maybe. If you've got a bronze dagger and a *lot* of time to cut the leather backing. And assuming that the pressure on the trapped person hasn't suffocated or been crushed (the side of the armor farthest from the magnet will be attracted to the magnet too, meaning that chain, studded, scale, etc will be crushing the wearer).

Also, if powerful enough (and they have to be *really* powerful to be able to trap those 18(00) strength characters) they'll deflect arrows and crossbow bolts because of the steel heads.

I recommend nicely polished floors so that the victim can't get traction to try to resist the pull. :-)

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