Set Snares (sage ability) - Revision history

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Effect & Damage

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Triggering

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 '''Set Snares''' is an [[Knowledge Points|amateur]]-status [[Sage Ability|sage ability]] in the [[Sage Study|study]] of [[Setting Traps (sage study)|Setting Traps]], allowing the character to construct and place snares, trip wires, counterweights and foothold traps. These devices function to momentarily capture or hinder a target, using tensioned twine or wire to snatch a limb, pull a victim off balance or trigger an environmental hazard. While simple to craft, snares require frequent maintenance, especially when used to secure an area such as a [[Settlements|settlement]] against intruders. Regular upkeep ensures the effectiveness of these traps by resetting sprung snares, checking for environmental wear and preserving the tension that holds them in place.
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-Gives knowledge regarding the use of snares, trip wires, counterweights and foothold traps, enabling the character to snatch and momentarily detain victims with anchored twine or wire that is kept under tension.  Snares are easy to produce and easy to set in large numbers, though if set to protect a [[Settlements|settlement]] from intruders they require maintenance to ensure that animals have not sprung the traps or to ensure the tension on the trap has not waned.
+'''Set Snares''' is an [[Knowledge Points|amateur]]-status [[Sage Ability|sage ability]] in the [[Sage Study|study]] of [[Setting Traps (sage study)|Setting Traps]], which allows the character to set snares, trip wires, counterweights and foothold traps, enabling the character to snatch and momentarily detain victims with anchored twine or wire that is kept under tension.  Snares are easy to produce and easy to set in large numbers, though if set to protect a [[Settlements|settlement]] from intruders they require maintenance to ensure that animals have not sprung the traps or to ensure the tension on the trap has not waned.
 == Trap Configuration ==

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	Gives knowledge regarding the use of snares, trip wires, counterweights and foothold traps, enabling the character to snatch and momentarily detain victims with anchored twine or wire that is kept under tension. Snares are easy to produce and easy to set in large numbers, though if set to protect a [[Settlements\|settlement]] from intruders they require maintenance to ensure that animals have not sprung the traps or to ensure the tension on the trap has not waned.		Gives knowledge regarding the use of snares, trip wires, counterweights and foothold traps, enabling the character to snatch and momentarily detain victims with anchored twine or wire that is kept under tension. Snares are easy to produce and easy to set in large numbers, though if set to protect a [[Settlements\|settlement]] from intruders they require maintenance to ensure that animals have not sprung the traps or to ensure the tension on the trap has not waned.

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 If the 60% roll is successful, the potential victim is entitled to a [[Ability Checks|dexterity check]], -1 per level of the character setting the snare.  A successful check will set off the trap but will not catch the victim; however, if the trap has the potential to cause damage, the victim setting off the trap will yet receive 50% of the damage the trap would have caused had the check failed.
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 It is not supposed that the player character requires a complete understanding of how snares are made or placed.  Nor is it feasible to outline every possible manner in which a trap might be employed by the maker.  Snare traps could be used to catch a given body part, making the victim vulnerable to [[Combat|combat]], [[Backstabbing (sage study)|backstabbing]] or [[Assassination (sage ability)|assassination]].  A snare with a sufficient counterweight could be used to catch hold and hoist a victim entirely free of the ground, by one or both legs.  A trip wire, similar to a snare, could be used to pull free a lynch-pin, releasing a small avalanche of rocks, a swinging log or similar damage-causing consequence.  Necessarily, the precise form of the trap must be left to the character who proposes the trap's intent.
-However, the ability does not allow the snare trap to employ any mechanism, such as spring loaded missiles, nor does it presume a second-device that must be likewise kept under tension, such as a swinging arm that turns on an axis and strikes the victim when a trip wire has been sprung.  The sage ability as described here is limited not by the player's imagination, but by the amateur level of the character.  More elaborate, complicated traps must wait until the character has achieved the level of an authority, whereupon such [[Booby Traps (sage ability)|booby traps]] are possible.  Until that time, assume the character's ability is limited by a single functional device, and not where the first device sets off a second device which then requires further design to work.  A pile of rocks, or a hanging log made to swing across when released, does not qualify as a second device and is therefore included within this sage ability.
+However, the ability does not allow the snare trap to employ any mechanism, such as spring loaded missiles, nor does it presume a second-device that must be likewise kept under tension, such as a swinging arm that turns on an axis and strikes the victim when a trip wire has been sprung.  The sage ability as described here is limited not by the player's imagination, but by the amateur level of the character.  More elaborate, complicated traps must wait until the character has achieved the level of an authority, whereupon such [[Booby Trap (sage ability)|booby traps]] are possible.  Until that time, assume the character's ability is limited by a single functional device, and not where the first device sets off a second device which then requires further design to work.  A pile of rocks, or a hanging log made to swing across when released, does not qualify as a second device and is therefore included within this sage ability.
 == Time to Set ==