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The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons: A punishing collection of bone-crunching contraptions, brain-teasing riddles and ... RPG adventures (The Game Master Series)
The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons provides GMs with endless options for populating their adventures with challenging riddles, puzzles, spiked pits, Rube Goldberg-style deathtraps and much more - everything they need to push player character to their limit and bring new levels of excitement (and anxiety) to their game play.
Whether part of a pre-planned adventure or a random encounter, these brain teasers, puzzles and traps will make every dungeon crawl, fortress break-in, or temple sacking that much more fun. GMs will find more than 60 challenging puzzles, 60 unique traps and 50 modular dungeon chambers, each with its own set of possible encoounters, meaning GMs can generate a fully-functional (or completely dilapidated) dungeon in a few rolls of a dice. With intricate technical illustrations, beautifully rendered top-down location maps and three one-shot adventures, written by RPG inflencers including Jasmine Bhullar and the creators of the Three Black Halflings podcast, The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons is the ideal tool for any GM hoping to put the fun back in fun-geon*.
*not a word.
Whether part of a pre-planned adventure or a random encounter, these brain teasers, puzzles and traps will make every dungeon crawl, fortress break-in, or temple sacking that much more fun. GMs will find more than 60 challenging puzzles, 60 unique traps and 50 modular dungeon chambers, each with its own set of possible encoounters, meaning GMs can generate a fully-functional (or completely dilapidated) dungeon in a few rolls of a dice. With intricate technical illustrations, beautifully rendered top-down location maps and three one-shot adventures, written by RPG inflencers including Jasmine Bhullar and the creators of the Three Black Halflings podcast, The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons is the ideal tool for any GM hoping to put the fun back in fun-geon*.
*not a word.
Editorial Reviews
"As sharp as a razor-spiked pit and as clever as a sphinx with a Ph.D. in puzzlecraft. If you see your DM toting this book around, you'd better bring your "A" game, too!"
― Matt Forbeck, New York Times-bestselling author, Dungeons & Dragons: Endless Quest, Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game
"A fantastic drag-and-drop resource for any GM who wants to shake things up and challenge their players with unique scenarios. The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons is a must have for your collection―sure to add fun to your adventures for years to come."
― Aaron Hübrich, Publisher and Creative Director, Jetpack7
― Matt Forbeck, New York Times-bestselling author, Dungeons & Dragons: Endless Quest, Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game
"A fantastic drag-and-drop resource for any GM who wants to shake things up and challenge their players with unique scenarios. The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons is a must have for your collection―sure to add fun to your adventures for years to come."
― Aaron Hübrich, Publisher and Creative Director, Jetpack7
Readers Top Reviews
MoJoughChris Geru
This books has amazing details and amazing ideas, so excited I got it!
Peter H.MoJoughCh
I received it yesterday, and I have already read it cover to cover. Its a great resource for DMs who love to challenge their players, but do not have a ton of time to spare. I have already worked a few of these traps into this weeks game.
PaulPeter H.MoJou
Awesome book, with awesome additions! Seeing that the WebDM guys participated was even more awesome. 10/10! Lots of different traps from "ouch that hurts" to "where's my head?" - plus some one shots!
James J.PaulPeter
I am a busy DM, and so my prep typically consists of linking together encounters and one-shots found in supplemental books. I gave this a chance because I bought their Random Encounters book and found it pretty helpful. This book, though, totally blows it out of the water. You can feasibly make a dungeon in 5 minutes with the tables, and even taken as individual pieces, some of these traps and puzzles can work as entire encounters on their own. It makes the prep easy and exciting, and can also inform your world through reverse engineering. For instance, I happened to roll two music-related traps/puzzles in a row, so I scoured the book for similar stuff and found a haunted ballroom in the dungeons chamber, occupied by a ghostly harpist. Now, my world has a bard’s academy, with a secret basement dungeon hiding a lost composition, rumored to contain a powerful command spell within its notes. I came up with a whole hook based on a few random roles, and didn’t even have to do any work! I would recommend this to any DM looking to make their prep easier, as this is easily the most exciting and most useful supplemental text I’ve seen.
PatriciaJames J.P
I get the first book from this guy: pretty good book. I get the second book from this guy: actually kinda amazing. Third round I pre-order the book and got it today, and open it up turn to a random page expecting to be inspired. Instant inspiration. I was kinda on the fence about the upcoming dragon book but at this point I'd donate the money.
