New DM here. Looking for insight into how others handle puzzles, riddles and such. Obviously if you make a puzzle or riddle you can see and hear and touch, the player has a good chance of figuring it out themselves. The issue I’m coming up with is, what if they’re character is dumb as rocks. For the sake of argument, if a character has an intelligence of 6, would they be able to solve puzzles and riddles a wizard with an intelligence of 16 can not?
The thing is, if I make an actual puzzle then rolling does not seem to be an option on if they figure it out or not. Now if I say, “you come up on a puzzle. Now roll.” That seems super lame.
New DM here. Looking for insight into how others handle puzzles, riddles and such. Obviously if you make a puzzle or riddle you can see and hear and touch, the player has a good chance of figuring it out themselves. The issue I’m coming up with is, what if they’re character is dumb as rocks. For the sake of argument, if a character has an intelligence of 6, would they be able to solve puzzles and riddles a wizard with an intelligence of 16 can not?
The thing is, if I make an actual puzzle then rolling does not seem to be an option on if they figure it out or not. Now if I say, “you come up on a puzzle. Now roll.” That seems super lame.
PC: Fitzroy Hammerstone - The Mad Empiricist of Corinth
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