What Do Traps Bring To The Game?

Are traps an interesting tool in the DMs bag of tricks or do they more often than not simply slow the game down and lead to predictable, overused, outcomes? If so, how might you spice them up to be more interesting and offer meaningful choices and decisions to your players rather than who is carrying the 10ft pole? Obliteration Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/