Treasure chests, that is.

It seems that, no matter what, the only thing I have to do when trying to disarm any of my treasure chests during a game (I have 15 in the collection), I only have to NOT roll a 2 to successfully disarm it. I have yet to unsuccessfully disarm a trap. This is making me feel as if I am doing something wrong. Or, maybe my heros and teams are just too powerful.

Percentage-wise, at least 95% of the time the trap defense is 10. 5% of the time it might be 11 or 12. Still, with an attack value of 8 - 10, this is a no-win situation for the chest.

What am I overlooking to make chests more interesting?

Quote from the latest rule book p17: (see Wk website)

" To disarm a trap... roll 2 six sided dice, adding the results. If the total is equal or greater than the DISARMING NUMBER , the trap has been disarmed..."

I dont think you are supposed to add the die roll to the attack value of your character.

You just roll a die (modify it by SA's) then compare to the trap disarm number value. :D

You'll notice that traps with a 12 disarm value will be kind of hard to disarm without a thief in your team. ;) (thieves = those with stealth, nimble and sneak attack)

See! Told'ja it was a stupid question!!!

I'm so used to everything being vs. the attack that it didn't even register that this had nothing to do with the attack strength of the character.

Thanks for the clarification. I can now sleep peacefully at night.:D

Don't feel stupid, it's an easy mistake to make when you first start playing. I made a few mistakes when a started playing Dungeons too.;)

The posters above are right.
As you can see now, it is pretty hard to disarm a trap reliably if you place chests above #110 or so, and do not do SLOW disarms.
Even a relatively normal trap of 12 is very hard to disarm quickly with a thief - do not bother with it without one that gets +4.

General Stormfox

We had a trap yesterday that had a dificulty of "0".

Was this a misprint? Does the trap automatically go off? or is it so easy to disarm that you only fail on a snake-eyes? Or is it another possibility that we didn't consider... we just rolled a die to decide whether it was an "easy open" or a misprint - decided that it was a misprint and the guy opened easy enough with his thief.

It is a misprint. AFAIK, it should be 10.
Check the FAQ if you want it more precisely :-)

General Stormfox, MKRealms FAQ department

Thank you.

And after doing an intense search - I finally located the Errata on the WK.com site.