Good Puzzles?

JackGM

Hey All,
Looking for good puzzles, preferably stuff I can apply to nearly any scenario. I'm also looking for stuff that requires all of the skills of all of the party. Really, any help is appreciated. Thanks.

irokie

Puzzles can be tricky, and meta-gamey and it can be really tricky to figure out how difficult to make something. What I have seen work really well is putting simple puzzles in as part of combat. Something like "the room is filling with water, and there are four levers on the walls" - the party has to pull the levers to stop the water filling the room - pulling the levers requires an action or a check or something, and if they fail, the room fills and they have to find some way to escape.

I've a couple more examples of this kicking around somewhere if you're interested - there's the "stop the lich before he completes his summoning", and the "close the portal that keeps spawning demons/kobolds/whatever".

Here's a guy who did simple puzzles + towers really well: http://imgur.com/a/BmX3G