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918 No. 918 ID: be860b

hey guys, i'm a novice DM and i'm running a 3rd level game via pbp, and one of my players made a gruwaar sorcerer with a create trap ring. I think it's one of those rings that gives you a level 1 spell and you can use it at will. He's using it to make scything traps that does 1d8 damage with bonus attack +8 and using them to fight the monsters etc. i think it's kind of unbalanced, what do you guys think?
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No. 919 ID: 273495

>create trap at will
sounds like a good spell to me.
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No. 920 ID: 093df5

Not really, it won't scale well and he could be using color spray and incapacitating many more monsters than 1d8 of damage could.
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No. 926 ID: 43a399

>>920

It's mot mechanically superior but it could be fun if clever. Now all he needs is the ability to make 10-100+ foot deep pits...
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No. 934 ID: 43a399

This has potential. C'mon tgchan! Put your collective neckbeards together!
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No. 943 ID: be860b

Well i just thought most of the fighters that are in the party have pretty much the same sort of attack. Around +8 attack and a just a little more than 1d8 damage. the sorcerer uses the traps in conjunction with sticky floor spell, so it keeps hitting monster :P since the trap keeps reloading

I have a question since the spell takes a full round to cast, would the ring take the same amount of time to activate?
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No. 956 ID: 43a399

>>943

Not sure it works that way guy...
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No. 964 ID: be860b

how is it supposed to work? I really don't know. so i'm wondering
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No. 1124 ID: b1c7af

>>943
>Sticky floor
?
I suspect that if it gets too abusive you could rule that not moving does not trigger the trap...
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No. 1125 ID: 0dc731

>CR 1 trap.
>Scything blade trap: CR 1; mechanical; location trigger; automatic reset

>automatic reset

It resets automatically, sure, but it has to be triggered again. Which means that it hits once, then resets, readied for another hit. Sticky floor keeps them there, but it doesn't cause them to set it off again; it's a mechanical trap, it's probably set on a pressure plate mechanism to make it run.

Just because you hold the plate down doesn't mean that it keeps going over and over. Part of the reset mechanism would be the weight being released from the plate to ready it again.

Now, if he was repeatedly triggering and releasing it himself(by placing the trigger plate outside of the area of the trap itself, say next to him) that would work.
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No. 1126 ID: 0dc731

>>1125
Well, I should mention that that's not really a rule, but it makes sense.

Unless it was set up like a clock, where as long as you were standing on it, it would keep running. But then, if that were the case, the reflexive jump backward that most people would do if they saw a blade coming at them from the wall would make it stop. Which means that they could just cut the blade off.
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