Browse Hazards
Browse fantasy hazards and traps with triggers, discovery clues, countermeasures, defenses, and flavorful effects for Pathfinder 2E and similar systems.
The Choir's Stillwater
The Choir's Stillwater is a complex curse spread through a stretch of river. It targets only inhabitants named in the cult's submerged ledger, including descendants recognized by the curse. When on...
The Eightfold Witness
The Eightfold Witness is a magical defense built to judge intruders rather than merely kill them. Crossing the threshold wakes the eyes, which fire in a deliberate sequence and mark each target wit...
The Fourfold Run
The party escapes the collapsing chamber and hurries into a long hallway. Dust sifts from the ceiling, grit crunches underfoot, and a faint metallic tang clings to the air. A step lands on a sunken...
La Bilancia del Prezzo Dorato
La Bilancia del Prezzo Dorato punisce chi tenta di appropriarsi dei tesori che custodisce. Quando una creatura tocca una moneta, l'acqua della cascata si tende come una frusta e la trascina verso i...
Briar Vow's Censer Snare
This concealed ritual apparatus turns a trespasser's movement into a signal for a swinging censer and a sweeping chain. The cult uses it to guard its woodland altar and punish anyone who interrupts...
Ravenshollow's Western Stair
The western stair is not safe to climb as it stands. Weight on a tilted step shifts a cracked support and drops loose masonry onto the lower flight. The warning signs are obvious, and the party has...
The Weir That Won't Hold
A rain-swollen millpond is pressing against a timber weir whose gate has been jammed by flood debris. The structure is failing, not exploding: each round brings another groan, a stronger surge thro...
The Corridor That Forgets
The corridor gradually forgets that intruders exist. Names fade from speech, tracks vanish, and familiar details become difficult to recall. The effect is not an attack so much as an increasingly h...
The Quiet Course's Binding Ring
The binding ring is a brass-and-silver assembly holding the air elemental that drives the vessel. Covert course changes, tampering with its controls, or damage to the ship place increasing strain o...
Cindervein Rock Slide
The slope is a dormant rock slide animated by elemental heat and pressure. Crossing its narrow chute, striking the surrounding stone, or disturbing one of its glowing fissures can set the scree mov...
Grave of Garukhan
Garukhan and the Stone of Earth lie twenty feet beneath the roots at the center of this secluded clearing. The grave's guardians do not strike at visitors simply for entering. They awaken when some...
Gaping Maw
The Gaping Maw is a planar gateway hidden in a corrupted stretch of river. Its current grows stronger as travelers approach, drawing them toward the void at the center. Each pulse threatens to batt...
Portal of Mogol
The Portal of Mogol is an ancient threshold connecting the arch to a realm of oceans. The curtain gives no view of the far side, and those who pass through arrive at the linked shore or in its wate...
Hexbrand
Hexbrand is a persistent curse laid by a spellcaster or bound into a cursed item. It imposes a verdict on anyone the mark deems guilty, weakening the body's capacity to endure sickness, poison, exh...
Dream Drought
The Dream Drought is a haunting that feeds through a curse delivered to a sleeping creature by a spell or cursed object. It draws sapience and aura from the target's dream-self, leaving the sleeper...
Pollen Rot
Pollen Rot is an area curse that makes living creatures weaken as if their vigor were being harvested for an unseen garden. It also spoils exposed food and water, turning provisions into carriers o...
Soul Leech Reliquary
A soul-leech reliquary is a cursed necromantic engine that strips Sapience from living minds and converts the stolen essence into vitality for its caster or stored power for a magical item. The vic...
Crystal Fever
Crystal Fever is a living elemental resonance that travels through glittering dust, exposed crystal, and the mountain's deep vibrations. It makes the body crystallize from within. The first signs a...
Void Echoes
Void Echoes are fey hauntings that feed on the distinction between memory and perception. They begin as small errors in reflection, then turn familiar places into hostile stage sets. Those exposed ...
Withering Flame
The Withering Flame is a lingering corruption bound to a black-glass basin and an unseen tether. It does not burn flesh. Instead, each cycle it draws vitality and stored power from creatures in its...
The Unquiet Pearl
The Unquiet Pearl is a cursed focus that leaks a quiet, contagious madness into the thoughts of anyone who lingers near it. The first symptoms feel like an insight: a certainty that the room is lis...
Bloodrot
Bloodrot is a necromantic engine that turns living circulation against its owner. Its pulse enters the bloodstream as a chill, sour ache, then steadily weakens the victim's ability to resist. The h...
Soul Rot Basin
This simple magical hazard spreads Soul Rot through close contact with its vapor. An affected creature loses 5 points of Sapience each day. A 3rd-rank or higher witchcraft remedy can cure the affli...
Voidwake Syndrome
Voidwake Syndrome is a supernatural disease carried by Void radiation in the Black Fog. Those exposed first lose restorative sleep, then wander as if following a distant signal. Their feelings fade...
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