5e Traps
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Traps
| Trap | Summary |
|---|---|
| Acid Sprayer | A pressure plate that sprays a liquid. |
| Adamantine Surprise | A pillar with a button that releases Adamantine warriors |
| Adomorn's Barrier | A magical hovering barrier highly resistant to damage. |
| Angel's Coffin | A beautiful bed that steals your soul if you sleep in it. |
| Angry Shadows (Haunt) | The darkness seems to be alive... and wrathful. |
| Arc Axe | An axe that is hidden around a corner, it swings upon the activation of a pressure plate. |
| Arcane Bolt Tower | Hurls wave after wave of arcane projectiles at targets it can see. |
| Atlas Ceiling | A shield that one must carry to safely traverse a hazardous room. |
| Atlas' Vengeance | A trap that deprives the party of one member for some of the dungeon. |
| Autonomous Sentry | A heavy crossbow mounted on a self-driven contraption. |
| Bloody Handprints (Haunt) | Bloody handprints slowly appear on a surface, one by one. Are they leading you...and if they are, do you really want to find out...? |
| Book of Life Stealing | This book makes you forced to read it and takes your soul. |
| Burning Box | Flame throwing room. The classic. |
| Carpenter's Table | An old carpenter's table that has been magically cursed. |
| Chest of Reflection | A fortified chest that reflects damage. |
| Clown Trumpet | Clowning around! TOOT! |
| Cold Spot (Haunt) | The temperature suddenly plummets below freezing. You can see cold from your breath. The area around you begins to ice over. It feels as if something, or someone...is watching you. |
| Comfy Chair | You sit in the comfy-looking chair. It feels comfy. It feels REALLY comfy! Roll a Wisdom saving throw. |
| Confusing Room | An empty room with strange, ever changing effects. |
| Cuban Water Trap | A dam which breaks when a trigger is tripped. |
| Demiplanar Arena | Ensnares creatures in an arena that can only be escaped by combat. |
| Devilish Doors | Ooohhhh do you have any bones good sir? |
| Door of the Weak | A door that is harder to open for the strong. |
| Doppelganger's Corridor | A magical corridor that puts you into a dimension where you must fight a Doppelgänger of yourself. |
| Egyptian Mummy | Ancient Egyptian magic meets hallways and doors to kill any trespassers. |
| Enchanted Blocks | Magic blocks that fling towards unsuspecting victims |
| Enchanted Sentry | A statue that knows but one spell, and it will spam it at your face every chance it gets. |
| Falling Cross Shaped Rock | SHIIIIIZZAAAAAAAA! |
| False Wire Dart Trap | A simple yet highly effective dart trap with a hidden second wire. |
| Fingerprick Cloning | Pricks you finger, sends your DNA to a mad scientist who clones you and you need to fight yourself. |
| Flammable Poisoned Acid | This poisoned acid is highly flammable and very destructive. |
| Flashbang | A trap that by using magic to create intensive light, blinds creatures temporarily and stuns them psychologically |
| Fool King's Sword | A cursed sword combined with a hubris test |
| Freezeflame Fog | A fog that is simultaneously scorching hot and freezing cold. |
| Freezing Goo | a goo trap meant to freeze the target |
| Gate of Stature | A gate which changes the size of those that can fit through it. |
| Ghoul Corridor | |
| Golden Poison Frog Trap | Aw, look, a cute little fro- AHH!! |
| Goo Blob | An invisible slime that catches unsuspecting adventurers. |
| Grappeler Symbiote | Powerful muscular tentacles that erupt from a bivalve shell and hold a target in place |
| Greater Death Spitter | Poison spewing symbiote trap |
| Grimoire of the Occult | A dark tome which maddens & enslaves those who read it. |
| Growing and Shrinking Door | It is just too little. |
| Harmful Antimeme | An unknown piece of writing that causes damage and disadvantages to those who view it. |
| Identity Crisis Fume | A magical mist that causes a temporary illusion concerning self. |
| Infinite Staircase | The stairway to nowhere. |
| Infinite Tunnel | Wasn’t I just barely there? |
| Kobold Rust Drop | Plate armor beware, you're in for a scare. |
| Leechrune | A magical rune that poisons a spellcaster's connections to The Weave. |
| Lexicanum Botanica | Magic Book that turns nearby creatures into shrubs. |
| Lightning Tentacle | A Powerful Tentacle which is coursing with lightning that stuns |
| Long Hallway | A long hallway, where those who walk get so bored they forget what they are doing and walk back. |
| Magnetic Floor | A trap that pins opponents and their weapons to the ground. |
| Memetic Mind Hazard | |
| Mixed Nuts | |
| Moose Attack | Death by moose! |
| Morbid Cage | A corpse in a cage imbued with powerful fear curses. |
| Mouse Trap | |
| Mutation Gas | A mist that causes creature cells to rapidly mutate. |
| Not Funny Bro | |
| Noxious Fume Puffer | This innocuous statue lets off lethally poisonous clouds of poisonous poison. Or something. |
| Obelisk of Many Things | A pillar taken from the realm of endor. All inspired by the tower of sauron. |
| Painless Death | A trap that deals damage slowly and painlessly. |
| Phase Flip-Flop | A magic plate that waits for inopportune moments, then inverts your Plane between Ethereal and Material. |
| Pit of Hunger | A trapdoor leading to a pit of mechanical teeth with an artificial stomach |
| Portable Pit | A flexible place-anywhere alternative to regular pits. |
| Punji Spike Pit | A covered hole with spikes. |
| Roguesbane | A fake trap with a trapdoor by the disarming mechanism. |
| Rune of Animation | A trap that makes the room practically come alive. |
| Rune of Warding | A modified glyph of warding, focused on disabling single targets. |
| Rust Chamber | A trap that rusts openly carried metal. |
| Self-Snuffing Torch | A devious torch that deprives you of light when you most need it! |
| Shadowed Ice Rune | A shadow that freezes all in its grasp. |
| Shrinking Cloud | A cloud of gas that causes those caught within it to shrink. |
| Slamming Pillars | Pillars designed to crush those that step on them against the ceiling. |
| Slime Floor | A magical floor made of a slime that looks like the surrounding floor. |
| Spike Trap | Ye olde classic; Exactly what it says on the tin. |
| Spike Trap, Variant | Lose ground makes you fall into spikes! |
| Spiked Barricade | A wood and metal panel that acts more as a deterent than a true killer |
| Stasis Snare | A trap that causes paralysis. |
| Statue of Thought | A statue that will fire a beam of energy at anything nearby until it solves a puzzle. |
| Stone Trap | a magic trap that turns people to stone |
| Stones of Betrayal | Enchanted Stones that cause rampant paranoia in whoever touches them. |
| Swinging Log | A log rigged to swing, impacting anything in its path. |
| The Floor is Lava | Sand that turns to lava when stepped on. |
| The Iron Juggernaut | A Juggernaut of magically infused iron, meant to crush & pulverize |
| The Test of Mephistopheles | A series of cunning arcane traps that work together cleverly, which is built to test arcane trap prototypes (by trying to kill the PCs, of course!). |
| Toppling Door | A massive gate that falls forward onto unsuspecting adventurers rather than opening conventionally. |
| Trap Bowl | A bowl with coins, and a liquid that dissolves flesh. |
| Trapped Trap Door | <Yup. A trapped trap door. Mmm hmm. |
| Tree Trap | turns you into a tree |
| Trip Wire | Trip Wire on trail |
| Trophy Room | A room filled with a strange assortment of magically animate, stuffed and mounted animals of all shapes, sizes, breeds and planer origins. |
| Tumble Room Trap | A room rigged to roll in a fixed direction. |
| Whinswits Wardrobe | A horrible wardrobe that can be good or bad depending on the situation |
| Wind Tunnel | A hallway that can be blasted with wind, flinging players backward and potentially into hazards or other traps.
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