07 October 2021

When I Did Things Like This

When I set booby-traps like the ones shown in this article in my gaming, the players all decried it as unrealistic and unfair.

I will give them the unfair part.

Booby-traps are the very definition of unfair.

But they work...

Just in case the link goes bad...

Barely legible version here and here
 

It's about a Yugoslavian booby-trap AK magazine.  It's got a 35g TNT (GURPS 3d+1 [1d] cr ex) charge in it.  There's five rounds of real ammo in the thing and if you remove them, it goes off.

It's weighted to feel like there's a full 30 rounds in there, including a cartridge base visible through the witness hole.

I guess you could spot it by removing one round and checking to see if that round in the witness hole moved.

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