Trapper

Trappers prefer a more indirect approach to battle. They are often seen as cowards for that, but they are anything but. If well-prepared, they can be incredibly dangerous.

Trap Arsenal

Starting at 3rd level, through your study of the fine arts, you have managed to create your first traps.

• Gain proficiency at tinker's tools.
• You learn 2 fast deployment traps, and 1 more at level 5, 11, and 15.
• The amount of traps you can deploy is equal to twice your proficiency bonus, and resets at long rest.
• All traps require an action to deploy.
• Mechanical Traps:
  
  • Mechanical traps have a save DC of 8 + proficiency bonus + dexterity modifier.
  • Enemies disarming your traps, need to succeed against the same DC.
  • Activation requires your tinker's tools at hand.
  • They are considered non-magical.
• Magical Traps:
  
  • Magical traps have a save DC of 8 + proficiency bonus + wisdom modifier.
  • Enemies disarming your traps, need to succeed against the same DC.
  • Activation requires a focus, tinker's tools is considered one as well for you.
  • They are considered magical and can be affected by dispel magic.

Acid Trap

• Magical Trap
• Deployment: unoccupied location within 15ft.
• Conjure an acid rune at the target area.
• Duration: 10 minutes.
• Camouflage: investigation DC.
• Sensor: Magically sensitive towards light sources within 15ft.
• Trigger: Bright light.
• Activation: It shoots a ball of acid towards the brightest light source, exploding acid within a 10ft. cone.
• Every creature, inside the cone, needs to make a constitution saving throw.
• On fail, they take 2d10 acid damage.
• On success, only half.
• Recharge: 5-6

Blade Trap

• Mechanical Trap
• Deployment: unoccupied location within 5ft.
• Duration: 1 hour.
• Sensor: Light sensor, extending up to 20ft. in a straight line.
• Trigger: If a creature is 10ft. within the sensor.
• Activation: A blade swings at the creature.
• Target needs to make a dexterity saving throw.
• On fail, it takes 2d10 slashing damage.
• On success, it takes only half damage.
• The arm can extend a maximum of 10ft.
• Recharge: 4-6

Blaze Trap

• Magical Trap
• Deployment: unoccupied location within 15ft.
• Conjure a blaze rune at the target location.
• Duration: 1 hour.
• Camouflage: the rune dims after 1 round, requiring an arcana skill against your magical DC.
• Sensor: Magical sense creature, within 5ft.
• Trigger: Creatures stepping or floating 5ft. over the rune, activate it.
• Activation: Create a 10ft. high explosion of flames in the shape of a cross, hitting creatures nearby.
• All affected creatures need to make a dexterity saving throw.
• On fail, they take 2d10 fire damage.
• On success, only half the damage.
• Recharge: 6

Bubble Trap

• Magical Trap
• Deployment: Conjure a medium sized rune on an unoccupied place within 30ft.
• This can be placed on top of water.
• Duration: Maximum of 1 hour.
• Camouflage: arcana DC.
• Sensor: Touch
• Trigger: Medium or smaller sized creatures touching it.
• Activation: target becomes enclosed in a bubble, needing to make a strength saving throw to break free.
• On fail, they are restrained.
• On success, they are free.
• Repeat the saving throw at the start of its turn, ending the effect on a success.
• Recharge: after 1d4 rounds.

Curse Trap

• Magical Trap
• Deployment: unoccupied location within 30ft.
• Conjure a cursed rune at the target area.
• Duration: 1 hour.
• Camouflage: investigation DC.
• Sensor: This trap is able to detect thoughts within 5ft. of it.
• Trigger: Presence of thoughts.
• Activation: Creature is cursed.
• It needs to make a wisdom saving throw.
• On fail, its speed is reduced by 15ft. for 1 minute.
• On success, nothing happens.
• Recharge: 1 minute.

Flash Trap

• Mechanical Trap
• Deployment: Thrown, unoccupied location, within 15ft.
• Duration: 2 hours.
• Sensor: This trap can be attached to levers, doors, buttons or other switches up to 15ft. apart.
• Trigger: Without a switch, it triggers when stepped on.
• Activation: Flash of Light appears.
• Every creature within 5ft. of it needs to make a constitution saving throw.
• On fail, they are blinded for 1d4 rounds.
• On success, they only feel pain in their eyes.
• Recharge: 3-6

Lightning Trap

• Magical Trap
• Deployment: unoccupied location within 15ft.
• A lightning rune is conjured at the target location.
• Duration: 1 hour.
• Sensor: Metal objects within 15ft.
• Trigger: if a metal object, or a flying creature, is within a 10ft. radius.
• Activation: The object, or the creature, is hit by lightning.
• It needs to make a constitution saving throw.
• On fail, it takes 2d10 lightning damage.
• On success, it takes half damage.
• Recharge: 5-6

Smoke Trap

• Mechanical Trap
• Deployment: unoccupied area within 15ft.
• Duration: 2 hours.
• Camouflage: perception DC.
• Sensor: vibrations within a 5ft. radius.
• Trigger: strong enough vibrations within 5ft.(configurable)
• Activation: It will create a 15 x 15ft. square smokescreen around it.
• Everything inside is considered heavily obscured.
• The smokescreen stays active for 2 minutes.
• Recharge: none

Spike Trap

• Mechanical Trap
• Deployment: unoccupied place within 5ft.
• Duration: maximum of 8 hours.
• Camouflage: perception DC.
• Sensor: pressure plate
• Trigger: weight threshold, configurable.
• Activation: spikes extend 3ft., creatures within range need to make a dexterity saving throw.
• On fail, thet take 2d10 piercing damage.
• On success, only half.
• Recharge: 3-6

Spring Trap

• Mechanical Trap
• Deployment: unoccupied area within 5ft., together with a direction you designate.
• Duration: 1 hour.
• Camouflage: perception DC.
• Sensor: heat in a 5ft. radius.
• Trigger: Heat source standing above, within range of the spring.
• Activation: creature that stands on it, needs to make a dexterity saving throw.
• On fail, it gets pushed 10ft. into the designated direction.
• On success, it avoids it.
• Recharge: every round.

Reverse Engineering

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain the ability to disarm and dismantle your own traps, without an ability check.

• Reverse Engineering: You can dismantle an active trap of yours, to regain a charge of your Trap Arsenal.
• This requires 5 rounds, and makes noise.
• Trap proficiency: When you search for hidden traps or disarm them, you roll an extra 1d4 on the ability check.
• Well Designed: If you roll a 1 with a trap damage dice, it is considered a 2.

Complex Chain

Starting at 9th level, you can interconnect traps, to formulate more complex ones.

• Reverse Engineering: You can target other traps after they have been disarmed, allowing you to combine it with one of your traps.
• You can make the original, or your trap's trigger, the dominant one, ignoring the other.
• Trap proficiency: Increases to 1d6.
• Improved Design: If you roll a 1, or a 2 with a trap damage die, it is considered a 3.
• Complex Chain: You can chain traps together.
• This requires a set-up time of 1 minute.
• If a trap in the chain triggers, the target is shared with the connected traps, activating all, who can fire.
• Maximum distance is 60ft. from one trap to another.
• The following conditions can be programmed:
  • Traps can be designated to a group.
  • Deactivate or ignore triggers of specific groups or traps.
  • Deactivate or ignore sensors of specific groups or traps.
  • You can make logic gates, using triggers, activation, and sensors.
  • Delay activation for as long as a trap or group can stay active.
  • If a delay greater than 1 round is involved, it acts on initiative count 8+ dexterity modifier + proficiency bonus.

Trap Master

By 13th level, you have achieved a milestone, with your understanding of Traps.

• Exploit: If a creature triggered a trap, you gain advantage on your next attack against it.
• Integration: You can combine traps with medium or bigger objects.
• This way, you can set touch, or on use trigger.
• Using a password, you can make the trap ignore the creature who spoke it.
• Trap Master: You can turn one of your traps, into a gadget or magical device.
  • This requires a short or long rest.
  • While in your possession, it will not disable itself after the maximum duration.
  • Other creatures, without your permission, need to make a successful arcana (magical) or investigation (mechanical) check against your DC, to use it.
  • During creation, it can be designed to be manual or automatic, this can be changed on a long or short rest.
  • An automatic device, activates on its normal trigger.
  • A manual device, requires manual targeting, and can be activated using a cunning action.
  • Both recharge 5-6.

Experimental Tinkering

When you reach 17th level, you learn how to pull out your contraptions full potential.

• Trap Master: You can have up to 2 devices, and even chain them.
• Overclock: Using your bonus action, you can boost a trap or device, beyond its limit.
  • Boosted trap: Its lifespan is reduced to 1 minute.
  • It deals maximum damage on activation or forces disadvantage on the saving throw, and then explodes with a radius of 5ft.
  • Boosted device: It requires no recharge, but explodes after 1 minute.
  • The explosion forces creatures within a 5ft. radius to make a constitution saving throw.
  • On fail, they take 4d10 of the device's damage type, or fire damage if it has none.
  • On success, they take half.
  • The explosion can be triggered earlier at will.
  • The device has a 10ft. radius on explosion.