Treacherous Traps Deck Level 5-8 (5E)
Treacherous Traps Deck Level 5-8 (5E)
Save time while prepping or grab traps on the fly! Inside you'll find 50 premade trap cards to challenge your level 5-8 party, ranging from minor setbacks to deadly threats.
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So easy to use and modify to the terrain for encounters. I just pick a couple I like the look of and use them as a guide when players either come up against something or are being too complacent :D
It's an easy way to spice up an adventure
The Treacherous Traps cards are great and highly recommended.
https://nordgamesllc.com/products/treacherous-traps-deck-level-5-8-5e
01 Technical review
Deck arrived with a mini 12 page user's guide. Its very thorough!
The cards suffer from ther own lack of advertising. It is great quality card stock [Think Bicycle Deck just ever so slightly thinner]. The print is full of vibrant colours. They are plastic coated, so will be splashproof. They actually look waterproof not splashproof. None of this seems obvious from the store entry.
The card layout is incredibly compact without looking tiny or squashed. Follow link provided to see an example of the card.
Notable features from the cards:
Nice clear fonts, great flavour text, the damage on the cards I read were consistent with the DMG 2014 & 2024 [nice] and XGtE, the concept is really clear and the mechanics clearly explained. There is so much to like about these cards.
The DC's I checked felt bang on for levels 5 - 8 traps. That said you can bring the save in line with your game.
02 In game review
The cards are nice and varied. Mostly boilerplate traps but imaginately titled and great flavour text.
They removed all the work out of creating a trap for the table. As mentioned they line nicely with both DMG's and XGtE [or the ones I read anyway].
To badly misquote Lord of the Rings "Looks like traps are back on the menu boys!"
So overall, very excellent.
Yeah, I would buy these on an item. I like the idea of these cards, but using them in a live game as a random encounter is way too dangerous. They should not be used that way without considering your characters and such.