Timeline for Why might any self-respecting dungeon engineer employ a booby trap which isn't lethal?
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| Jun 6, 2020 at 7:23 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | This is what never made sense to be about Golgotha in Cryptonomicon: Goto Dengo created such a lethally impregnable hiding place that not even he, with all the civil engineering resources he later commanded, could retrieve the treasure except by melting it (thereby losing a lot of the value in the case of looted gold Buddhas). Didn't his superiors have some plan for coming back later? | |
| Jun 5, 2020 at 21:46 | history | edited | James McLellan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2020 at 17:33 | comment | added | James McLellan | I thought I'd try to re-frame this answer as a survey of acyuals dungeons and traps. | |
| Jun 5, 2020 at 17:25 | comment | added | John | as James points out a lock does not prevent access it just makes it take much longer hopefully to the point most people will decide its not worth it. the simplest non-lethal dungeon trap is a maze. Another good approach is the rust monster, destroy the equipment not the person. A lock that mangles the thieves lockpicks discourages further lockpicking. | |
| Jun 5, 2020 at 17:11 | comment | added | James McLellan | I dont leave the house unlocked. But my lock doesnt prick me with a poison needle if I forget to turn the key the correct way either. | |
| Jun 5, 2020 at 17:08 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | But non-lethal traps that don't do lasting damage will probably be little more than a time-consuming nuisance to adventurers. If I can trigger every trap and only get a few bumps and bruises, there's not much downside to springing the traps repeatedly until I learn to avoid them. If the traps don't maim people, they're just time-wasters. Nerfing your own traps because you might accidentally spring them yourself just seems like poor planning. Do you leave your house unlocked because you might forget the key? | |
| Jun 5, 2020 at 16:59 | history | answered | James McLellan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |