I love them, but coming up with them is such a drag. People get paid a lot of money if they can write clever ones.
Anyone have a resource that could help me put some puzzles in a dungeon maze that are neither skill checks nor lady and the lion?
I'll post my favorite one I wrote a little later.
Quote from: Cranewings;444323I love them, but coming up with them is such a drag. People get paid a lot of money if they can write clever ones.
Why not leverage the work of the people paid money to write clever ones and buy a book full of puzzles? That's what one of the GMs in my group did for a dungeon-like environment. There seem to be some promising books with puzzles that might be suitable for use in a dungeon written by Joe Cameron on Amazon. Search for:
IQ Joe Cameron
Hey, thanks. I just got the PDF for it.
The party is planning to forge a copy of a spell book that the author didn't want to be copied. I thought it would be interesting if it sucked them into a variation of the maze spell, where they have to figure some crap out to get out.
I'll let them roll some INT checks if they can't figure it out for real but the girl playing the sorcerer is probably a boarderline genius so I'm not to worried about it.
The best one I had was from a demon that liked messing with people. It wrote the riddle - "If you say my name, you break me."
The answer is Silence. Nothing happened for getting it right - what it was, was a suggestion. The hall ahead was filled with horrible flying and stinging scorpions that wouldn't bother you if you were quiet enough.
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Another good one was a PC trying to figure out how to do a magical ritual from a dead wizards writings. A couple numbered candles were placed. The smart kid playing my game remembered that the number 18 came up a few times along the way, and noticed that he was able to make the candles add up to 18 like 6 or 7 different ways if he set them in their stands right.