WOW this was fantastic. This trap is a work of art.
I did not have high hopes looking over the 5 pages, A cover, a legal page, an advertisement, and two pages of actual trap.
Pros - Well organized, every important line is in bold so if you need to double check anything it is super easy to find. It has a section for changing the level of this trap to fit almost any CR. The art is fun. Most importantly this trap is Hilarious and Brutal! It could be added to any ancient temple, cultist hideout, or wizard tower no problem and probably anywhere else with two minutes of thought. Also the fact that it is not a simple trap to solve. The usual methods of looking where you are going, running through as fast as you can, or crawling through on your belly will all get you killed. Heck throw in 10 chickens or a bag of rats will only make your players underestimate this trap. Also I am not nitpicking the advertisement. You took my breath away and that was the perfect time to say you have more to offer.
Cons - None!
Nitpicks - A short paragraph describing the purpose of the trap at the very begning would have gotten my attention, and turned off my skeptisism right away and I would have been sold. Instead I had to get most of the way through the page before I realized that I was staring at a work of art. I will whine and say that there was only one trap... but it was such a wonderful trap that this does exactly what you want it to do. edit One additional nitpick, it mentions that the room provides it's own dim light, which gives disadvantage on perception checks along with the mist BUT it does not say if players adding their own light will remove this disadvantage. (I think it will once close up). Thos are all of my Nitpicks.
Conclusion - I don't know how I feel about paying $1 for two pages of content... That being said if they wanted to pad this out to 10 pages of DM suggestions and ideas to fit it into your dungeon they could have. Easily worth $0.75. Honestly I think the biggest trap in this book was letting me know that they have other books, so now I'm blindly running towards the bait... They know me too well. Lets see how your other books hold up.
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