The ultimate resource for creating and using traps in your 5th Edition games! 250+ pre-built traps plus a random trap generator!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Level 13-16 Playtest -- 2-Day Delay
over 4 years ago
– Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 02:30:31 AM
Hello everyone!
Megan here again! To those of you in the States, I hope you all had a lovely long Labor Day weekend filled with happy relaxation (and hopefully some gaming!) To those of you outside of the States, I hope you had a lovely weekend regardless!
A Quick Update on the Level 13-16 Playtest:
Although the Level 13-16 playtest was slated for release today, it will now be postponed until Thursday this week. Here's why:
Nord is currently working on an overhaul of our website (woohoo!) We've been working on redesigning both the front-end and back-end of the website to make it more modern, user-friendly, and fast. Unfortunately, big redesigns like this often cause some veeeery fun technical hiccups you can't predict!
A particular issue we're currently sorting out is regarding users that checkout with free, PDF-only content. Because of this, even though this playtest content is done and ready to distribute, we currently aren't able to use our website to distribute it.
We considered distributing it to our backers through other means, but using our website allows us to track the number of downloads and keep each phase of playtest distribution easily in our records. Thus, we have decided to postpone this playtest distribution by a couple of days.
We foresee having this playtest ready for you all by this Thursday (September 5th). If we can get it to you sooner, we absolutely will! And if there are any signs that we can't use our website to distribute this playtest content by the end of week, we will use other means to distribute it to ensure that the content is in your hands ASAP.
This small delay will not affect the final Level 17-20 Playtest that is still slated for release on Monday, September 16th.
Thank you for your patience and understanding, and I look forward to being back in a few days with your deviously trappy playtests!
Happy Gaming,
Megan :)
Happy Labor Day (5 Days Early!)
over 4 years ago
– Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:32:37 PM
Hello, lovely Treacherous Traps backers!
It's Megan again, popping in for a short announcement before next week's playtest update.
As of right now, Nord's Super-Shiny-Ultra-FantasticLabor Day Sale has begun!
So sparkly... so enticing...
Spend $60 or more on products and enter code LABORSAVER2019 at checkout to receive:
10% offof your ENTIRE purchase,
AND
a FREE 3-5 session softcover adventure book ($10 value)!
Plus, you'd get 10% off and a free $10 softcover adventureon top of each of these lovely options! How stupendous! Just don't forget to enter code LABORSAVER2019 at checkout!
Have fun shopping, and a most joyous (early) Labor Day to you, adventurer!
Happy Gaming,
Megan
Level 9-12 Playtest Available Now!
over 4 years ago
– Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 11:25:23 PM
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Other Kickstarters we love!
over 4 years ago
– Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 02:16:12 AM
Hello, everyone! It's Megan again!
Don't be alarmed -- our regular playtest update is still set to be released this coming Monday! However, I'm popping in on this delightful Friday evening to let you all know about two wonderful Kickstarters being run by close friends of ours. If you're a fan of Nord's style of 5E supplements, then we're sure you'll love these too!
Out of the Box: Encounters for Fifth Edition
The first Kickstarter is a fantastic book of unique D&D 5e encounters from our friends at Nerdarchy! With new monsters, new magic items, plastic miniatures to accompany each encounter, and a foreword from The Almighty Matt Mercer himself, you can be sure this book will be a treasure. At over $225,000 in funding, it's obvious others feel the same too!
There are only 30 hours left to back this project, so we recommend you check it out ASAP!
Dossier Decks: Merchants, Mages, and Goblins
The second Kickstarter is a set of system-neutral NPC creation cards from SkeletonKey Games, most known for their Arcane Scrollworks series. These decks help to create unique, immediately usable NPCs for any fantasy tabletop RPG, with just a flip of three cards! With unique character art on every profile card, these new NPCs will add loads of creativity and immersive beauty to your games!
Plus, in very exciting news, Nord Games will be supporting SkeletonKey's fulfillment and warehousing of these new NPC card decks! Hooray for collaboration and spreading the love in this glorious gaming community!
This Kickstarter campaign has just begun, so go show these card decks some love to let SkeletonKey know you're as excited as we are!
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That's all for today, folks! Have a lovely weekend of gaming, and we'll be back in a few days with the Treacherous Traps Level 9-12 Playtest!
-Megan
Level 5-8 Playtest Available Now!
over 4 years ago
– Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 02:31:16 AM
Howdy, Traps Backers!
We're back this Monday with our bi-weekly Traps Playtest for you to dig into! This playtest ideally caters to parties of levels 5-8. It would seem the traps are getting more heinous and devious by the week... Yikes!
To Download the Level 5-8 Playtest:
Go to this link, add the document to your cart, and checkout.
Upon completion of your order (it will be $0.00), you will see a big blue button that you can click to download the document.
You can also find the download link in your email receipt, which you can use to redownload the playtest at any time.
Providing Playtest Feedback
If you would like to provide feedback for this or any upcoming playtests, leave a comment below and we’ll be sure to take a look at it.
If you’re able, we also strongly recommend joining our Discord server. Not only do our staff and community members hang out regularly in the Nord Lounge, but we’ve set up a channel specifically for Treacherous Traps backers!
Join us in the Traps Discord channel to give us any feedback throughout playtesting, or to just hang out! We’d love to chat with you and introduce you to the rest of our community.
Feedback/Questions from Playtest Levels 1-4
We got a ton of amazing feedback and suggestions from everyone on Discord for the first round of traps! Thank you all for the wonderful help and suggestions!
Included below are some comments/questions that we thought were worth including here:
Q: How do I implement these traps into my games?
A: The traps in these playtests are designed to be a jumping off point for DMs. Some have more details than others, but are designed to fit into any situation where a trap might be present. The Traps book will contain all sorts of ideas for how to flavor traps to fit your specific campaign, and how to alter them if necessary to be usable for you. Until then, however, we recommend letting your creativity run wild! Whether you use the traps as intended or simply take them as inspiration, whatever works best for you is the answer!
Q: Why don't the traps have more specific descriptions?
A: One of the toughest parts of creating universal traps is creating interesting content that is still usable for any DM running a D&D 5E campaign, in any number of settings and environments. This means that we often focus more on trap mechanics than we do the flavor of that trap although there is some of that too. This also helps us to ensure that our content will fit onto the tiny space that working with card decks allows. As mentioned above, we will provide as many ideas as we can on how to incorporate these traps into your particular world, but we're doing the best we can to walk that difficult line between usability and creative specificity!
Q: What if I have ideas for new traps or ways to modify the traps in the playtest?
A: Join us on Discord! There are loads of other playtesters like you sharing their thoughts with each other, and with our writers! Who knows what devious ideas you'll come out of those conversations with... Heh heh heh... Your poor players...
Future Playtesting
For those that want a reminder of our playtest release schedule, he's what we've got in store:
Monday, August 19th: 20 pre-made traps, levels 9-12
Tuesday, September 3rd: 20 pre-made traps, levels 13-16
Monday, September 16th: 20 pre-made traps, levels 17-20
Although this schedule allots for playtesting up to September 16th, we will be making every effort to release these playtests for you all even sooner. At the very least, you can be certain that each new batch of traps will arrive by the above dates.
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Thank you all for reading, and I'll see y'all for the Level 9-12 playtest on Monday, August 19th! :)
