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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9254863" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>Agreed, realistically in actual play deploying traps as a 5e gm just feels like a waste of everyone's time. I say that as a gm who has in the past used them for amazing results like <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/skilled-play-or-role-play-how-do-you-approach-playing-d-d.677205/post-8155960" target="_blank">this</a>, but that 100% depends on forcibly teaching the players to take the metaphorical baton and run with it with zero support from the system&rulebooks for either side of the gm screen. The whole thing collapses into a multi mile car pileup or an annoying rail roaded QuickTime event where the gm tells a story if the players don't confidently take off like Usain bolt without stumbling even a tad the second they get offered the baton by their gm. Back in3.xI could tell them they guess it's an insane DC & show them the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/giving-an-ad-d-feel-to-5e.679228/post-8241363" target="_blank">dm's best friend</a> entry to get the ball honestly rolling with interest, but oing that with 5e tends to provoke a "<em>I want to play 5e not some other edition, wotc playtested what's fun & must have had a reason to leave that out</em>"* flavor of active willful refusal</p><p></p><p>* I put that in quotes because it's very close to what I had a player once say when I tried it after shooting down "I want to roll x".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9254863, member: 93670"] Agreed, realistically in actual play deploying traps as a 5e gm just feels like a waste of everyone's time. I say that as a gm who has in the past used them for amazing results like [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/skilled-play-or-role-play-how-do-you-approach-playing-d-d.677205/post-8155960']this[/URL], but that 100% depends on forcibly teaching the players to take the metaphorical baton and run with it with zero support from the system&rulebooks for either side of the gm screen. The whole thing collapses into a multi mile car pileup or an annoying rail roaded QuickTime event where the gm tells a story if the players don't confidently take off like Usain bolt without stumbling even a tad the second they get offered the baton by their gm. Back in3.xI could tell them they guess it's an insane DC & show them the [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/giving-an-ad-d-feel-to-5e.679228/post-8241363']dm's best friend[/URL] entry to get the ball honestly rolling with interest, but oing that with 5e tends to provoke a "[I]I want to play 5e not some other edition, wotc playtested what's fun & must have had a reason to leave that out[/I]"* flavor of active willful refusal * I put that in quotes because it's very close to what I had a player once say when I tried it after shooting down "I want to roll x". [/QUOTE]
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