Go to Kobold Quarterly and check out my Water Hazards!

Excellent! I like these. Water traps are so much fun--as a DM, that is. :)

Congratulations on your latest publishing credit.

Excellent! I like these. Water traps are so much fun--as a DM, that is. :)

Thank you, I particular like the idea of drowning a person in one feet of water ;>

Nice work! I like the reversed water well especially.

Nice work! I like the reversed water well especially.

Thank you, you are not alone is your appreciation, posters at KQ concur.

TrickyOwlbear wrote:

Nice work! I like the reversed water well especially.

Thank you, you are not alone is your appreciation, posters at KQ concur.

I saw that. Welcome to the contributor fold!

Please check out the start of the Trapsmith's series at KQ!

Please check out the start of the Trapsmith's series at KQ!

Since I generally DM for the group at home, I like these ideas. Very nasty and fun!

Those are awesome Darkjoy! Great work, I think I'll be using one this week.

Don't forget to name your favorite trap at KQ, once named I'll work some magic to see if I can up the lethality.

And this week we are launching small trees at adventurers, and it is still a CR 1 trap!

And this week we explore the effects of gravity on PCs!

Go to Kobold Quarterly and check out my Water Hazards!

At last! After all these millennia I have his truename...'Maurice of Female Horses' Waha!ha!ha!ha! Your soul is mine!

Darkjoy wrote:

Go to Kobold Quarterly and check out my Water Hazards!

At last! After all these millennia I have his truename...'Maurice of Female Horses' Waha!ha!ha!ha! Your soul is mine!

1) Take a good look at my avatar......I trade in souls.

A more correct version would be: Maurice the Message, which is true, because I bring of message of dark joys.

You forgot the most important part of Pit Building:

APPLYING CAVE SUBSIDENCE TO PITS
It means that any unreinforced Pit wall will fail out to 35 degrees from bottom of any pit with 11' of width per 10' of depth Killing anyone stupid enough to dig one below 5' depth x physical height.

Most unfinished pit traps will have the maker of the Pit dead and buried at the bottom.

You forgot the most important part of Pit Building:

APPLYING CAVE SUBSIDENCE TO PITS
It means that any unreinforced Pit wall will fail out to 35 degrees from bottom of any pit with 11' of width per 10' of depth Killing anyone stupid enough to dig one below 5' depth x physical height.

Most unfinished pit traps will have the maker of the Pit dead and buried at the bottom.

Designers do not dig! We have minions do our hard work.

yellowdingo wrote:

You forgot the most important part of Pit Building:

APPLYING CAVE SUBSIDENCE TO PITS
It means that any unreinforced Pit wall will fail out to 35 degrees from bottom of any pit with 11' of width per 10' of depth Killing anyone stupid enough to dig one below 5' depth x physical height.

Most unfinished pit traps will have the maker of the Pit dead and buried at the bottom.

Designers do not dig! We have minions do our hard work.

Maybe not, but I bet you stand at the edge to look down...

Darkjoy wrote:

yellowdingo wrote:

You forgot the most important part of Pit Building:

APPLYING CAVE SUBSIDENCE TO PITS
It means that any unreinforced Pit wall will fail out to 35 degrees from bottom of any pit with 11' of width per 10' of depth Killing anyone stupid enough to dig one below 5' depth x physical height.

Most unfinished pit traps will have the maker of the Pit dead and buried at the bottom.

Designers do not dig! We have minions do our hard work.

Maybe not, but I bet you stand at the edge to look down...

Oddly enough, I think I can build a trap based upon subsidence.....

Thanks for the pit traps! I like the design notes you've been adding to the articles.

Any chance for some swinging blade traps in the future?

Thanks for the pit traps! I like the design notes you've been adding to the articles.

Any chance for some swinging blade traps in the future?

Those have been done and lurk in Wolfgang's inbox. I've modified every CR 1 trap in the SRD, but Wolfgang pointed out that more new ones (higher level new ones) was smarter than improving CR2 and up.

But you have an interest in swinging blades, eh? (subdued sinister laugh)

Great Work as always,

Wolfgang is right, it always annoyed me the pit traps stopped at CR 10.

I do like the idea of a pit trap that catches you just for looking into it :)

Steve Russell
Rite Publishing

This week, we explore the deadliness of passive defences and decapitating wires.

Burn! You've got to burn!

This week, we delve deep into the mysteries of fire

The hand of god reaches down to crush the heretic!

Amazing! Do these all appear in Kobold Quarterly? Or is it online-only? :(

Amazing! Do these all appear in Kobold Quarterly? Or is it online-only? :(

Most of what is listed here is available online, KQ8 features a few other traps by me and a new game element: Mind Traps

Okay, I'm looking some up now. Thanks for your hard work! These are fantastic.

Yep, Darkjoy's stuff is terrific, and I expect that he'll appear in print again (the mental traps article got a lot of fan mail).

I'm somehow especially pleased with this week's Hand of God trap. Maybe because it's so Indiana Jones-ish.

Yep, Darkjoy's stuff is terrific,

YAY!

and I expect that he'll appear in print again

YAY!

(the mental traps article got a lot of fan mail).

Fanmail! This really blew me away, I am still smiling when I think of the fact that my 2 page article got fanmail.

I'm somehow especially pleased with this week's Hand of God trap. Maybe because it's so Indiana Jones-ish.

It has that cinematic feeling eh? You can just picture it playing out during play ;>

The Corridor of Remembrance can be found at Kobold Quarterly!

Check it out.

The refuse pit, final resting place for defeated adventures. Go to KQ to check it and other articles out.

I love tuesdays.

You'll be happy to know that Darkjoy has another round of 3 or 4 more deadly traps for the rest of August.

After that, maybe we'll just print them in Kobold Quarterly.

You'll be happy to know that Darkjoy has another round of 3 or 4 more deadly traps for the rest of August.

After that, maybe we'll just print them in Kobold Quarterly.

Make that 4-5 ;->

The plane of shadow is one of D&D's best creations, it just gives and gives....

Behold! Shadowspores!

Behold! Shadowspores!

That's quite innovative, Darkjoy. I see lots of possibilities with shadowspores.

This week a shout-out to one of my favorite webcomics: The skull-on-a-rope trap.

Cool! That's definitely something I could see Golarion goblins employing as a trap.

Cool! That's definitely something I could see Golarion goblins employing as a trap.

Ever since reading PF1, with the introduction of Golarion's goblins, I firmly believe that those homicidal maniacs will employ every tactic, even using a skull-on-a-rope.

Maybe I should do a few more traps that are goblin inspired?

Smoke and Mirrors, goblin style. Insane and deadly, the perfect combination.

Smoke and Mirrors, goblin style. Insane and deadly, the perfect combination.

Once again, a neat, nasty, goblin trap. Thanks, Darkjoy!

Good stuff, Darkjoy. :)

Boulders and crushing bones

Swinging Blocks of Doom! It features art by Marc Radle.

Swinging Blocks of Doom! It features art by Marc Radle.

Cool!

The long awaited sequel to water hazards is HERE!

Not that people were requesting it, but it is there nonetheless ;>

Another great set of water-based trap, Darkjoy! I like them.

Death by poison

The Pathfinder conversion would result in a very high DC for the poison due to overdose.

Dismemberment, such an underused concept.