Hawk7915
2017-06-17, 02:51 PM
Hey all! My players (and one player in particular) generally enjoy some puzzles, riddles, or minigames within a session. I've done a few that went over great that I'll detail below, but my last session I had a fiendish star-shaped Sudoku style puzzle and it sucked every bit of fun out of the session for the night. So, I wanted ya'll's suggestions for puzzles that:
1) Are relatively fast breaks from a session - 10 minutes, tops
2) Are able to support, or even require, more than one player working on them.
I've already done the following:
- Deciphering encrypted stuff - usually also involving a riddle.
- A series of pillars granting a boss power-ups; these pillars needed to be relocked by certain elemental spells, 5th-element style.
- A secret door that had the password "Frost"; the trick was that the door spoke and conversed, and would only open if it was "tricked" into saying Frost itself as part of a conversation. (this was awesome and led to some great RP and confusion, but sadly feels like a trick that only works once).
If it helps, we're playing a modified Red Hand of Doom in 5E and they're gearing up to fight Ozyrandion after having just cleared Vrath Keep so any suggestions on specific puzzles you've used in that setting would be greatly appreciated!
1) Are relatively fast breaks from a session - 10 minutes, tops
2) Are able to support, or even require, more than one player working on them.
I've already done the following:
- Deciphering encrypted stuff - usually also involving a riddle.
- A series of pillars granting a boss power-ups; these pillars needed to be relocked by certain elemental spells, 5th-element style.
- A secret door that had the password "Frost"; the trick was that the door spoke and conversed, and would only open if it was "tricked" into saying Frost itself as part of a conversation. (this was awesome and led to some great RP and confusion, but sadly feels like a trick that only works once).
If it helps, we're playing a modified Red Hand of Doom in 5E and they're gearing up to fight Ozyrandion after having just cleared Vrath Keep so any suggestions on specific puzzles you've used in that setting would be greatly appreciated!