Questions tagged [puzzle]
For questions related to the use and creation of puzzles in your campaigns.
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Are there D&D-5e resources that provide tips and methods for puzzle building?
I am running a play by post campaign, and will soon run a typical D&D campaign with a few players. I wish to de-emphasize combat to favor role-playing and the use of strategy, partly because of ...
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Invisible structures and floors
I’m preparing a puzzle tower for my players, with a twist. It’s one empty room that goes up four or five stories, but one wall is entirely a mirror that shows stairs, walkways, doors, etc that are ...
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How do I deal with instant-solution spells like Comprehend Languages?
I'm DM-ing an upcoming campaign and am considering banning or nerfing spells like Comprehend Languages because they can be used to instantly solve potentially interesting problems like reading an ...
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What effect would Knock have on a lock with multiple states?
A puzzle-based dungeon features a special lock. The first part of the dungeon involves collecting the three parts to the key, which can be assembled in six (3!) arrangements. Each arrangement, when ...
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Help with a riddle [closed]
I want an NPC to give some indications to the party (without lying), but I want these indications to be misleading at first sight, so that they by following what they understood, get to a wrong. I ...
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Dungeon with puzzle traps that force players to act as a team [closed]
I just started recently to DM a campaign (first campaign ever as DM), and I want to create a Dungeon with puzzle traps based on the concept of teamwork (much like that one SAW movie), and I have ...
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How do I communicate to my players that a door is, for the time being, absolutely locked to them?
I have a small dungeon in my campaign, a temple, that is a significant location for the broader story of my world. The players might very well enter this temple pretty early on in their adventuring. ...
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How can I present an "unsolvable right now" puzzle without frustrating my players?
I think me and my players are quite fond of puzzles in our TTRPGs, me designing them and they solving them. Last session I presented them with a puzzle that was unsolvable “at the moment”. I thought ...
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How can I handle a maze in a play-by-post game?
So, I'm going to be running a classic Mutants and Masterminds adventure next week, "Toys will be Toys". The crux of the game is the players racing their way through a series of rooms connected by ...
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How can my players even have a chance at resolving this Tomb of Horrors puzzle?
In the Tomb of Horrors hardcover from the Tales of the Yawning Portal, most of the time, when there’s a puzzle, either clues will be given to adventurers, or there will be an available check to solve/...
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What to roll to solve riddles?
I like to use riddles that the players are supposed to solve, like the classic “What walks on four legs at morning, two in the afternoon, and three at dusk?”
If a player is unable to answer a riddle, ...
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How to make traps and puzzles more engaging?
Inspired by the recent UA about Traps I considered making trap/puzzle encounters more common, but I don't know how to solve an issue, which was mentioned in our gaming group.
A player mentioned in ...
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How can I hide a chess puzzle in plain sight?
I'm working on a modern rural fantasy game, in which a house will be a dungeon. With the typical checkered linoleum pattern, the kitchen seems like a good place chess puzzle. I am leaning towards ...
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How can I make puzzles a challenge for the character, rather than the player?
I'm designing an adventure, in which at one point the party meets a giant who will only let them pass if they solve some puzzles. However, the problem is that the riddles are a test for the player, ...
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How to create a Number Puzzle? [closed]
I wanted to create a puzzle for my adventure. I found a very interesting book that has all sort of tips on how to create them: It´s called fourthcore alphabet. The puzzles there are very generically ...
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