Browse Hazards
Browse fantasy hazards and traps with triggers, discovery clues, countermeasures, defenses, and flavorful effects for Pathfinder 2E and similar systems.
Bastion's Emberline
The Bastion's Emberline is a defensive fire system built into the new fortification. It turns the walls themselves into a weapon, sweeping the approaches with incandescent ash whenever attackers ga...
The Nettle Yard's Living Perimeter
The Nettle Yard is a living defensive perimeter that treats the battlefield as a body to be protected. Its roots undermine footing, its vines lash at intruders, and its thorned growth pulls against...
The Breathless Bloom
The Breathless Bloom is a living carpet of dungeon mold that releases a shimmering cloud of spores when disturbed. The cloud does not kill quickly. Instead, it steals breath, blurs judgment, and ma...
The Watchdog Alley
The Watchdog Alley is a haunted alarm system disguised as a common service lane. It senses movement beneath its awning, rings a piercing bell, and causes the surrounding buildings to answer with sl...
The Listening Lantern
The Listening Lantern is a magical surveillance ward that steals a person's voice and briefly animates their shadow. It was designed to identify fugitives, spies, and dissidents, but years of negle...
Basin of the Drowned Gaze
The basin is a hungry scrying vessel that remembers every face reflected in its waters. It lures explorers with false treasure, then floods their senses with visions of drowning. The hazard is most...
The Whispering Wall
The Whispering Wall is a dungeon corridor lined with bronze mouths that speak in familiar voices. It does not merely make noise. It offers warnings, accusations, bargains, and pleas designed to spl...
The Bell That Remembers
The Bell That Remembers is a silent alarm disguised as an old floor bell. It does not care about footsteps, weight, or stolen treasure. It listens for a spoken name, title, or command inside its ci...
The Sorrow-Key Basin
The Sorrow-Key Basin guards a dungeon passage by demanding a secret from anyone who reaches for its key. It does not merely reveal the secret. It gives the secret a temporary life, creating a whisp...
The Reflected Moon Basin
The Reflected Moon Basin is a magical ward designed to halt intruders without spilling blood. It projects pale moonlight onto creatures that disturb its water, causing their shadows to pull away fr...
The Blooming Strangler
The Blooming Strangler is a living ambush disguised as a natural passage. Its flowers release a faint soporific perfume while hidden tendrils coil beneath leaf litter and around nearby trunks. When...
The Lullaby Meadow
The Lullaby Meadow is a living environmental hazard that feeds on motion, breath, and memory. It does not merely poison intruders. It gently persuades them to lie down, forget why they came, and be...
The Borrowed Path
The Borrowed Path is a stretch of Feywild terrain that steals certainty from travelers. It does not merely loop a road. It replaces landmarks, rearranges companions, alters remembered directions, a...
The Kindly Mispath
The Kindly Mispath is a living section of Feywild woodland that rearranges distance, memory, and intention. It never appears openly hostile. Instead, it offers shortcuts, familiar voices, flatterin...
Das Grabmal der gestohlenen Schatten
Das Grabmal trägt einen Fluch, der Lebenskraft in Erinnerung verwandelt. Wer den Durchgang unbedacht betritt, spürt zuerst eisige Finger unter der Haut. Dann löst sich der eigene Schatten vom Körpe...
The Black Reliquary Mirror
The Black Reliquary Mirror is a cursed funerary mirror that feeds on identity rather than blood. It waits in silence until a living creature sees its own face in the glass, then shows that face agi...
The Splintered Quartet
The Splintered Quartet is a complex magical hazard created when a fragment of the Great Mirror, an ancient artifact said to have once reflected the Ethereal Plane itself, broke apart in the ruins. ...
Resonant Reliquary of the Sevenfold Choir
The Resonant Reliquary is a complex magical hazard made from seven crystalline glass shards that react to movement, sound, and one another. It does not simply punish intruders. Instead, it cycles t...
Ashen Refuge Bell
The Ashen Refuge Bell was meant to protect the camp by warning its people of approaching attackers. Under stress, however, the bell feeds on fear. Each toll sends a pulse through the ropes, wagons,...
The Sixfold Civic Ward
The Ancient Civic Ward protects a sealed urban gate. It judges movement by sound, shadow, blood, and spoken authority. Once awakened, the six pillar-foci act in sequence, punishing intruders while ...
Clockwork Gatekeeper
The Clockwork Gatekeeper is a dormant guardian installed in a ruined observatory. It interprets nearby movement and sound as an attempt to breach the sealed chamber, then releases precise bursts of...
Seedward Triangulation
The Seedward Triangulation is an emergency defensive ward designed to keep a seed wagon moving while a dragon attacks. It does not kill the dragon outright. Instead, it turns the dragon's own eleme...
Covenant of the Cinderbound Coins
The Ashen Covenant has bound the battlefield's Ember-Coins into a ritual engine. The hazard does not merely defend the relics. It turns every attempt to seize them into fuel, feeding on fire, blood...
The Sixfold Ossuary
The Sixfold Ossuary is a necromantic guardian that protects a sealed passage beneath a flooded cavern. It does not attack immediately. Instead, it studies intruders through the skulls on its pillar...
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