What's the range to build a snare?

[Garrise]

I've only seen that a snare is built within 5-foot square, but what's the range?

I think a character must build a snare in an adjacent square, is that right?

[Zwordsman]

I'm pretty sure its built adjacent to you.

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

"Within your reach," I should think. So adjacent if you're Small/Medium, but optionally a bit farther away if you're bigger.

[SuperBidi]

I think it's in your square. If there's nothing about building it on an adjacent square, I won't make up with this rule.

[Squiggit]

SuperBidi wrote:

I think it's in your square. If there's nothing about building it on an adjacent square, I won't make up with this rule.

The rules don't actually specify at all either way. Only that a snare is crafted in a 5-foot square and can't be moved once placed.

To make it more confusing, snares are consumables and consumables can be crafted in batches of four at a time... I guess there's no rule against having multiple snares in the same square.

[Zwordsman]

I feel like if they were built in your square, it would conflict with the triggers of anything in the square. Taking Ranger's feat line for instance, 3 actions to make (and they have to be done at once baring GM allowing over multiple turns).

So it sort of has to be next to you, or you'd immediately trip it

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I never noticed that batch detail. Which is indeed weird as you can't pre-craft them techicnally.

[Uchuujin]

I dunno, with the batch crafting could you place snares in up to four adjacent spaces with the same actions? That would use up a lot of resources, but could allow you to cover and area a lot quicker.

[Squiggit]

Zwordsman wrote:

So it sort of has to be next to you, or you'd immediately trip it

Nah. Snares trigger when a creature enters the square. If you're already in the square you can't fulfill that triggering condition.