ephemeralstability's Profile

The characters are wasps from the devastated nest of Ys'drktha. The other survivors from the cataclysm are being held and tortured in the pits of the neighbouring Ak'thaan nest, being slowly dismembered and eaten by drone wasps or fed to the writhing masses of larvae.

As traps, obviously there are the standard protection glyphs which engulf you in fire or freeze you when you try to open locks. And then there are the non-standard ones...

Ettercaps (the spindly evil woodfolk) are always good for traps: their pine woods are so dense it's difficult to see what's a trap, what's a branch and what's an ettercap...