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Spheres of Might
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Possessing this sphere grants you access to the ability to rapidly deploy temporary traps. You may make a Craft (traps) check with a DC of 5 to place a trap on any solid surface within your reach as a full-round action. This trap persists for 1 round per point that your check exceed the placement DC. The trap is placed in a 5-ft. square of your choice. For every 5 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess, you may increase this area by one 5-ft. square. All squares a trap occupies must be contiguous and you can not place two separate traps in the same squares. Entering a trap's space triggers the trap. The Perception DC to locate a trap is 10 + your Craft (traps) modifier. Trap talents that require a saving throw use your ranks in Craft (trap) instead of your base attack bonus when determining your saving throw DCs.
Traps are cobbled together from scrap, detritus in the environment, and random bits of string, springs, and other miscellany that have been assembled into easily deployed components. Any creature in possession of a trap bag is considered to have the required materials to build these temporary traps, preparing components during downtime and restocking it for negligible cost at regular intervals, though some talents may allow the use of more expensive components that must be tracked. At the GM’s discretion, some traps may be constructed from materials in the environment even without a trap bag.
You never set off your own traps unless you choose to. Creatures who you warn or who see you set a trap are aware of its location and gain a +5 circumstance bonus on Perception checks to notice the trap and Reflex saves and AC to avoid the trap. A trap may be removed as a full-round action with a Disable Device check with a DC equal to your Craft (traps) bonus +10. You always succeed on removing your own traps. You may choose to recover any expensive components or Alchemy sphere formulae used in a successfully removed trap.
If a trap is perceived, it can be targeted and destroyed by attacks without setting it off. A trap has hardness equal to your ranks in Craft (traps), AC equal to 10 + your ranks in Craft (traps), and 5 hit points + 5 hit points per 2 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess.
As long as you have martial focus, reduce the time required to set a trap from a full-round action to a standard action.
There are two basic types of temporary traps, snares and darts. A trap may only be triggered once unless otherwise noted. Trap sphere talents that allow for the use of expensive components allow for the component (alchemist fire, dose of poison, etc.) to be drawn as part of the action required to place the trap unless noted.
Darts
A dart trap is constructed of spring, twine, and usually a needle or other blade. A dart targets a line originating from one corner of one of the squares it occupies determined when it is set. This line extends out to Close range (25 ft. + 5 ft. per 2 ranks of Craft (traps) you possess) and stops after one creature is hit. When triggered, make a ranged attack roll against each creature in the line until one is hit. You may substitute your ranks in Craft (traps) + your Intelligence modifier for your base attack bonus + Dexterity modifier on this roll. The dart deals 1d6 piercing damage, increasing by 1d6 when your Craft (traps) ranks reach 3 and every 2 ranks thereafter, and has a critical threat range of 20 with a x3 multiplier. Some talents allow you to modify your darts. Each trap may only benefit from one (dart) talent. Some trap talents allow you to forgo dealing damage for benefits as defined in that talent.
You may forgo dart damage to expend an alchemical item (such as a tanglefoot bag), a thrown splash weapon (such as alchemist’s fire or acid flasks), or a dust (a potion containing a spell that affects an area) when making a dart trap to add the effects of that splash weapon to the dart. Resolve the attack versus touch AC. Items with an area of effect count their origin from the nearest corner of the struck creature’s space to the line of the dart’s effect.
You may apply injury poison to a dart as if it were a weapon after it has been set. While setting the trap, you may choose to forgo dart damage, instead expending a dose of a contact or inhaled poison as part of setting the trap. The dart then resolves its attack vs. touch AC. An inhaled poison fills its area as normal, centered on the struck creature’s square (or the first square targeted by the line, if the creature occupies more than one space).
Snares
A snare trap is constructed from rope, wire, and similar materials. A snare targets the first creature to enter one of the squares it occupies. A creature may avoid triggering a snare with a successful Reflex save; doing so leaves the trap untriggered and makes the creature aware of the trap and able to pass through that trap’s space(s) without further risk of triggering it. Some talents grant additional types of snares. Each trap may only benefit from one (snare) talent.
An alchemical item may be rigged to a snare trap. If a creature triggers the trap, the alchemical item is activated, targeting a grid intersection adjacent to the trap chosen when it is set. If the alchemical item is a thrown splash weapon, the triggering creature is affected by the item as if it were struck directly by it. Other small items such as dyes, dusts, vials of perfume, and other items with GM permission may also be attached to a snare trap as well.
An inhaled poison may be rigged to a snare trap. If a creature triggers the trap, the first square entered (the creature’s choice if there is more than one entered simultaneously) becomes the centerpoint for the inhaled poison.
When you first gain the Trap sphere, you gain the following snare:
Tripwire (snare)
A creature that fails its save against a tripwire snare falls prone. Once knocked prone, a creature is no longer at risk of triggering the trap in that square. This trap is not destroyed when triggered; instead the duration is reduced by 5 rounds per creature that fails its save. Running and charging creatures take a -2 penalty on their Reflex saves against this trap.
Trap Talents
Aerial Trigger [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
You can give your traps a trigger that extends to the air to affect flying creatures. Creatures up to 10 feet per rank in Craft (traps) over the area occupied by your traps can trigger them as normal.
If your trap would knock the flying creature prone, it is instead battered until the end of its next turn. If your trap entangles the flying creature and prevents it from moving from the triggering square, it is pulled harmlessly to the triggering square.
Aimed Dart [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
Increase the range of your dart traps to medium (100 feet + 10 feet per rank of Craft (traps) you possess). In addition, you may augment your darts with one Sniper sphere (snipe) talent you possess.
Alchemical Trap Master
When applying an alchemical item or poison to a trap, the save DC of the alchemical item or poison is equal to the save DC of this sphere if higher. You never risk poisoning yourself when applying a poison to a trap.
Combined Traps
You may increase the time required to place a trap by 2 steps (a move becomes a full-round, a standard becomes 1 round, and a full-round becomes 1 minute) and increase the DC of placing the trap by 5. Doing so allows you to apply a second (dart) talent to a dart trap or a second (snare) talent to a snare trap. Alternatively, you may place a dart and snare trap in the same space to be triggered simultaneously. If you possess the Trap Wielder talent and combine it with this ability, resolve each trap separately.
Crowd Pleaser [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
Whenever an enemy triggers one of your placed traps within your line of sight, you may make an Intimidate check to demoralize them as an immediate action. If you possess the Gladiator sphere, you may perform a boast instead as a free action that may be taken even when it is not your turn.
Dirty Traps [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
You may expend martial focus as an immediate action in order to place a Trap sphere trap in a viable square as part of a steal or dirty trick combat maneuver. You must be able to create the trap as part of the same action required to perform the maneuver in question and must still succeed on the check DC to set it up.
Expert Eye
Your experience in building and placing traps gives you insight into spotting and disarming them. You may use Craft (traps) in place of Perception when searching for traps and in place of Disable Device when disarming them.
False Trigger [Jester's HB]
When setting a trap, you may choose to make the trap a delayed trap. A delayed trap gains a +1 bonus to any attack roll it may make or DC it may have. This bonus increases by +1 for every 10 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess. The first time a trap would trigger, the trap does not trigger and makes an audible, obvious noise (such as a click).
Fool’s Retreat (stance) [Youxia HB]
While in this stance, whenever you perform a withdraw action, any hostile creature which threatens your starting square with a melee weapon must succeed at a Will save or give chase, attempting to move to a square adjacent to you by the end of their turn.
Opportunist
Creatures that are struck by your dart trap or that fail a save against your snare trap provoke an attack of opportunity from you. You may make this attack of opportunity with a ranged weapon provided the target is within your first range increment.
Persistent Trap
You may increase the time required to set a trap to 1 minute to increase its duration to 10 minutes per point that your check exceed the placement DC. You may only place 1 trap at a time in this manner, +1 per 4 ranks in Craft (traps). If you take this talent a second time, you may increase the set time to 10 minutes to increase duration to 1 hour per point that your check exceed the placement DC.
Rapid Placement
You may expend martial focus to reduce the time required to place a trap by 1 step (10 minutes becomes 1 minute, 1 minute becomes 1 round, 1 round becomes a full-round, a full-round becomes a standard, a standard becomes a move).
Razor Wire
When you place the tripwire snare, you may choose to have it deal 1d6 slashing damage + 1d6 at 3 ranks in Craft (traps) and every 2 ranks thereafter to the triggering creature. Alchemical items cannot be added to this snare. A razor wire snare otherwise functions as a tripwire snare.
Remote Trigger
As an immediate action, when a creature comes within the area of effect of one of your traps, you may trigger a trap. Additionally, when a creature succeeds on a Reflex save to avoid triggering one of your snare traps, you may force them to reroll the save as an immediate action. You must be within close range (25 ft. plus 5 ft. per 2 ranks in Craft (traps)) of the trap to use either ability.
If you select the remote trigger talent a second time, you may trigger your trap from medium range of your trap (100 feet + 10 feet per rank in Craft (trap)), and without requiring a creature to enter the area of effect for your trap. Lastly you may set your trap to trigger on a timer after a set amount of time after it is placed (but no longer than its base duration). If the trap can activate multiple times, you can set the time for each activation individually. [Apoc] Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
Scatter Trap [SA:MT]
When you place a trap, increase the area it normally occupies by an additional contiguous 5-foot space for every 4 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess (minimum 1).
In addition you can expend your martial focus when placing a trap to not have the spaces occupied by the trap be contiguous, but all must remain at least within close distance of one another (25 feet + 5 feet per 2 ranks of Craft (traps) you possess).
Sneaky Trapper [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
You know how to place traps in a discreet manner. When a creature has line of sight to and is within 30 feet of a trap you are placing, you may perform a Sleight of Hand check with a DC equal to 11 + the observer’s Perception modifier in order to place it without automatically making the observers aware of the trap’s existence, or granting them bonuses to locate or avoid the trap. If there are multiple observers within 30 feet, use the highest DC among them. If there are no creatures within 30 feet of the trap, you automatically succeed on this check.
Stop Drop And Control [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
You can place a trap as part of a withdraw action. The trap must be one that requires no more than a standard action to place, and must be placed in an unoccupied space you moved through. You do not provoke any attacks of opportunity when placing this trap.
Trap Door [SA:MT]
You can create a hidden trap door instead of a (dart) or (snare) trap. This door can be placed horizontally or vertically with a maximum area of 10 by 10 feet. This increases to 15 by 15 feet at 5 ranks in Craft (traps) and by an additional 5 feet for every 5 ranks thereafter.
This door depends on its surroundings and cannot be created freestanding. It is between 1 and 3 inches thick (chosen at the time of creation), with the AC and hardness of a normal trap you can create but possesses double the hit points. The door can be plainly visible or disguised within its environment requiring a Perception check to spot (with the DC of a normal trap). The door can be forced open with a Strength check opposed by your Craft (traps) DC +5.
The door is strong enough to support a large object or creature and increases the maximum size category it can support by 1 for every 3 ranks in Craft (trap) you possess. Objects made of stone or heavier substances count as one size category heavier, while soft objects such as cloth count as one size category lighter.
In addition when you create the door you can give it any of the traits from the list below. Unless otherwise stated a trait can be deactivated or reactivated as a standard action by you, or it can be disabled as if a Trap sphere trap by others.
- Lock: The door can be locked or unlocked by you as an immediate action. It can also be set to lock automatically after being closed.
- One Way: The door only allows one way movement. Going through it the other way requires forcing it open and cannot be deactivated or disabled.
- Reset: The door closes automatically after being moved through.
- Trigger: You can set the door to trigger an adjacent Trap sphere trap you created if opened (or closed).
- Triggered: The door can be set to open automatically depending on the size of the creature leaning or stepping on it (this can be finetuned to any range of specific size categories). Alternatively it can be set to open if a Trap sphere trap you created within close range is triggered.
A trap door requires 1 minute to craft and lasts for 1 hour. If you possess the Persistent Trap talent its crafting period can be increased to 10 minutes to last for 24 hours (and does not count towards the limit of the amount of traps you can have with the Persistent Trap talent).
Trap Finder [Conq. HB]
You can use Disable Device to disarm magic traps. In addition, you gain a +1 competence bonus to Perception checks to locate traps and to Disable Device checks, increasing by +1 for every 4 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess.
Special: If you possess the Expert Eye talent, you add the bonuses from this talent to Craft (traps) checks you attempt in place of Perception checks to locate traps and to Disable Device checks.
Trap Launcher [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
You’re capable of setting traps at a distance. When placing a trap with a creation time of a standard action or less, you may increase the DC to create the trap by 10 in order to place the trap within the first range increment of a ranged weapon you are wielding. This is considered a ranged attack and as such provokes attacks of opportunity and is subject to conditions that affect ranged attacks (such as wind).
If you possess the Sniper sphere, you may treat this talent as a (snipe) talent that allows you to shoot your traps directly at creatures. As part of a deadly shot, you create a snare trap that requires a standard action or less to create and fire it (this ignores the limitation of placing traps only within the first range increment of the weapon). A creature hit by the attack makes a Reflex save as normal to prevent triggering the snare, as if the snare trap originated from their square. As the trap is never set, creatures do not gain any bonus to AC or saves for seeing you set the trap. If a trap would usually activate multiple times, it only activates once. If the attack misses, the trap is destroyed.
Trap Wielder
Sometimes the heat of battle does not allow one to properly set and camouflage a trap. Instead of placing a trap, you may attempt to immediately apply it to a creature. Doing so requires the normal action for placing the trap. As the trap is never set, creatures do not gain any bonus to AC or saves for seeing you set the trap. You may poison a trap used in this way by spending the required action to poison a weapon no more than 1 round prior to using this talent.
A dart trap may be immediately triggered, originating its line from any corner of your square. This provokes attacks of opportunity as a ranged attack.
A snare trap may be employed against any creature within your natural reach and does not provoke an attack of opportunity.
Trapped Shield [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
You may place Trap sphere dart traps onto any shield (except a buckler) you’re wielding using a normal placement action. Whenever you are missed by a melee attack, you may trigger the trap as an immediate action, making the trap’s attack against the attacking creature. If you possess the Shield sphere, you may instead trigger the trap as a (deflect) ability.
Trapper’s Recovery
When a creature fails a save against or takes damage from your trap and you are aware of them doing so, you may gain martial focus as an immediate action.
Trapsmith
When crafting mundane traps, you may count your daily progress in gold pieces instead of silver pieces. Additionally, you may craft magic traps even without spellcasting ability using your ranks in Craft (traps) in place of your caster level. You may substitute a Craft (traps) check in place of a Spellcraft check when doing so.
Warning
Allies who can see and hear you never trigger your traps unless they choose to.
Dart Talents
Barbed Dart (dart) [Apoc]
Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Debilitating Talents
This dart deals 1 point of bleed damage per die rolled to the target. This bleed damage cannot be healed unless the dart is removed as a full-round action. The creature can remove the dart as a swift action, but doing so deals 1d6 points of bleed damage.
Blunt Dart (dart) [Apoc]
Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Debilitating Talents
This thick dart deals nonlethal bludgeoning damage and increases the dart’s damage dice by one step.
Deadly Dart (dart)
This larger dart deals slashing and piercing damage and increases the dart’s damage dice to d8. The dart’s critical threat range also improves to 19-20/x3.
Flash Trap (dart, snare)
When used as a dart, the target must make a Reflex save or suffer a 20% miss chance on all attack rolls for 1 round and dazzled for a number of rounds equal to your ranks in Craft (traps). At 10 ranks in Craft (traps), it may inflict the blinded condition rather than a miss chance.
When used as a snare, all creatures within 5 ft. of a corner of the triggering square of your choice must make a Reflex save or be blinded for 1 round and dazzled for a number of rounds equal to your ranks in Craft (traps). For every 5 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess, the area of this snare increases by 5 ft. If you possess 10 or more ranks in Craft (traps), the duration of the blinded condition also increases by 1 round.
Net (dart, snare)
When used with a dart trap, a creature that is struck by your dart must make a Reflex save or become entangled. You may forgo damage to resolve this attack against touch AC. This condition lasts until the creature succeeds on a Strength or Escape Artist check against the trap’s DC or destroys the trap via damage.
When used with a snare trap, the target is entangled and unable to move from the triggering square until it succeeds on a Strength or Escape Artist check against the trap’s DC or destroys the trap via damage.
Tethered Dart (dart) [EO3]
A creature that is struck by your dart must succeed at a Reflex save or be tethered to the corner chosen when placing a dart, and is subject to a drag combat maneuver, using your practitioner modifier and Craft (traps) ranks instead of your Strength and base attack bonus respectively, dragging them towards the corner’s square. Each round the target remains tethered, they are subjected to the same drag combat maneuver (attempting a new roll every time). The tether has 10 hit points plus 2 hit points per rank in Craft (traps) you possess, an AC of 5, hardness equal to 1/2 your ranks in Craft (ranks), and a Break DC equal to your Trap sphere DC. The target cannot move further away from the trap without first breaking the tether or succeeding at a drag or reposition combat maneuver against your Trap sphere DC + 5, pulling the trap along with them. If you possess the Trap Wielder talent, you can instead have the tether applied to yourself instead of a designated corner.
Snare Talents
Alarm Trap (snare)
Rather than producing an effect on the triggering creature, this trap instead creates a loud noise when triggered, clearly audible to all creatures within 60 ft. of the trap, +5 ft. per rank in Craft (traps) you possess. In particularly quiet places, this sound can be heard up to 3 time as far away.
Bamboozling Trap (snare) [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
A creature that fails its Reflex save to avoid this snare is treated as if it was successfully affected by a feint. This counts as you performing the feint for the purposes of Fencing sphere talents that depend on feinting a target. Non-humanoids with an Intelligence score of 1 or 2 get a +4 bonus to Reflex saves against this trap and mindless creatures are still immune. If you possess the Unlikely Feint Fencing sphere talent, reduce the bonus to saves non-humanoids with an Intelligence score of 1 or 2 get to their saves to +2 and mindless creatures are vulnerable to this trap but gain a +4 bonus to their Reflex save.
Bear Trap (snare) [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
A creature that fails its Reflex save to avoid this snare may not move from its current location unless it succeeds on a Strength or Escape Artist check against the trap’s DC or destroys the trap via damage. The affected creature also takes 1 bleed damage for every 8 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess (minimum 1). Treat this as an attack action performed by you for the purposes of Duelist sphere talents, such as dealing extra bleed damage, or determining which creatures are affected by this bleed (including (bleed) talents when applicable).
Brutal Traps (snare) [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
A creature that fails its Reflex save to avoid this snare is subject to a bull rush as if the trap successfully beat their CMD by 1 +1 for every 2 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess. This counts as you performing the bull rush as a standard action for the purposes of Brute sphere abilities (a trap deals 1d4 damage with a Strength bonus of +0 for talents such as Smash). Creatures targeted by this trap get a +1 circumstance bonus on their saving throw for each size category they are larger than Medium.
Disarming Traps (snare) [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
A creature that fails its Reflex save to avoid this snare is subject to a disarm maneuver as if the trap successfully beat their CMD. This counts as you performing the disarm maneuver for the purposes of Duelist sphere abilities that depend on you triggering the disarm. Creatures targeted by this trap get a +1 circumstance bonus on their saving throw for each size category they are larger than Medium.
Flash Trap (dart, snare)
When used as a dart, the target must make a Reflex save or suffer a 20% miss chance on all attack rolls for 1 round and be dazzled for a number of rounds equal to your ranks in Craft (traps). At 10 ranks in Craft (traps), it may inflict the blinded condition rather than a miss chance.
When used as a snare, all creatures within 5 ft. of a corner of the triggering square of your choice must make a Reflex save or be blinded for 1 round and dazzled for a number of rounds equal to your ranks in Craft (traps). For every 5 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess, the area of this snare increases by 5 ft. If you possess 10 or more ranks in Craft (traps), the duration of the blinded condition also increases by 1 round.
Foam Spray (snare)
When triggered, this trap sprays a fluid that hardens on contact with air, filling the space of the trap to a height of 5 ft. with an opaque foam. This height increases by 5 ft. for every 5 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess. Creatures occupying a space filled with foam are entangled until they succeed on a Strength or Escape Artist check with a DC equal to the trap’s DC or the foam is destroyed. Alchemical foam has a hardness of 0 and each 5-ft. cube has hit points equal to your ranks in Craft (traps) x3.
Magic Trigger (snare)
You may rig a magic item that requires activation to be triggered by your snare. If the item requires a longer activation time than the time that would be required to place the trap, then the time required to place the trap increases to match the item activation time. If activating the item requires a Use Magic Device check, this check must be made as part of setting the trap. This trap is not destroyed when triggered. Each time it is triggered, it consumes one charge from the item (if it is a charged item; single use items are counted as possessing 1 charge for this purpose), destroying the trap when the remaining charges reach 0.
The duration of the trap also decreases by 5 rounds each time it is triggered. Once the trap is destroyed, any item used may be recovered, less any charges used. If the magic effect targets a creature, the triggering creature is targeted. If it targets an area, the effect originates from one corner of the square from which it was triggered (your choice). Shapes such as cones or lines must have their orientation determined when the trap is placed.
Net (dart, snare)
When used with a dart trap, a creature that is struck by your dart must make a Reflex save or become entangled. You may forgo damage to resolve this attack against touch AC. This condition lasts until the creature succeeds on a Strength or Escape Artist check against the trap’s DC or destroys the trap via damage.
When used with a snare trap, the target is entangled and unable to move from the triggering square until it succeeds on a Strength or Escape Artist check against the trap’s DC or destroys the trap via damage.
Noose (snare)
A creature that fails its Reflex save to avoid a noose snare may not move from its current location and is unable to breathe unless it succeeds on a Strength or Escape Artist check against the trap’s DC or destroys the trap via damage. For every 4 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess, an affected creature is treated as though an additional round passed each round it remains in the snare for the purposes of how long they can hold their breath. Additionally, any spell the creature attempts to cast suffers a 50% spell failure chance if it requires verbal components.
Scratching Post (snare) [Catgirl HB]
When triggered, this trap erects a distracting, scratchable pole which occupies the nearest unoccupied square to the triggering square. The scratching post is an object which remains in that square for 1 minute per rank of Craft (traps) you possess and the square it occupies is treated as difficult terrain. The creature which triggered this trap must immediately attempt a saving throw or suffer the scratching post’s penalties.
Whenever an enemy within close range (25 feet + 5 feet per 2 ranks of Craft (traps) you possess) who can see the scratching post makes an attack roll that does not include the scratching post, that creature must succeed at a Will saving throw or take a penalty on all attack rolls they make until the start of their next turn equal to -2 - 1 per 5 ranks in Craft (traps). If the creature successfully saves against the scratching post’s effect, they are immune until the start of their next turn. If there are multiple scratching posts, a creature only needs to succeed at a single saving throw to resist their allure (against the highest DC).
Scratching Post
The scratching post is a wooden object approximately 3 to 5 feet tall with the following statistics:
Hit Points 5 + 3 per rank in Craft (traps)
AC 5 + 1 per rank in Craft (traps)
CMD 15 + 1 per rank in Craft (traps)
Hardness 5
As an object, the scratching post cannot succeed at saving throws and can otherwise be interacted with as a normal object. However, the scratching post is firmly grounded and difficult to move. The materials it is constructed from are scavenged and temporary, and cannot be salvaged from a broken trap or after the trap’s duration expires.
Skunk Smoke (snare)
When this trap is triggered, a 5-ft. radius from a corner of your choice of the triggering square is filled with noxious smoke. The smoke obscures all sight, including darkvision, beyond 5 ft. A creature within 5 ft. has concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance). Creatures farther away have total concealment (50% miss chance, and the attacker can’t use sight to locate the target). Any creature that is in the fog must make a Fortitude save or be sickened until 1d4 rounds after they leave the smoke. A creature that saves successfully must save again on any turn they remain in the smoke. If you have at least 10 ranks in Craft (traps), creatures that fail their save are instead nauseated.
For every 4 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess, the smoke remains for 1 additional minute. A moderate wind (11+ mph) disperses the smoke in 4 rounds; a strong wind (21+ mph) disperses the smoke in 1 round.
Techno Trigger (snare) [Inv. HB]
You may rig a technological item (including technological items, gadgets, inventor inventions and other such things determinable by the GM) that requires activation to be triggered by your snare. If the item requires a longer activation time than the time that would be required to place the trap, then the time required to place the trap increases to match the item activation time. If activating the item requires a skill check of some sort, this check must be made as part of setting the trap. This trap is not destroyed when triggered. Each time it is triggered, it consumes one charge from the item (if it is a charged item; single use items are counted as possessing 1 charge for this purpose), destroying the trap when the remaining charges reach 0.
The duration of the trap also decreases by 5 rounds each time it is triggered. Once the trap is destroyed, any item used may be recovered, less any charges used. If the technological effect targets a creature, the triggering creature is targeted. If it targets an area, the effect originates from one corner of the square from which it was triggered (your choice). Shapes such as cones or lines must have their orientation determined when the trap is placed.
Terrain Trap (snare) [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
When a creature fails its Reflex save to avoid this snare, the snare creates an area of difficult terrain in a 10-foot + 5 feet per 5 ranks in Craft (trap) radius centered on one corner of one of the squares it occupies, as determined when this snare is set. You can choose to create such an effect even without creating a trap (treating this as a trap that’s immediately triggered).
When creating such a snare you can choose to also have this area of difficult terrain also be filled with caltrops, pressurized spikes, or other such hazards. Creatures which enter or end their turn in the area suffer 1d6 damage +1d6 damage per 6 ranks in Craft (trap) (Reflex half). Creatures who remain in the area suffer damage once per round at the end of your subsequent turns.
You and allies you warn of this trap get a +5 to Reflex saves to avoid its effects as normal. If you have the Aerial Trigger talent this area of terrain extends into the air as well, and flying creatures must still pass a Fly check (DC 15 + caster level) or be forced to fly at half speed while over the area, and must make Reflex saves to avoid taking the damage. This area of difficult terrain dissipates after one minute.
Tricky Traps (snare) [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
A creature that fails its Reflex save to avoid this snare is subject to a dirty trick maneuver as if the trap successfully beat their CMD. This counts as you performing the dirty trick for the purposes of Scoundrel sphere abilities that depend on you triggering the dirty trick. Creatures targeted by this trap get a +1 circumstance bonus on their saving throw for each size category they are larger than Medium.
Legendary Talents
A Better Mouse Trap (snare) [Jester's HB]
Prerequisites: Craft (traps) 5 ranks, Trap sphere.
When triggered, this trap releases a rat swarm (Pathfinder RPG Bestiary pg. 232) in the square it was triggered. The swarm is hostile and attacks the creature which triggered the trap or any other nearby creature if unable to attack the target. A swarm summoned by this effect remains for 1 minute per rank of Craft (traps) you possess before mysteriously disappearing. For every 10 ranks in Craft (traps) you possess, an additional swarm is released in the nearest adjacent square to the creature who triggered the trap.
If you possess the Bee Keeper Beastmastery talent, you may expend martial focus when placing this trap to choose an animal or vermin swarm with a CR equal to or less than 1/2 your ranks in Craft (traps) to be released when the trap triggers. Choosing a swarm is subject to GM discretion.
All Part Of The Plan [Apoc]
Source: SA: Tricks & Traps
Prerequisites: Craft (traps) 5 ranks, Trap sphere (Rapid Placement).
Your ability to place traps is so speedy, some would say there is no logical point in time when you could have ever set the trap in the first place!
Whenever a creature that is flat-footed or denied its Dexterity bonus to AC moves into an unoccupied square within close range (25 feet + 5 feet per 2 ranks of Craft (traps) you possess) you may expend martial focus as an immediate action to treat that space as if it was a dart or tripwire snare unmodified by any Trap sphere talents you had set up previously. This must have been a trap you could setup as a single full-round action, and you must still succeed on the skill check to place it there successfully. If the creature has the ability to notice the presence of traps without actively searching (such as with the Heightened Awareness talent or See Hazard sense), they get to make a free Perception check against the DC to spot the trap, and if they succeed, do not trigger the trap.
You may take this talent a second time when you possess 10 ranks in Craft (traps), to be able to apply alchemical, magical, and technological items, as well as other dart or snare types you know, as part of the trap (you must still possess the ability and resources to do so).
Ghost-Touch Trap
Prerequisites: Trap sphere.
When setting a trap, you may increase the Craft (trap) DC by +10 to treat the trap as if it possessed the ghost-touch weapon special ability. The trap becomes a supernatural effect.
Guillotine (snare) [EO3]
Prerequisites: Craft (traps) 10 ranks, Trap sphere.
A creature that fails its Reflex save to avoid this snare suffers the effects of a called shot on a limb chosen when you create the snare (this excludes any body parts which would normally have a “challenging” penalty). If the creature failed their Reflex saving throw, that creature must also succeed at a Fortitude saving throw or suffer the critical called shot penalties on the determined limb in place of the normal penalties.
Note: This talent requires the called shot optional rule from Ultimate Combat.
Penetrating Trap
Prerequisites: Trap sphere, Craft (traps) 4 ranks.
Your damage-dealing traps overcome damage reduction based on your ranks in Craft (traps).
| Rank | DR Overcome |
|---|---|
| 4+ | Magic |
| 8+ | Cold Iron, Silver |
| 12+ | Adamantine |
| 16+ | Alignment (all) |
Plummeting Traps (snare) [EO3]
Prerequisites: Craft (traps) 10 ranks, Trap sphere.
You must expend your martial focus as part of placing this snare. A creature that fails its Reflex save to avoid this snare falls prone and suffers 1d6 points of bludgeoning damage per rank in Craft (traps) you possess. A successful Reflex saving throw halves this damage and negates falling prone.
Temporal Snare (snare)
Prerequisites: Trap sphere, Craft (traps) 15 ranks.
A creature that fails their save is forced into a state of suspended animation for a number of rounds equal to 1/2 your ranks in Craft (traps). For the target, time ceases to flow, and its condition becomes fixed. The creature does not grow older, its body functions virtually cease, and no force or effect can harm it. This trap is considered a spell-like ability, and the effects can be dispelled as normal, treating your ranks in Craft (traps) as your caster level.
Thaumic Sink (dart, snare)
Prerequisites: Trap sphere, Craft (traps) 15 ranks.
When used with a dart trap, a creature that is struck by your dart becomes affected as if he were inside of an antimagic field, as per the spell. This effect persists for 1 round per rank in Craft (traps) you possess or until a full-round action is spent removing the dart. A dart may be removed as a standard action, but doing so inflicts damage equal to the dart’s minimum damage. When used with a snare trap, a 10-ft. radius around the triggering square is covered in an antimagic field per the spell. This effect persists for 1 round per rank in Craft (traps) you possess.
An antimagic field suppresses any spell or magical effect used within, brought into, or cast into the area, but does not dispel it. Time spent within an antimagic field counts against the suppressed spell’s duration. Summoned creatures of any type wink out if they enter an antimagic field. They reappear in the same spot once the field goes away.
This trap is a spell-like ability, using your ranks in Craft (trap) as your caster level.