The Handbook of Traps and Tricks

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The Handbook of Traps and Tricks is a 1981 role-playing game supplement published by Dragon Tree Press.

Contents

Contents

The Handbook of Traps and Tricks is a compendium of traps mostly intended to be used with dungeons. [1]

Reception

Aaron Allston reviewed The Handbook of Traps and Tricks in The Space Gamer No. 43. [1] Allston commented that "A good supplement - but wait for the price to go down." [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Allston, Aaron (September 1981). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer . Steve Jackson Games (43): 30.
  2. "Têtes d'Affiche | Article | RPGGeek".