I did a few water hazards in April, but I’ve got a new water trap lurking in Wolfgang’s inbox.

Love the work Maurice.

I wanted to get your permission to re-post some stuff from here onto a site I am developing. You can see what I posted at http://sites.google.com/site/pathfinderogc/Home/community-creations

If you have any concerns I’d be happy to remove it.

Thanks!

It wasn’t your judgement that I was calling into question (I think you’re a lot better at this than I am, actually).

A lot of DMs and designers like to “game” CR or EL formulas to produce bastardly encounters with disproportionately low CRs, which I think is misleading to the casual dm. But if you really think CR2 is the best approximation then I appologize for the finger-wag. =)

true, breaking the rules is not an achievement but I honestly believe that this trap is not broken. I have done a few that obviously are and those come with a big warning sign.

I was actually aiming for a CR 1 rating but mechanicly that went awry. So the trap became CR 2, a high end CR 2 but still CR 2.

I love bastard-traps as much as the next guy, but I hate it when designers go out of their way to make a challenge that is “technically CR X” (but is actually more difficult).

Formulas for determining challenge rating are shaky to begin with. Breaking them is not an achievement. Please try to work with rather than against the CR system whenever possible.

1) “Oh, no, it’s a trap!” and
2) “Things just got so much worse!”

I have to admit it’s a great way to keep traps from being just a way to tick off some resources. Combining traps with monsters seems like a good way to put the fear factor into them.