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== Functional Craft Trap ==

First thing is, some traps will be free and quick to make.  The water bucket over the door, when you have a bucket of water and a door.  That's free, maybe a few rounds.  Contact poison smeared on X.  If you have the poison, it doesn't cost any more than that, takes you 1d4 rounds.  You just need to make a DC 15 Craft Trap to "set it up right" for the basic, no frilled trap of these kinds.  Failing means the rock's not stable, the poison isn't smeared well, and so forth.

So what about everything else, specifically traps with moving parts, fancy exploding doors, and all of that?  The formula is now a minimum of DC 15 to set up the trap, anything less and it doesn't work.  Your progress on the trap is as follows:

Your result squared = the amount of progress in gold per day.

When you reach the market-price of the trap, the trap is complete (you still only pay 1/3rd the cost of the trap in actual gold).  For example, if you roll a 20, that is 20x20, or 400 gold progress per day.  If you roll a 30, that's 30x30, or 900 gold a day.  Roll a 100, and you're making 100x100, or 10,000gp a day.  So a trap which costs 21,600 gp might take 3 days for a high level character, and a lot longer for low-level characters to construct.  It will cost you 7200 gp out of pocket to build.  Remember, you still need to make DC 15 minimum to make any sort of trap, so you will be making at least 225 gold in traps a day.
Author	Eiji-kun +
Identifier	3.5e Variant Rule +
Rating	Unrated +
Summary	Make crafting traps a viable option, and not just a waste of skill points. +
Title	Functional Craft Trap +