Squash Stack Studio

Although I’ve played very little D&D in my life, I’ve always had an abiding fascination with the game, particularly the spooky underground dungeon crawls with monsters, treasure, and of course, traps!

Part of my interest has always been the behind-the-scenes part of a dungeon. When the traps are sprung and the bodies hit the floor, who mops up the blood? Who drops the bodies down a chute for the otyugh to munch? Who reloads the poison arrow launchers, refills the fuel canisters for the flame jets, and polishes the scuffs from the flagstones so the next bunch of idiots don’t notice the pressure plate in the floor? Does the dungeon have a maintenance department? (This kind of thinking is probably why I am now a facility and network manager with a maintenance department of my own.)

As I built my tribute to Grimtooth’s ‘Roman Amphitheatre Trap’, all these questions were in the back of my mind. So let’s peel back a layer and see what’s going on below the Amphitheatre! Scroll down! As I remove the floor of the Amphitheatre, you can begin to see the mechanism below.