Dragon Encounters

Traps

Trap Article

Pit Traps

Beholder (CR 13)

Boulder Traps

Ancient Copper Dragon (CR 21)

Mind-Game Traps

Quest for an Evil Dragon (also contains traps for an abandoned bandit hideout dungeon)

Ancient Green Dragon (CR 22) contains a variety of traps

Complex Traps

Solar (CR 21)

Cold Based Traps

White Dragon Wyrmling (CR 2)

 

Split the Party Traps

Yochlol (CR 10)

Lair Defenses

Dracolich (CR 17)

Ancient Silver Dragon (CR 23)

Gold Dragon Wyrmling (CR 3)

Adult Gold Dragon (CR 17) (Note: Passive traps, that work without the dragon)

Adult Copper Dragon (CR 14)

Adult White Dragon (CR 13)

Ancient Red Dragon (CR 24) Fire Based

Ancient Blue Dragon (CR 23)

Adult Blue Dragon (CR 16)

Other Traps

Nalfshnee (CR 13)

 

Minor Traps

Green Dragon Wyrmling (CR 2) Simple Traps, made challenging by the dragon’s presence.

Ancient Black Dragon (CR 21) Using simple traps as a minefield, to make fighting it difficult.

Doppleganger (CR 4) Basic traps, easily changed with a lever that can be pressed by either side.

Maralith (CR 16) Using timed traps and platforms to make movement tricky.

Darkmantle (CR 1/2) Simple Traps inside Darkness

Crawling Claw (CR 0) Extremelly Minor Traps to slow players

Bugbear Chieftain (CR 3) When the enemy is threatening to unleash danger, and can’t be easily stopped.

Monster-Based Traps

Cockratrice (CR 1/2)

Ankheg (CR 2)

Traps for the Player’s Arsenal

How to Fight a Dragon: Part 2

Complicated/Puzzle-like Traps

Displacer Beast (CR 3)

Erinyes (CR 12)

Puzzles

Hezrou (CR 8)

Coutal (CR 4) Turning change shape into a puzzle

Cloaker (CR 8) Basic puzzle, made tricky by a monster that is secretly an ally

Basilisk (CR 3)

Animated Armor (CR 1)

Tests of Character

Deva (CR 10)