It's a Trap!
Jonathan Drain posts in his blog quite a few nifty trap ideas.
I enjoy thinking up traps, even if I don't get to implement them, and my creativity was spurred by Drain's post. I like the CR 1 razor wire across the corridor, but what if the razor wire was also a tripwire for a trap with a higher CR? The adventurers might sagely decide to disarm the razor wire so that they don't need to remember where it is, and make beating a hasty retreat safer, only to trip a second trap that they didn't even think to search for.
3rd September 2007 at 9.41 am
You're an evil genius.
I'd write more but some unknown evil person has rigged my laptop to explode after a certain number of keypr
3rd September 2007 at 10.51 am
Even if you don't lose a few fingers in the blast from the keyboard you'd better try not to breathe in the anthrax that was released in the explosion.
3rd September 2007 at 1.31 pm
How about a big painting of a spiked pit, with the caption "Ceci n'est pas une trap".
Then when you get closer, it falls off the wall onto your head.
3rd September 2007 at 2.09 pm
For 2D6 bludgeoning damage. Genius!
Or on the wall behind the painting, it reads 'Surprise! Ceci une Mimic.'
12th September 2007 at 5.13 pm
Link it with a CR5 falling block trap. "You fool! That was a load bearing CR1 razor wire across hallway!"