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Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company
These were all, 100%, without exception, construction aids. Traps aimed at thieves and other infiltrators are basically all the product of modern adventure fiction, with the tiny exception of booby traps used in wartime over the past century or so, all of which have been made possible by modern technology.
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That's more or less my understanding. Though many fantasy RPGs like to have alchemical hand grenades, poisons better than anything actually available in the middle ages, and so on, which could substitute for modern technologies in certain 20th century booby trap designs.