Traps in D&D's 'Xanathar's Guide To Everything' 

"The original trap rules, which I designed so I can freely criticise them." Love the smile on his face as he just casually goes, yeah we fucked up but this time we got it.

How fast do you think your players would catch on if every trap was pulled directly from Home Alone?

These are the kinds of traps I put into my campaign -- puzzles to solve, not just skill checks to make. My players enjoyed them very much when they were clever.

To be honest, I was surprised by the lack of trap rules/system in the DMG. The section in XGE on traps looks fantastic though.

Go through the dimension door after the boulder.

Xanathar's is a better DMG than the DMG

Any good creator of things never follows the rules exactly, merely uses rules as a guildline.

Thank you for the Videos GEnts. Very Helpful. Requesting videos describing The City of Waterdeep, SkullPort and Undermountain. Neverwinter, Helm Hold and Baulder's Gate Candle keep. And a forgotten Realms time line up to the events of Phandelver in the D&D starters kit.

Not the kind of trap I was expecting but good enough

Trap not a monster, well now mimic as a spike in a spike trap.....

I once had a trap set up that was a classic hallway with poison darts to be avoided, and at the end of the hall was a door, but the door itself didn’t function. Instead, when you touched the door’s handle, you were teleported to the bottom of a lake in the next area. So even if you missed all the poison darts, you basically immediately started drowning.

I think that traps should vary from dungeon to dungeon. If it is, say, an ancient temple where is kept the legendary artefact needed to destroy the BBEG, it would make more sense to have it peppered with puzzle- like traps or prove-yourself challenges, to ensure that only the worthy may access to said artifact. the lair of the BBEG? sprinkle liberally your worst Vietnam- inspired traps! the BBEG wants either to get rid of pesky adventurers or to weaken them enough that he can then destroy them with ease...

Check out Matthew Reilly's Jack West novels for inspiration for traps. Those books are full of traps.

I just thought of a random question. Would air genasi, aarockara, etc be more likely to be storm sorcerers due to their natural affinity with air?

It's a trap.

Still not as dangerous as the false waifu.

This is how traps were in 4E ...