D&D traps in Raiders of the Lost Ark

Cafe Society
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Ok, you dudes came up with some very good and inventive suggestions for my last thread. Big thanks!

Next week, I already know the film-Raiders of the Lost Ark. It’s for a scout/rogue type.

What I’d like to do is start with the traps in the prologue section of the film, the one where Jones is after the Idol. I am going to assume here that several posters are such huge film mavens, they can actually just list the traps. Of course, we start with the spiders (more a hazard than a trap) and end with the Big Ball of Doom.

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I believe right after the spiders, the first trap was a row of spears that slid out of the wall, triggered by the sunlight being broken. After that was they had tow swing across on the whip, then the floor with the blowdarts.

Any more?

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Here you go.

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Don’t forget the cobwebs!!!

But no, that pretty much covers it–unless you also want to call the door that slowly descends, between the swing pit and the sunlight spears.

And then, you have the Hovitos and then the swim toward the plane

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And the snake… I hate snakes…

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Well, in the prologue, there’s only one (Reggie)

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You’ll probably have trouble finding these books on short notice, but if you want to build up your GM library (and your players’ paranoia), take a look at Grimtooth’s various books. Each one has at least 100 traps, suitable for killing off those annoying PCs. On the downside, at least one of the books includes traps by Charles Manson.

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I remember the first book very well, it was deadly as well as hilarious.