treasure or secret doors in pits

[chaoticprime]

The wandering monster for this quest is a goblin...who says, "Dear god, thank you! Oh, thank you! I thought I was going to be trapped down here until I died."

"I attack."

[Daedalus]

Are you sure he isn't just allowed to search WHILE he is in a trap?
Being able to actually search THE trap opens up to all kinds of madness. What if you draw another trap or a wandering monster?

Yes, you may draw a Hazard Treasure Card and suffer an additional BP as you fall into a hole. That hole is not a trap (the wording was changed in the NA version of the card), so no more searching for treasure is possible. A Wandering Monster Card may also be drawn while searching for treasure in a pit. The monster would be placed adjacent to the pit, if possible, allowing for an advantageous attack from above. As sharing a square is permitted in a pit trap (p.13 of NA Instruction Booklet, under Hero Movement), it is even feasible that the Wandering Monster could attack from the pit itself.

Can anyone confirm this rule actually exists?

(Thanks, IvenBach)

Anyways if you want to use it in a quest I think you'd have to give the players some kind of hint. I would have been stuck forever if I had to guess the secret door was down a pit trap.

If a pit trap were disarmed, then the secret door would never be found. I agree a hint is needed, at least if a necessary room lies beyond the secret door.

[chaoticprime]

Are you sure he isn't just allowed to search WHILE he is in a trap?
Being able to actually search THE trap opens up to all kinds of madness. What if you draw another trap or a wandering monster?

Yes, you may draw a Hazard Treasure Card and suffer an additional BP as you fall into a hole. That hole is not a trap (the wording was changed in the NA version of the card), so no more searching for treasure is possible. A Wandering Monster Card may also be drawn while searching for treasure in a pit. The monster would be placed adjacent to the pit, if possible, allowing for an advantageous attack from above. As sharing a square is permitted in a pit trap (p.13 of NA Instruction Booklet, under Hero Movement), it is even feasible that the Wandering Monster could attack from the pit itself.

Can anyone confirm this rule actually exists?

(Thanks, IvenBach)

Anyways if you want to use it in a quest I think you'd have to give the players some kind of hint. I would have been stuck forever if I had to guess the secret door was down a pit trap.

If a pit trap were disarmed, then the secret door would never be found. I agree a hint is needed, at least if a necessary room lies beyond the secret door.

The pit trap is one that you cannot search for or disarm. That, in itself, is basically the clue that its not normal.

I typically play with the Hazard! Pit Trap card actually becoming a new pit (tile on map). I realize that that is not how it is done by the rules. It is zany, however.

[Count Mohawk]

I typically play with the Hazard! Pit Trap card actually becoming a new pit (tile on map). I realize that that is not how it is done by the rules. It is zany, however.

There was at least one Quest from Hero Quest Revised where the wandering monster was a Pit Trap...

[chaoticprime]

I typically play with the Hazard! Pit Trap card actually becoming a new pit (tile on map). I realize that that is not how it is done by the rules. It is zany, however.

There was at least one Quest from Hero Quest Revised where the wandering monster was a Pit Trap...

I support that.

[torilen]

actually, a wandering monster pit trap would work really well, especially if the backstory put
you in a place where the floor was known to be dangerous - broken down building or cave with
many, many tunnels overlapping each other.

I like that - never noticed it before.