Traps: Trip a touch trigger remotely?


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Hello!

If a party has identified a trap with a touch trigger, is there any reason it cannot be tripped with, e.g., a ranged weapon? What would be the AC?

All of the discussion I can find (perhaps I rolled below the target DC on my Knowledge (google) check) seems to stick with trap actions around Perception and Disable Device (bypass, disable, etc.). I can't find anything ruling out this crude solution but I also don't know what the AC would be.

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

A time-honored piece of equipment for dungeoneering adventurers is the ten-foot pole, and this scenario is exactly why. Activating a trap from two squares away is (more often than not) much safer than activating it only 5 feet away.

Unless of course, you want to throw a curveball their way, and have the trap's trigger affect a square 10 feet away. I bet some trapper's thought of it.

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Alayern wrote:

A time-honored piece of equipment for dungeoneering adventurers is the ten-foot pole, and this scenario is exactly why. Activating a trap from two squares away is (more often than not) much safer than activating it only 5 feet away.

Unless of course, you want to throw a curveball their way, and have the trap's trigger affect a square 10 feet away. I bet some trapper's thought of it.

Okay, so with the pole it's automatic because you can just careful move it until it touches?

What if you only have bolts or arrows? Certainly it's not as easy as targeting a square in general (AC 5). GM discretion for how small the touch target is?


AC 5 is AC10 with a dex 0 (-5 modifier).
You can furtherModify that for size - fine or diminutive maybe.

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber
PaleDim wrote:
Alayern wrote:

A time-honored piece of equipment for dungeoneering adventurers is the ten-foot pole, and this scenario is exactly why. Activating a trap from two squares away is (more often than not) much safer than activating it only 5 feet away.

Unless of course, you want to throw a curveball their way, and have the trap's trigger affect a square 10 feet away. I bet some trapper's thought of it.

Okay, so with the pole it's automatic because you can just careful move it until it touches?

What if you only have bolts or arrows? Certainly it's not as easy as targeting a square in general (AC 5). GM discretion for how small the touch target is?

GM Discretion is, ultimately, what you'd have to go with. Each different type of trigger would have different effective areas and thus, different AC's dependent on size. Also, not every trap could be triggered by making an attack. Magically triggered traps, for example. Or the pressure plate classic, as it wouldn't be triggered by a flimsy little arrow hitting it, it would need the weight of something roughly creature/person sized to trigger.

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dragonhunterq wrote:

AC 5 is AC10 with a dex 0 (-5 modifier).

You can furtherModify that for size - fine or diminutive maybe.

This is what I was looking for. Thank you!

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