Stealth and Disable

When determining a hazard's combat statistics, first decide how the hazard can be located and how hard it is to disable. A hazard where the main challenge is how difficult it is to find, like memory crystals, might have a very different effect for its level than a hazard out in plain sight, daring a PC to try to disable it, like the laser turret or the monument to the Devourer.

When deciding how your hazard is disabled, come up with a narrative description of how it would happen, which will inform which methods and skills disable the hazard. You'll need to decide the proficiency rank necessary to find the hazard as well as disable it with each method. Remember, a hazard without a listed rank next to its Stealth DC is obvious enough that creatures can find it without Searching, and magical hazards without a listed rank aren't normally protected against detect magic. Most hazards built by intelligent creatures are concealed and have at least a trained rank. The Minimum Proficiency table indicates the high and moderate proficiency requirements by level; you can use lower proficiency ranks than the ones listed, and if you use the high rank, consider a secondary, perhaps less-efficient method to disable the hazard using a lower rank. For instance, the exploding egg sac environmental hazard can be disabled with expert Survival, or by a higher DC with trained Nature.

If you need a Stealth modifier for a complex hazard, just subtract 10 from the listed DC.