I'm laughing at this now but if you gave me this puzzle tomorrow I'd still push that button at least 10 times.

@rhymeswithmoose228

4 жыл бұрын

Sl-slimcicle?!

@weirdsilvertetrafluorobora1655

3 жыл бұрын

Hold up what are you doing here

@bitsaucetv

3 жыл бұрын

Why did people only find this a week ago?

@rhymeswithmoose228

3 жыл бұрын

@@bitsaucetv I know it's weird

@bitsaucetv

3 жыл бұрын

Flynn Salazar nice pun

My favorite trap was an enchanted unbreakable door. The rogue couldn't decipher what can of lock it had, or if it were trapped. The barbarian couldn't sunder it. No spell could harm it, no divination could decipher its secrets. After an hour of game play the fidgety gnome ran up and yelled, "I pull the door open!". And it opened easily. You don't need complex traps, the party will make it complex.

@veggiedragon1000

5 жыл бұрын

Thexsoar the Bearded Something very similar happened in a game I was part of, we tried pushing the door open, it wasn't locked, we didn't have a crowbar etc. After sometime, we try pulling the door, and it opens. From then on, whenever we came to a door, "I push AND pull the door". Kind of an in joke :3

@imperator_productions

5 жыл бұрын

@@veggiedragon1000 "which way does the door open?" Is a very common question from one of my players.

@Shareyourworldwide

5 жыл бұрын

Literally the first door in the first game I ever ran. (Adventurers broke all weapons on that door before a confused kobold opened it from the inside)

@BlazeWill

5 жыл бұрын

@@veggiedragon1000 i kinda feel like that should be an assumed, i dont feel like i want to point out that i gotta do that for literally every door i ever deal with in DnD

@ShadwSonic

5 жыл бұрын

And of course, the classic "break the walls instead" approach... Seriously, it's all too easy for someone to forget that as being possible.

Incredible video!! My favorite you've ever done. Visuals were so cool.

@kingtreedede7303

3 жыл бұрын

Surprised this got so few likes and comments From a pretty well known youtuber as well

@sdrawkcab_emanresu

3 жыл бұрын

@@kingtreedede7303 almost 100.000

@penguinpirate8779

3 жыл бұрын

You guys know leomud? His hut is pretty dope

@Maninawig

3 жыл бұрын

This is still my favorite D&D quest.

@shebibscreations8544

2 жыл бұрын

At least it’s not the door puzzle

*prepares himself to hear about a party wipe. Suddenly remembers that this is Zee, not Puffin.* Oh. Yeah the players will be fine.

@falxblade1352

Жыл бұрын

Honestly the players are usually fine with Puffin

@S.k.y.n.e.t.

4 ай бұрын

Bruh, don't even get me started on Puffin. 😂😂😂

I press the like button

@HalfGroxus

5 жыл бұрын

Countdown 'till the next video starts counting

@expertionis794

5 жыл бұрын

The video restarts*

@BYERE

5 жыл бұрын

20... 19... 18...

@DanteOscilla

5 жыл бұрын

17...16....15...

@CLMURD

5 жыл бұрын

@@DanteOscilla 14... 13... 12... *I press the button*

*AI PREZ DA BATTN*

@TheChristmasNinja12

5 жыл бұрын

Triggered Arin = Best Arin

@rynemcgriffin1752

5 жыл бұрын

DeluxeTux5249 AI U POZITVE?

@codyallen2838

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheChristmasNinja12 Arin?

@nathanperez9596

4 жыл бұрын

I love how this comment has 2k likes but 4 replies

@DTux5249

2 жыл бұрын

@@rynemcgriffin1752 What else is there?

I used this twice: an adult group took 45 minutes. My kids (11 and 14 at the time) solved it in less than 1.

@FestiveRocket

5 жыл бұрын

They probably didn’t worry about death. They could’ve just tied a noos- *Nah*

@Elemental-Phoenix

5 жыл бұрын

An adult has the experience to recognize "Oh bad stuff is gonna happen when that reaches 0!" but kids don't care as much.

@restorasenrisei9991

5 жыл бұрын

The age strikes the difference of "How?" vs "Why?" as in "How do I open this door?" to "Why is this like it is?"

@YoshioSan

5 жыл бұрын

Given that traps are usually deadly, I wouldn't want to rush into anything. There's no quickload button.

@CH-bd6jg

5 жыл бұрын

@@YoshioSan sure there's a quickload. TPK, then come back playing as your character's identical siblings.

I've run this one for players a few times over the years. I always present it as a room similar to yours (button in the middle, slamming doors, etc) but I add small rates in the ceiling that start to push a heavy mist slowly into the room as the timer starts. The longer the players take the closer to the middle of the room the mist creeps, then when it reaches the middle of the room, covering the entire floor, I have it start to rise slowly filling the room. I describe it as feeling cool to the touch but not in a biting way, more like a thick cold wind but still. Then when the timer runs out the dias with the button on it raises and a grate under it sucks away all the mist. They find lore/notes/whatever later telling them it was a decontamination room.

@TheRaveweaver

3 жыл бұрын

This was my initial thought for this puzzle to incorporate it into my own campaign. I like your spin.

@theindiefanclub

3 жыл бұрын

I love this as a justification for this room existing!!

@master0fthearts894

2 жыл бұрын

“A decontamination room” has got to be the most hilariously logical explanation for this puzzle 🧩 I’ve ever seen. Nice work, Matt! 😂👍

@connorpratt8364

2 жыл бұрын

@@master0fthearts894 something that confuses me though, was the flashing lights Maybe the flashing lights served as a spell being casted, to ward unwanted curses of a specific level (y'know just in case someone has a curse backstory that doesn't want it to have thwarted yet or whatever) Written at 12:37 am

@Ajehy

2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant justification! When I had it in the hideout of a long-dead wizard, it was an intruder-stalling measure. Not everyone who came to her home would want to kill her, so she kept the lethal traps further in.

The elephant button punch was really well animated

@magecretio4133

5 жыл бұрын

ITS A LOXODON FROM RAVNICA

@obsidironpumicia4074

5 жыл бұрын

@@magecretio4133 So... elephant?

@Stupisms

5 жыл бұрын

how he hold the mace? quantum mechanics forbid this

@BadSkeelz

5 жыл бұрын

Especially when he punched it in the dark.

@nathanperez9596

4 жыл бұрын

@@obsidironpumicia4074 yes.

anxiety.mp4

@adwitatherealadwita

4 жыл бұрын

666th like

Countdown: *3....2....1....* *Doors open.* Poke: “I PUSH THE BUTTON!!* Party: “NOOOOOO!!!!”

@IceKyuubi

5 жыл бұрын

lolol my thoughts exactly!!!!

@enterchannelname2508

5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the halo 3 days when people would cancel the timer to stop matchmaking

@MambamboCombo

5 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of tron...

@kingtreedede7303

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine they were under it when someone pressed the button

@naomihatfield3015

Жыл бұрын

I keep rewatching that segment because the voice is so fantastic.

This reminds me of a puzzle trap I made for a homebrew campaign where the the players were trapped in a small room with an altar, an axe, a shield, a wand, and a bow on separate pedestals. The altar was inscribed with the phrase "Only those who know what is most important to a Monolithian may enter the tomb of the First Chieftain." They were searching an ancient tomb of the Monolith tribe of orcs, who are notable for their unshakable will and surprisingly liberal policies, allowing anyone to join their tribe if proven hardy and willing to contribute to the tribe's glory. Every time a party member would place an object on the altar, it would return to it's pedestal and they would get a nasty electric shock of 6d6, or half on a save. The room was sealed tight and their oxygen was running out. The barbarian wanted to just break down the door, but the other party members talked him down. 30 minutes later, with the party half dead from electric shocks, the barbarian went apeshit and slammed the door. It clicked, and slid open. The idea behind it was that to Monolithians, the most important thing is to always move forward and progress, without being hindered or distracted by petty ideas like race or class. We all laughed pretty damn hard about it afterwards, and they admit that the only person in the room thinking like an orc was the barbarian and that they should have just listened to him in the first place. To this day, I still look back fondly on that puzzle and can't wait to use it again in my new campaign.

@kevingriffith6011

5 жыл бұрын

One of my favorites, since we're sharing... This one works well for low-level characters since this doesn't require a lot of power or resources to solve, and high level characters will do what high level characters will do and blow the door up with amazing magic powers and tools... anyway. Imagine a heavy stone door whose handle is set into the jaws of an ornamental stone mouth (a skull, a wolf's head, doesn't really matter as long as it has pointy bits and looks cool) Depending on if you want to ramp up the spook factor or kind of broadcast the trap to the party, you could put a severed skeletal hand loosely wrapped around the handle... but really it's up to you. Should they attempt to turn the handle of the door, the jaws will slide in on the hand of the person turning the handle at roughly the same speed as the handle is turned. The jaws will not sever the person's hand should they turn the handle enough for the mechanism to permit the door to open, but they will deal 1 point of piercing damage to whoever has their hand around the knob, and will not release the person's arm until the door is closed. The trap was created by someone with a number of expendable acolytes who liked the guy more than they disliked punctured wrists, who would hold the door open for him as he did whatever business was required on the other side of the door. Effective at keeping singular infiltrators out of their secret stuff and all that. Forcibly withdrawing the person's hand from the door's teeth while they are imbedded will be quite nasty, and make it very clear that it will cause massive damage to the person in the door. (for me it's 1d6 dexterity damage and render the arm inoperable unless they receive a DC 18 heal check and and are returned to full health magically or naturally ... in addition to the 1d6 slashing damage because they just tore stone teeth through a dude's arm.) So now we have a puzzle (and a breach of the first commandment of game mastering, don't split the party) that the party can work through, and there are a number of ways to deal with it, more than I've thought of certainly. Mage hand can turn the knob, then the players just have to push the door open. Unseen Servant too. Once the door is open a rogue can access the mechanism and disarm it, releasing the door's grip on the victim's hand. (The rogue has no way to access the mechanism to disarm the door while it's closed... unless they can somehow phase through solid stone or otherwise break through to the mechanisms) Or.... the guy on the other side can just sit and wait for the party to search the room on the other side. If the party opts for this option... maybe make sure there isn't more than a room or two on the other side of this door so that they can respond to the separated person. Or you could have a light encounter creep it's way into the room, leaving the person with his arm in the mechanism a choice to seal his friends in to free his arm and face the enemy or awkwardly fight one-handedly and hope his party comes back to rescue him.

@yoshithesurgeon5853

5 жыл бұрын

Yoinking this for later

@WexMajor82

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevingriffith6011 You can put some water in the locking mechanism with shape water, and then freeze it solid. No more locking mechanism.

Wait, the way those numbers are stylised to look runic?! That's COOL STUFF.

@kylestanley7843

5 жыл бұрын

@@AliceHalley i do like how they did the 10's and 20's. Still readable, just cooler.

@elbruces

4 жыл бұрын

Dwarves take credit for everything.

@abacate4492

4 жыл бұрын

@BG - 11JJ - Port Credit SS (2272) that's correct

@Femaiden

3 жыл бұрын

they are arabic numbers, just stylized to look like a fantasy script. th 18,19,20 still look like 18,19,20 the 12,13,14,15,16, 17 is a 1 rotated diagonally, attached to the bottom of the other number 11 is 2 diagonal 1's mirrored amd attached by the bottms 10 ..looks like a 10 same with 7,8,9,5 the 6's are flipped, mirror style 3 is the most alien looking one 2,1,0 look like 2,1,0 but the 0 is a diamond instead of a circle. the point of this is that i'm pretty sure this is not what primordial or dwarvish would look like if the fantasy worlds was real. . . the PHB shows the alphabets in dwarven, elvish and draconic, but not the numbers so, i dunno. but based on the fact that they look nothing like the english counterparts, i higly doubt that primordial numbers would look so similar to arabic numerals

@Just.Kidding

2 жыл бұрын

@@AliceHalley Technically, wouldn't that make Dwarvish a Giant script?

If your characters are over using Detect Magic, you can use this one my old DM laid on us. We were traveling through a tunnel and had forgotten that we were playing a roleplaying game and had started playing swat team simulator, crawling over everything and examining every stupid little thing, causing the game to just slog by. When our caster spotted a wide swath of magic running through the ground and walls. It looked big and scary under detect magic, and so the caster used arcane sight to get a better idea of it. He determined that the type of magic was abjuration magic which only narrowed things down to some pretty scary possibilities. We spent half an hour and an entire day's worth of spells and a load of consumable item's trying to figure out what it was. Turns out it was literally just some concentrated ambient magic that had suffused into the wall. We spent half an hour and a ton of resources staring at the magical equivalent of a coffee stain on the carpet.

@Grease-Goblin

5 жыл бұрын

I had a fun "whoops" moment where one of our party detected magic on two massive stone doors, and we all just assumed it was a trap. So, naturally, I decide to dispel the magic. Then the DM tells us that this removed a magical effect that allowed the doors to open, and that they were otherwise impossible to move. Like, the two doors were a single, fused piece of stone that responded to a magic word, and now the effect was gone. So we left and found another way in. It did prove useful later on when we were beaten and bloody while running from the angry inhabitants in this area. We all just used our secret entrance while they tried to use the door. 5/6 of our party adventures on to this day.

@knight123x4

4 жыл бұрын

"IT MOVED!" "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

@JohnSmith-ex8iw

4 жыл бұрын

That was hilarious. I am totally using this the next time I run a game.

@bismuthcrystal9658

4 жыл бұрын

I've done something similar, but it was a narrow line, slithering steadily, wending about... all around them. They got very freaked out... by a plumbing system of holy water, keeping the undead imprisoned there trapped. I'll give you one guess what catastrophe the PCs unleashed upon the area.

@hariodinio

3 жыл бұрын

@@bismuthcrystal9658 drought

"... which did nothing but it was a cool idea." That and the dm having to answer a distracted player's "so whats going on now?" Is lile 80% of d&d

They need to make a leap of faith.... Poke: *I hit button* I couldn't stop laughing!

This will turn my players brains to mush. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Also you could call this "The Animated Dungeon"

@cdgonepotatoes4219

5 жыл бұрын

No, "traps illustrated"

@jonathangrey2183

5 жыл бұрын

@@cdgonepotatoes4219 Big oof

@janforberger675

5 жыл бұрын

You mean from the BUTTON of your heart?

@hazama0634

5 жыл бұрын

Jan forberger WELL now you'd best stop those puns

@Tank175

4 жыл бұрын

So, how did it go?

That was evil! Make the players freak the hell out for absolutely nothing! Lol

@imperator_productions

5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful and elegant you mean.

@Sparkbomber

5 жыл бұрын

Naw... Its actually a pretty good trap... Just something fun to break the grimness. A truly evil one would be one where they have to work a device once to get through the one-way door. Then it turns out they needed to have worked it x times so the other door at the end of the dungeon would open. =P

@Bluecho4

5 жыл бұрын

Although as a method of keeping out intruders, it's honestly kind of brilliant. Anyone who is _meant_ to be there will "solve" the puzzle no problem. They just press the button once, and wait. Anyone who isn't in the know, however, will stress themselves out, resetting the countdown repeatedly out of fear that doing otherwise would kill them. Thereby stalling them, possibly for long enough for reinforcements to arrive and clear them out. If the designers of the trap were _really_ lucky, the intruders would run themselves ragged, and/or weaken themselves heavily from lack of food, water, and sleep (because they need to keep pressing the button). Even if they figure the puzzle out, they'll come out the other side weaker. Diminished. More susceptible to later traps.

@soldiersPL

5 жыл бұрын

If you want it to be evil, integrate internal counter to it, to check how many times its pressed, and at lets say, 3-5 times, start flooding entire room with water/poison/nanotoxins/FUN(lava)

@nekoali2

5 жыл бұрын

Ah, but I love doing that as a DM. It's the same as not showing the monster in a horror film. The players always panic far more at the unknown nothing than any kind of real thing. Let their imaginations be their worst enemies.

“First, they tried hitting the well with a weapon. Nothing happened.” What a typical response from adventurers... It would actually be hilariously awful if a DM just let one of the players casually break the only thing that can open the doors of the room they’re trapped in. Player: “I hit the well with my warhammer.” DM: “Okay. Roll for attack.” Player: “Okay... 20!” DM: “The well shatters under the force of your mighty blow. The puzzle is now broken, leaving the entire party trapped forever in this sealed room.” Player: “...oh...” Other Players: “......When we run out of rations, we’re eating you first.”

@theendicott2838

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Schoenthaler from a new DM’s perspective, that would be a a amazing way to TPK.

@ScientistCat

4 жыл бұрын

why wait till you run out of rations, and have one more mouth to feed?

@thechaospony6037

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScientistCatit keeps The meat fresh

@minnion2871

2 жыл бұрын

@@thechaospony6037 I think his point was, eat the fresh meat first so that you don't have to waste rations on keeping the fresh meat fresh.

@Gamer_G33k

2 жыл бұрын

A small door opens an hour in, out comes a little goblin with a tool box. The party watches in silence as the Goblin repairs the well. After the work is done, he looks to the party, tips his hat, and leaves back through his little door. The party stare at each other in confusion and awe, then try the button. The room starts again.

40 minutes spent in a room with no traps, enemies, or treasure. Are you sure you weren't playing Paranoia?

@filipferencak2717

5 жыл бұрын

It's not a video game. You don't need to find traps, enemies or treasure every hour if you have a good group.

@filipferencak2717

4 жыл бұрын

@Michael Richard I know that, what does it have to do with my comment?

@josh8215

Жыл бұрын

This totally reminds me of Paranoia XP

@darkmatter9643

Жыл бұрын

Curse of strahd is like that some times

I have a similar puzzle that is more malevolent. In a room, pitch black, stands a brazier that just slightly glints in the shadows. Approaching the brazier, the hairs on the back of our neck stand on end- you can hear, shambling down the hall beyond, the tortured murmurs of perhaps a dozen zombies. “I cast fireball” says the wizard “I enter a rage!” shouts the barbarian “I turn back the foul undead with my holy power” says the cleric. The spell and blessed light erupts down the tunnel and the barbarian leaps among his foes- to find nothing. The light on the other side of the room is brighter, enough to illuminate there brazier chamber but it doesn’t. The barbarian hears nothing. Having watched their friend disappear into deepening shadows, the wizard readies a magic missile, to take out any zombies that get past. The shuffling and murmuring does not stop, and the battle cries of the barbarian cannot be heard. Lacking spellfire or a mighty axe, the rogue slips into the room behind her companions and decides that the darkness is a liability on this occasion, and casually tosses a tinder twig into the brazier. The fire illuminates the room, reveals the puzzled barbarian in the hallway beyond, and the zombie sounds promptly stop. Players swear loudly regarding the wasted resources. Somehow it works every time, so attuned to immediate attack are PCs.

@dairoleon2682

5 жыл бұрын

"I use Detect Favored Enemy: Undead" says the Ranger. "Guys, there's nothing there." Fun fact: my own 5E UA Ranger chose Humanoids and Giants for his Favored Enemies because lulz. Things got real interesting when my character used it in the middle of an otherwise normal town lorded over by Wights (a fact we were trying to ascertain) and my DM fucked up the response. Instead of saying "You detect no traces of humanity from the Hunt Lords," he said "You detect no humanoids within range." The radius was like 5 miles. There was a long moment of nervous and confused silence after that.

@adamflux2

5 жыл бұрын

@@dairoleon2682 Bold of you to assume I wouldn't tailor the enemy type to avoid such an obvious solution ;)

@RedshiftButterfly

5 жыл бұрын

@@dairoleon2682 Sounds like he worded it perfectly. Dramatic. Although to be fair, it sounds as if the undead to all intents and purposes seemed to be human(oid), so I probably would have ruled that it would have detected them as human(oid). That's some powerful magic after all, and rangers are... well you know.

@MonkeyJedi99

5 жыл бұрын

Two sessions ago, I was running a party of "several decades of experience each" players through a magically created complex of rooms with varying monsters and/or traps on the way to find a Dwarven artifact that the BBEG demon hordes wanted for some reason. They had fought their way though golems and undead rats and navigated a rather lethal trap with success. They entered a room lit and warmed by a wavering column of flame and they rushed in. "Ice Bolt!" "Magical arrow!" "Mighty slash with magical Nagamaki!" before they realized it was just a burning gas leak, thanks to the maze's ability to magically sustain breathable oxygen levels. That and a room with a talking statue that only lies prepped them for a beating by two constructs in a later room.

@jesternario

3 жыл бұрын

Replying to save this one for later.

Players come in two types Panicking over-thinkers Rash under-thinkers. I have both in my group. I loved this idea. 😈

to be absolutely fair, I've been in a group where the DM could be quite ruthless. Not unfairly so, but you definitely took every room with care. And... there was once a plain long hallway, with a door at the end. We spent fourty five minutes inspecting everything in this hallway for traps before we finally moved on.

About 3 years back I ran something very similar to this. Mine was in a Dwarven ruins deep in the ground, the room had 4 giant statues of Dwarves holding war drums in the corners, in the centre was a statue of a large muscular dwarf duel wielding weapons (when the players history checked it they found him to be a long lost deity), a pedestal rose out of the ground infront of the diety statue and contained an hour glass, on the pedestal was also a red button. The button as you might have guessed caused the hour glass to empty and then flip over almost instantly, every 5 seconds (quarter of the hour glass) the statues abruptly moved and raised their arms a bit more aloft (including the large hammer / mallet things in them). They pulled that room apart before they let the timer run out fully, eventually (it took about 15-20 minutes IRL if I remember correctly) they let it run out and the statues all did a drum roll; the locked door opened and presented them a throne room to the old Dwarven King.

@fernando47180

Жыл бұрын

hahah, the fact that you had a literal drumroll is what makes this story great

I used a similar variant of this puzzle once. My players were exploring a tomb, each room themed after a a different type of damage. In the psychic damage room, an inscription reads “Speak ‘Wait!’ for more time. The only other features of the room were two doors and a divot in the floor big enough for one medium sized creature. The first time they say “wait,” the ceiling slowly began lowering, and every time they said it afterwards, the ceiling would reset at the cost of 1 psychic damage to whoever said it-The PCs were all level 1 at this point. This lead to about ten minutes of the four of them scrambling to look for hidden doors, trying to prop up the ceiling with weapons, and eventually, deciding that only one of them gets to hide safely in the divot. They all laid down, waiting for the ceiling to crush them, until it stopped just before and both the ceiling and the sliding doors went up.

@kylestanley7843

5 жыл бұрын

A mind game in the psychic room. Smart.

@LuckySketches

5 жыл бұрын

That's evil. I love it.

@FeignJurai

4 жыл бұрын

I love this. I've seen the variant of this with a slowly descending ceiling before, that stops once it gets past the point where the button can no longer be reached. Adding a humanoid shaped divot in the floor so it seems like only one can survive has the potential to cause the party to fight over who it is that gets to survive. Also, the 1 damage to whoever "hits the button" is great to keep the puzzle from just taking forever.

I did something similar with my group. Large marble room, doors slammed shut as soon as they entered, the only thing in the room was an opening in the middle of the floor for 3 people to fit in, and a button on the bottom of that. They pressed the button, and the ceiling started to lower. Once the ceiling hit a certain spot, they would just reset it. Not wanting anyone to get crushed, as only 3 of them could fit in the hole. 2 of them offered them selves to get crushed, and they let the ceiling fall. Once it touched some one, the ceiling stopped, raised back up, and the doors opened. It's fun always getting traps like this, and sending them to the players just to see their reactions.

hey, we tried your room/puzzle! it took 6 players 48 minutes to figure it out and it was a blast, nice job

I just modified this puzzle for use in one of my dungeon encounters and my players spent about 40 minutes trying to figure out how to unlock the door. They're all so angry with me and I have never felt more alive

I push button Just like me when your vids come out

All of my players watch you so I can't use this, but I have used something like that before to totally stump players. It was just a door that required players to sing a Christmas carol. They refused to for over two hours.

I did this like 8 years ago when I was first getting into dming! There were some minor differences, for instance I had my players performing a set of puzzle challenges to prove themselves worthy of obtaining a special potion to help them progress. When the players pressed the button everytime, 2 ropes would dangle from the ceiling and a wooden pole would stick out of the ground. The ropes were attached to the ceiling and could not be removed without breaking them while the pole was completely removable and acted as a quarterstaff. These were both ploys to distract the players. I also had the owner of the potion able to communicate to the party so he could keep saying "oh dear, if you don't solve the puzzle quickly, you're gonna be dead soon!" Which made the party question what could kill them and fear for their lives. Eventually after an hour of constantly resetting the button, the players decided to make a large swing with the ropes and pole and try to avoid the floor which they thought might kill them. They let the timer reach 0 and after nothing happened I had a whole lot of furniture thrown at me and I wasn't allowed to dm for a good while haha.

I used a variation of this a few years ago. I made the party do it in real time, and every time that they pressed the button the timer increased by a minute. It got up to 7 minutes before the party tied up the gnome that kept pressing the button. The gnome was played by the only experienced player, and he was metagaming a bit to mess with the other players. The trap was a ton of fun.

I love when the players trick themselves with something simple

@RuSosan

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I once ran a campaign where the players arrived into a small coastal town which had recently suffered a tragedy: The mayor had been murdered by his daughter's lover because he was a dirt-poor nobody and the mayor had tried to force his daughter into marrying some baron's second son instead. The group was offered the job of bringing the murderer back into town to face justice and they accepted the bounty. THEN THEY SPENT THE NEXT 8 SESSIONS IN TOWN TRYING TO DETERMINE WHO THE "REAL" KILLER WAS because they were absolutely convinced that Occam's Razor isn't a thing and all the overwhelming evidence against the guy was faked by someone in town. In the end, after a narrative week of wasted time they came to the conclusion that it had to be the mayor's dead brother's ghost that did the deed. For whayever reason, since the mayor and his brother had always been on good terms and the death of his brother had been a devastating loss for the mayor. I don't even... Ugh. Meanwhile the actual killer had already fled the kingdom and disappeared with his love interest sooooo job well done. xD

I had a similar puzzle. A riddle that demanded you shout the answer and if you're wrong you get prismatic beamed by a giant glowy eyed statue. The answer was to not answer the riddle at all and just walk by and the statue wouldn't notice you.

@LuckySketches

5 жыл бұрын

Was there also a correct answer they weren't supposed to figure out or was the answer to the question "scilence" or something?

@hangover89

Жыл бұрын

A Dr McNinja reader huh

I used this puzzle in a session and it worked great. Counting down continually really helped cement their action as being 'in real time'. People tried various things, but eventually let it go to 0. The place they were in was taken over by hostile targets but not built to hold them out, but to hold something else in, and the lack of a damage based trap and gained enchantment really helped cement that into their minds.

I did a version of this puzzle for my players a while ago. They were exploring the Tomb of a dwarf king and had to collect gems to open the centre of the tomb eventually they reached a room and the door shut behind them the room was lined with stone statues of dwarfs aiming crossbows. In the centre was a pedestal with a button and at the end of the room, there was a large set of scales with the skeleton of a dwarf at its base with crossbow bolts sticking out of it. Above the scales was a Flipboard that counted down from 10 to 0. my players solved it in about 15 minutes but in hindsight, I wish that I made it as dramatic as the one you did. If I ever get a new group then I'll have to use it again.

I'd go with "Animated Dungeon". Not just because it could be used to spotlight various ideas concerning dungeon design, but because it reminds me of the old DUNGEON Magazine that TSR/WotC used to publish.

We need more traps. The dangerous ones.

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

*Astolfo laughing in the background*

@jrm48220

5 жыл бұрын

And the sexy ones.

@raidofive1153

5 жыл бұрын

Phraaaasing?

@meep2k

5 жыл бұрын

the gay ones?

@callmeeuan8372

5 жыл бұрын

Alanis Tharon there both dangerous

If I remember correctly a vault from fallout had a similar dilemma but a bit different every few years the vault dwellers had to sacrifice someone or something bad would happen and this went on for decades until something happened (I can't remember) that left the vault abandoned when the player arrives turns out nothing happens if don't sacrifice someone. The guys at vault tec are sadistic assholes

@somethingotherthanmyrealname

3 жыл бұрын

The remaining people decided that they didn’t want to sacrifice anyone anymore, so they decided not to, and discovered that it was all an elaborate test. Worst of all, a recorded message congratulated the people for being “morally upstanding and not sacrificing anyone.” Most of the people in the Vault decided to kill themselves out of guilt after that.

@NoNameAtAll2

Жыл бұрын

Lost TV series

@KingZolem

Жыл бұрын

​@somethingotherthanmyrealname And by "most" we mean two as there were only three survivors of a blody civil war that broke out in the end as people fought to not get sacrificed, anarchy broke out, and there were only three people left who decided "whatever it wants to do to us can't be any worse".

Traps and puzzles are always something I've struggled to impliment...more animated traps and puzzles would be amazing

I did a version of this years ago, only the button flipped an hourglass, we used an egg timer to represent it. Took the better part of an hour.

@Bluecho4

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, that's a good one. Keeps the pressure up, and in a non-abstract way that often kills tension in a tabletop RPG. Stealing that.

I saw this on Reddit a few years back and tried it on my players. Used it in the context of a sewer that used a gelatinous cube to clean its filth. It was for a saferoom for maintenance staff from the cube, but the players didn't know it. The idea is that staff can run in and they'd be safe from the ooze so long as they kept resetting the orb. There was an orb within the room and one player ran into the small room. As they entered, a magical force field formed on all the entrances and the orb glowed green (for safe). As it slowly counted down it turned yellow, and then red. Durimg that, the party was running around the room with a gelatinous cube chasing them the entire time, trying everything in their power to free their friend while not gettimg caught up in the cube's acidic ooze. My players are pretty good at NOT overthinking it and I wasn't experienced enough to make the "trap" seem more dangerous as the timer counted down. After resetting it only twice, they let it run down and the player was free. In retrospect, the ooze itself wasn't that dangerous either since they kept kiting it around the saferoom. Next time I do the encounter, I'm going to make sure to up the stakes.

@thatguy5391

3 жыл бұрын

Ad some black ooze or maybe slimes maybe a second galantonous cube?

@minnion2871

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatguy5391 Or just have the safe room at the end of a hallway?

*DM:* _Okay, this is the first puzzle and its simple, all you have to do is press that button and wait._ *Players:* [Video Above]

@nathanholyland9493

4 жыл бұрын

My dm springed this on my party and we hadn’t watched this video and we were all fooled

I can feel the exact moment where you decided to homebrew in the idea that the door will shift as players leave the button alone, only to feel frustrated that they keep pushing the damn thing.

My version of this is something I will keep talking about till someone stops me. The players are walking around and encounter a high level monster. I like to use John, a well-mannered, well dressed Mind Flayer that approaches the party in a similar manner to the G-Man from Half Life. John approaches, introduces himself and then directs the players down towards a special area he's prepared. He explains he has a task the party must undertake, overing glittering prizes if they succeed. They can try to fight John but he is waaaaaaay too powerful for him. Experienced players will know this, hopefully telling those that haven't memorized the Monster Manual by now. Newer players are told of an uneasy air about him, if the fact that he is communicating through telepathy didn't cue them in that this is a powerful guy. If the party attacks him, he'll defend himself but not hurt the players seriously, redoubling on his claim that he only wishes for the party to take his test. If they really don't want to, he'll back off and vanish. Accepting will take the players down into a prepared area, my usual spot so far has been a suspiciously quiet fishmongers. The party will be directed towards chairs set out for them all, around an unassuming table. John sits and clicks, a mountain of chips and playing cards appear. And then I get out a set of poker chips and playing cards. Then we actually play Poker. Deliberately, John is very bad at Poker, being way too aggressive and overconfident, and I allow the party to cheat as much as they like. They can cast spells if they think they can get away with it. They can use their Insight and abilities to read John's face for tells (he has lots but it's difficult because squid face) to gain an upper hand. The players are never explicitly told that they're in danger but the mood and odd situation should put them a little on edge. They are also removed, suddenly vanishing once they lose all their chips and are eliminated from the game. This suggests something nefarious, raising tension nicely while the players attempt to beat John at his game, FOR THEIR LIVES (so they think). Of course, John is terrible at Poker even though he really likes it and loses. Happy to have played a hand and lost, he then rewards the party as promised. I've used this for plot hooks where John uses this as a test of metal and thinking outside the box for his employer, such as Loki. Upon winning, he brings the party members back. It's supposed to be all verses John, tipping the favour in the players way a little more. Even if John wins, the party wakes up as if nothing happened back in the alleyway they found him in, a good chunk of change poorer as John has collected his winnings and left. But I've had it so that John grants vital information, magic items and even just a chunk of gold when he loses to show he's a reasonable guy. The idea is to show that not everything is here to immediately kill you and introduce you fully to my DMing style. I like weird ideas and I hate the idea that just because the books say so, it has to be. I'm in charge, what I say goes so don't rely on your knowledge so much. Great, you know that Unicorns are powerful magical creatures but don't expect them to be honorable and kind because I've made one a serial killer before. I've had honourable demons serving in state armies. I've even had gods be almost as mortal as the people that worship them, just no one has ever found out. I'm going to be playing around with this stuff and I adore messing with assumptions. I also find some of the monsters in the manuals so cool and interesting, I'd rather have them as protagonists than something bland and staple like a Unicorn or a Fairy or a Human king or whatever. I've had games where humans are extremely rare and common is spoken by few. And even then, badly, forcing players to have to work together to translate for each other to get things done for a truly alien feel to a city. I am the guy that will make Fairies into rabbid, savage and selfish creatures that attack like wasps. I would happily make a Cambion your local priest that keeps corgis. I would happily make a Mind Flayer just want to play poker with you because he gets bored easily. It also has a lovely 'event' feel to it. It sticks in the brain nicely as 'that time I played poker with a mind flayer'. I love telling the story and I love it when my players relay their version.

@ChargeQM

5 жыл бұрын

... A serial killer unicorn who wants to preserve the purity of fair maidens so much, he feels the only way to ensure it is to kill them before they are 'despoiled'? Holy shit I've found my next monster of the week.

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

@@ChargeQM yeah, that needs to become a part of a cannon adventure.

@TyroKitsune

5 жыл бұрын

That's perfect. I like Kobolds a lot too. I like the idea of a Kobold Holy Warrior. Like, only 4 foot tall and barely speaks Common but is so fast, nimble and capable that he takes the party under his wing to teach them in his retirement years that are proving to be weirdly dull. I also enjoyed the idea I had for a Neverwinter adventure. A noble has returned on the back of a dragon. And claims they are to marry soon as the dragon transforms. The party are jobbing adventurers assigned to the wedding planners when they find interference from those looking to disrupt the wedding or gain access to such a powerful creature as a Dragon.

@LRpaul145

5 жыл бұрын

I have this one player in my current, villainous, campaign who seems to be a savant of Elven lore from previous editions and a real powergamer. Any ideas to help him come around to the "it doesn't have to be like the book says" idea, or just get him to stop nattering on about "the good old days"? Preferably while not looking like *too* much of a dick? I have this one idea for his goddess being revealed as a once-mortal elf bonded with an eldritch monstrosity, but that's late-game stuff. He currently wants to get infected with Lycanthropy, despite the risk of going feral without warning.

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

@@LRpaul145 let a werewolf bite him, add rabies so that he goes feral every time he transforms (or have him role Con saves to be calm), then pay the group handsomely with quests that keep them in a small city on the full moon, have him go feral and get put down by the watch. He KNEW that that was a risk of lycanthropy. Alternatively instead of Rabies just have him roll against you to determine if he goes feral, fudge the roll and have him get killed or impounded. Just play with the logical extensions of his choices to make it fun when he does something not powergamey, and not fun for him if he sticks to nothing but powergaming. To add some fun to it, make sure that the more people roleplay, the lower the DCs or give them advantage for really good roleplaying (don't tell them though, just give the rewards you feel they've earned), and if he doesn't catch on quickly and just created another powergamey character, just hint to him that he might find some fun without needing to be op.

I used a similar puzzle to mess with the heads of my players. After a short track through the sewers, they encountered a door with no handle, 5 holes filled with different gemstones. So naturaly the player moved the gems in different orders to unlock the door. However, no combination worked. Until, after 20 minutes, someone took out all the gemstones and the door opened. Received some annoyed faces, but it we had great fun. I think I going to use this puzzle for something down the line. It's a great unexpected solution where the players are the ones building the tension.

@chrisschoenthaler5184

5 жыл бұрын

TheRookie121 1. Why was there a gem-encrusted door in the sewers? 2. If the door is opened by removing all of the gemstones, isn’t that kind of the worst locking mechanism ever? Someone could just want to steal the gemstones, and not even care about the door. They would accidentally open the door forever by doing so. Just seems like a design flaw. I’m not saying this wasn’t clever or creative, but it is a very... questionable decision on the part of the door-maker.

@TheRookie121

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrisschoenthaler5184 1. The door led to a tunnel where the thievesguild were situated. That tunnel hides different rooms behind seamless doors. And... 2. The door lock mechanisms are indeed flawed, but serve more as a final test for new members. And as a mind boggling puzzle for the players.

@retrovortex624

5 жыл бұрын

What if you made it tiny sculptures of monsters and on the wall a message simply says "Make it safe"

"I HIT BUTTON AGAIN" "are you serious?" "What else is there????" "...fine."

I remember seeing this same trap in that old animated series Unforgotten Realms, years before I ever played DnD. It's funny how this trap seems so nostalgic to me despite never encountering it, just because an old web show featuring it is one of the things that made me want to play DnD in the first place.

Idea: puzzle of two doors. A room where the path splits in two. There are two doors, each looking different. One is a very lovely door. It is made out of wood, very smooth and well-made. It is painted white and decorated with colourful flowers, and on it, in winding, flowery letters, it reads "danger". The other door is made out of a very gnarly type of wood, put together with rough iron nails. Across the door, scratched into the wood in very angular and angry-looking letters that have been coloured in with some blood-red liquid, it reads "safety".

@RaulDiaz-mp8ms

5 жыл бұрын

My party and I pull both doors, but not going through them.

@martijnvanweele6204

5 жыл бұрын

@@RaulDiaz-mp8ms I guess some would do that. I was planning to place the puzzle in a character development-centered sub-adventure for my players. The idea was based upon the Temple of a Thousand Doors from Michael Ende's _Neverending Story._ The players would find themselves in a temple consisting entirely of hexagonal rooms with three doors each (including the door they entered through). The temple exists in a demiplane between the planes, and if you choose your doors wisely, it can lead you anywhere you like. By the magic of the temple, you can only pick one door and have to commit through it. You cannot see what is on the other side until you step through, and the door magically locks behind you when you do. The first rooms would be focused on dividing the players, after which I would give each player a series of doors representing character choices in some cryptic manner. Basically, the temple forces them to consider who they really are, and in return, will lead them to where they need to go.

@william4996

5 жыл бұрын

I like this. I'm stealing it. Thank you.

@hugopolishoward5375

5 жыл бұрын

martijn van weele so like the Chinese game with money a toy and a book money meaning you desire only wealth toy meaning happiness is what guides you and a book meaning knowledge at least to you is power but like in temple form and more choices like save your hide or a bystander your life or a party member you like or you hate

@martijnvanweele6204

5 жыл бұрын

@@william4996 Feel free. I'd be honoured.

3:36 South African accent! Represent!

@user-pm1gb2eo1s

5 жыл бұрын

Shannon Bennetts I am disappointed in myself that I did not even recognize my own country’s accent. I will now hang myself on a rope made of biltong

@zeebashew

5 жыл бұрын

@@shannonbennetts A fate worse than death.

@robadc

5 жыл бұрын

@@shannonbennetts I can still hear them. I've fled across the world but there is no escape from the phantom memory of the early morning *HEAAAAAAAH!!! *

@user-pm1gb2eo1s

5 жыл бұрын

Rob DC They are the scourge of mankind. My next D&D campaign is just going to be a dry safe to eradicate them from the face of the earth

It's basically that trap from the Oglaf comic where it's just the word "overthinking" written on the wall. I love it.

"But that's another story for another time." I'm expecting that other story.

Animated Sword seems to be the DM-y bits. This is a DM-y thing.

I'd be down for an animated traps series. Also, WOW that puzzle was brutal. I loved it.

Yo, is that Wades in Shadows and Poke? Oh hey, it totally is.

Ahh the old timer puzzle. My first run in with this was in the tower of ultimate wizardry in the unforgotten realms web series. Love watching the insanity of over thinking the puzzle on my players faces.

My players would go crazy if I pulled such a tricky on them.

@chrisschoenthaler5184

5 жыл бұрын

NoroNoro the Traveller It hardly even counts as a “trick”, though. It’s rather simple and straightforward. Nobody could blame you for any time lost as a result of *their* paranoia. The room simply counts down to the door opening.

@thiagonon

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrisschoenthaler5184 Let me rephrase that then. Honestly if I used this room (which I probably will) my players would go apeshit crazy with paranoia, spend 2/3 hours in it and probably kill themselves trying some crazy shenanigans. It's a great room but I don't know if my current table would get the gist. Ps: I love my little murderhobo players btw💚 hope to grow to be a good dm narrating for them

@chrisschoenthaler5184

5 жыл бұрын

NoroNoro the Traveller I could tell what you meant. It was just a little joke. (Seriously, though, you have a pretty solid defense here. Nobody can blame you when things go south, and it will probably be hilarious.)

@thiagonon

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrisschoenthaler5184 I promise to ring you the details of the chaos that unfold when I get the chance to use this amazing room!

@chrisschoenthaler5184

5 жыл бұрын

NoroNoro the Traveller You don’t need to tell me. You just need to work on your poker face. Wouldn’t want the players getting suspicious...

My group had a fighter anxiously looking for traps and a monk felling a tree by the might of his fists simply because I said, the approached too trees whiches branches resemble somewhat the shape of a gate. I was just trying to give the place some interesting looks. Nah, they went full paranoid.

@tanith117

5 жыл бұрын

At least they didn't attack the gazebo

@PrimordialNightmare

5 жыл бұрын

Well, maybe, one day, they will XD

I pulled a FAR less complex version on my player’s back in my teenage years. Just a steel room, a bunch of ominous looking grated & holes in the walls, and a 3-minute egg timer that started counting down the moment they were all trapped. I handed them the egg timer and let them tie themselves in knots... fun times ;)

Every time they reset it, the final boss of the dungeon grows stronger

Is that Wades-in-Shadows? I wonder if he ever ended catching Wick?

Is Poke a Frost Goblin?

@bastionunitb7388

5 жыл бұрын

I think so He looks just like how he draws his other frost goblins

@petersenior5432

5 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't know why the black dragonborn is hanging around them though, since the frost goblins killed one of his friends.

@TecoEvi

5 жыл бұрын

@@petersenior5432 could have been a different group of Frost Goblins? Not tied to that PC.

@petersenior5432

5 жыл бұрын

@@TecoEvi I more meant that it was Frost Goblins in general that killed the other PC... I'm sure there was some long RP'd out sequence of events that got them to trust e/o.

@adamdraeger2605

5 жыл бұрын

@@petersenior5432 At the very end of the healing word animated spell book, they chase that last frost goblin to the ropes, and he climbs up with them. The guy playing Sweet Willem must have switched to playing him.

The idea of drawing/painting a door with the enchanted weapon is actually really cool! Nice vid :)

Twas just the magical break room. Had a bowl of enchantment and everything. (Please only take one.)

That's fucking hilarious. The suspense, the tension, the anxiety. I love it. I could definitely see this being useful for getting your party to relax a bit. Very insightful and equally amusing. lol

The puzzle was predictable, but the animation and narration were so great, it made me shiver now and then, and wait for what the players decide to try next. I loved it very much)

@andrewjohnson6716

2 жыл бұрын

It’s kind of like the difference between watching a quiz game on tv (you get all the answers because there’s no pressure) vs playing a quiz game where you have an audience, being filmed, and having thousands of dollars and your self-worth on the line. Puzzles like this seem totally predictable when you watch them in a video, but try it on a party of players and they will second-guess an entire gaming session away.

I put this puzzle into a homebrew. The party pressed the button and just let it countdown and then left the room. They didn't even try anything. I wish my party reacted the same way as this video. Still one of my favorites though.

Gotta love it when your players overthink a puzzle to high heaven. I had a chest in a dungeon with thing required for progression, two rooms over was the key. My party spent 20 minutes trying to open it without using the key. They ended up having 2 party members enlarge the chest, almost taking up the whole room, and another used mage hand to get the important items out.

6 minutes of cool visuals and great storytelling is all I need to live thank for allowing me to see another day 🌹

I would probably just sit on the button.

ah, the red-herring.. not the pointiest stick in my DM toolbox.. but its definitely one of my favorites to throw into the mix.. the hardest part of putting one in game is trying not to laugh at the wrong moment..

I've seen this several times. My favorite was a version that included a screaming goat and a giant screen when the count down was happening. At this point I can recognize whenever I see it.

Man, I finally put this into my session and my party played it sooo similar. Perfect. After they went out of the room I showed them this video and we all had a laugh and continued on. Great concept, cheers!

You’re definitely getting the hang of the new software you’re using, the coloring and shading is *_wonderful !!_*

This reminds of a thing they did in Dead Space. Many elevators, if not all of them had vents like enemies would normally crawl through, about halfway through the game, one would crawl out and attack the player in a jump scare, this only happened once during the entire game, but the rest of the game players would cautiously check every elevator vent

@Keyce0013

3 жыл бұрын

Many of the rooms in Dead Space had man-hole sized vents in them that were used as monster closets. I think you could disable some of them if you shot off the vent covers before the necromorphs started to attack you.

This is a good puzzle to throw at your players while you plan ahead. It keeps them occupied and terrified as you rummage through your notes, making them think you're looking at scenarios for that room, when you're just trying to keep the aboleth's puzzle separated from the beholder's.

Thanks Zee, your videos are some of the best dnd content on KZread and watching them is a pleasure

Unforgotten Realms. Ultimate Tower of Wizardry.... meow

I love the fidgety kicking legs animation on the wizard. Very cute and a nice touch!

I work at an elementary school and decided as a fun excercise to see if I could get a group of 1-4th graders into the game. Seeing as they’re new and young I wanted to introduce them to both combat and puzzles. I started with a fight with a gargoyle to get their blood pumping, which they delt with pretty easily. Then I pulled this one on them. With their blood pumping, it took them about 15 minutes of shouting and smashing at the door, but they got it quickly comparatively. No expectations, no training, just suspense. They were talking about it for the next two hours. Thank you for helping me spread the love of these games to the next generations.

when your a gm and you think all that security isn't enough....just do the button trap. totally stalls the gameplay for 40 minutes. amazing. i gotta try this.....

For some odd reason... I absolutely love DnD puzzle videos! :) I love the extra details you put into the classic button puzzle... and that story-telling + animation is top-notch! Well done! Oh... and loxodons. :)

I've never wanted to play DnD more than now with this group cause it looks like it would be a BLAST to play

I've seen the button room in a book of puzzles and traps I have. I hadn't considered using it b'c it's literally "Just let the clock count down". Having watched this, I see the potential of the room and I am absolutely gonna use it now

Oh shit! That's Wades in Shadows and Poke!

So the puzzle was actually a trap, making you think it's a puzzle. And when you give up solving it, you get blessed for solving the puzzle. Am I a joke to you, Zee?

The way you ratchet up the tension in this one is pure gold, man. I love it!

Oh The "Lost" Room

YES. BEAUTIFUL. NEVER STOP.

Was that a Loxodon I see there, very happy if it was.

@peaceanquiet4528

5 жыл бұрын

could be, they were introduced in the Ravnica expansion cause you know..Magic

@sdrawkcab_emanresu

3 жыл бұрын

One player in our group is a Loxodon

Man i simply can't tell how i love your content. So entertaining, funny and intriguing.

I had a wizard locked(2E) steel door and stone walls. My dwarf tunneled through the wall in 10 min.

Love your stuff man

What an excellent early warning system! That sort of cerebral fake-out setup could give any creatures within the rest of the dungeon SO much time to prepare for the PCs! They could have even conducted entire rituals! Just one question -- why didn't it activate before all 4 party members were in the room?

@hugopolishoward5375

5 жыл бұрын

The dm said so as he often likes to say to me

@Bluecho4

5 жыл бұрын

If it takes long enough for the intruders to figure out the trick, they may even be physically and psychologically weakened by prolonged confinement (and the stresses of having to baby-sit the button). It's kind of hard to put up much of a fight, if you spent so long in the room you're sleep deprived and dying of thirst.

@matthewshiers9038

5 жыл бұрын

@@hugopolishoward5375 Yup, heard that one before! I can't be too mad at any DM who tries to keep the group together, but it's so hard to keep up suspension of disbelief when things happen just a bit too conveniently.

@FightingDuskstalker

5 жыл бұрын

@@matthewshiers9038 So whatever magic or mechanism that detects people and closes the door has some kind of timer built in. Say 30 seconds or so which resets if someone else enters the door within that time. So that way a whole group can go through decontamination or whatever all at once.

@matthewshiers9038

5 жыл бұрын

@@FightingDuskstalker Sounds pretty advanced for a DnD campaign though. I get that these mechanisms are kinda standard fare in today's societies -- automatic doors are not uncommon and calibrating the timer that keeps them open would be fairly simple for the right technician -- but the DnD world just feels less fun when magic becomes a stand-in for aspects of modern technology. DnD is a world where mages can make common dwarves sprout wings, druids can control the weather and clerics can instantly reverse wounds that would normally take days or weeks to heal. Even if magic is the theme and flavour of a particular dungeon, it still feels off when a room "magically" waits for the whole party to enter. Heck, hostile territory shouldn't even be that convenient for the players in the first place.

Someone recently made a TikTok about a very similar idea, so of course I had to dig out this old gem and watch it again, and... 5 years? Holy smokes. Oldie but a goodie.

Man, Wades-in-Shadow gets around.

My approach: *see button with a handsymbol on it* -> *Unequip a shoe and put my bare foot on it* Gotta know how intrecate the place is. Also button are made for presses!

Now I've never done or seen this done before, but I can just imagine a DM create the most trolling, devious, and insidious dungeon ever. It's obscenely frustrating, though possibly non-lethal with all sorts of tricky traps. And after hours of the party banging their heads against the wall and being worked into a paranoia, they throw a single, unenchanted, untrapped door at them. It doesn't do anything. You can push or pull it to open it and move on.

@Keyce0013

3 жыл бұрын

Putting the non-trapped door at the end of the dungeon is too cliché.

Arguably the ultimate puzzle trap. The trap, is literally your own mind. Wild.

Can’t believe I haven’t started watching these earlier. These are so awesome. The animation kicks ass