[Torg] Death Trap Rules

[Kansas Jim]

Sam writes:

> So I’m working on a few Nile Death Traps for this next years TORG game and would like to ask what you would consider some rules to remember when designing a Death Trap.

A useful resource on death traps in fiction can be found at TV Tropes:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathTrap

While it doesn't have rules per se, it does cover a lot of the common 
behaviors master villains employ with their death traps (though sadly 
they don't provide as much coverage on how the heroes escaped from the 
traps.)

> My previous attempt at a Nile Death Trap (The Combustion Chamber explained at the end of this message) lacked the “safe” way out. I wasn’t too worried about the group as they are quite dynamically resourceful, and they did succeed in escaping, but it was pointed out later I missed that apparent rule of having a way for the denizens of a Nile Death Trap to escape unharmed if “blah” is done/this path chosen/etc.

In my Torg games I found that my clever Nile death traps were too clever 
and what I thought was the obvious "safe" way out just wasn't obvious to 
the players. Over time I had to go more and more with cliched death 
traps that the players would recognize so that they'd know how their 
characters were supposed to escape from them.

-- 
Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
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