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[Daetrin]

At one point I had a bunch of parallel hallways where, from a pressure plate about halfway through, it would block off both sides, flood it with magma, then drain and reset.  It worked really well, but it requires a lot of work and magma doesn't evaporate quickly so you need quite a few if you want to deal with a large siege or a bunch of ambushes at one time.

I'm thinking I might use a modified toilet trap with only one hatch, on the fort side (to make it troll-proof) and set up a bunch of hatches over a one-wide hallway with deep pits on either side.  Several of those in parallel would probably work, and at the bottom if everything splattered on a retracting bridge I could dump stuff into magma when the water dried and collect the goblinite at my leisure.

[Korgus]

I'm not sure if this is possible, but I have an idea.
If you drop flaming animals on your enemies and they blow apart, could the flaming body parts set your enemies on fire?

[Eric Blank]

Yes actually, they would cause them to catch fire if exposed for long enough periods (not exactly sure, but certainly 1 burning object across the hall won't cause them any harm.) Your best bet is still probably magma or lignite (lignite needing to be exposed to magma in order to begin burning.) Or an alchemy reaction that produces infinitesimally burning oil for you... Poisonous oil to place along side it that boils and causes massive hemorrhaging...

But do body parts from a burning animal remain burning after the animal has been destroyed? I don't know...

As for my favorite trap, I like to place marksmen behind fortifications along a trap corridor, also having a short dodge-pit trap before meeting my melee troops.

I want to make a labyrinth of various wildlife, mega/semi-megabeasts, titans, and FB's to toss goblins into. Or to unleash upon them after sealing them in a massive empty room via collapsing cast-obsidian walls. One way in, but can you get out?
That would require sacrificial animals to get the beasts back in their labyrinth, or out into the room...

Maybe a wide, deep chasm with balistae and marksmen on the opposite wall as I've heard described on this forum. The path could be narrow and include weapon traps.

[Korgus]

It'd work if you used a lot of animals and locked the enemies into a small room. Much easier to just use magma though, since you'd be using it to set the animals on fire anyway.

[krenshala]

The idea of making a Dodge This, and having enemies fall two z-levels into a labyrinth with a minotaur or five in it just tickles me.  If I ever end up find one, I'm going to be sure to build one.