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Thanks for the continued feedback, everybody. I hadn't realized this would end up being a discussion of puzzles in general! Just to be clear, when I run this particular puzzle in my adventure, it's optional. If the PCs prefer to use skills to get through the challenge, they may do so. So...

Good stuff. It's becoming clear that a lot of players approach a presented puzzle by saying, "How can we bypass the puzzle?" rather than, "Cool, a puzzle! Let's solve it." To which I say there are two equally valid DM responses is. The first is, "Great, you bypass the puzzle! Moving on..."...

Great questions! I've thought about these, too, and have mostly hand-waved them. For number 1, the drow who live here reset the trap by rebuilding the broken tiles when something falls through. For number 2, I had exactly that scenario happen one of the times I ran the game, and I was okay...

You did great at showing me how people are likely to approach this puzzle! This is a big part of what I was hoping to get by posting it here. However, you did not find the correct solution. I understand where your logic was coming from, though, and I could totally see a party following the odd...

Sorry, I was trying to keep the original presentation simple. The way the PCs know about tiles being unsafe could be handled in different ways. In this particular adventure, I tell the PCs that their training in certain skills (dungeoneering, theivery) lets them recognize this as a trap, and...

Stepping on a false floor tile results in falling in a pit and taking some damage. Not instant death, but it hurts. I don't know if that helps or not.

Thanks for the feedback. The solution you proposed isn't it, but I can see why you might guess it. I'll repost the hints from my blog here in a set of spoiler blocks: Hint 1: The rune for the number 1 is carved on the east wall, above the exit. Hint 2: The rune for the number 3 is carved on...

I built this puzzle for a 4e adventure, but since it's system-agnostic I figured I'd share it in General. The full write-up is over on my blog, but in a nutshell the party enters this room from the left and is trying to cross it to the right. The tiles of the floor have runes on them, and it's...

I'll admit that extreme accuracy bugs me, too. Yes, it's SOMEWHAT balanced out by weaknesses in other areas (certain defenses), but those seem to be far less important than attack accuracy in most cases. And if we're talking about a class that gets all of that accuracy from Dexterity (thief...

I'd house-rule it to say that the PC takes damage equal to its healing surge value, but that's just me.

I run 4e games in MapTool, so I was intrigued when the Virtual Table came out. I played with the beta a little bit in its earliest days (before the monster and PC import functionality existed) and was unimpressed, though I understood it was a beta. Being able to automatically import monsters and...

I thought I'd share a minion I put together for my next adventure. There's more about it over on my blog, but the stat block is below. He's kind of fun in waves.

Look for any modules labeled as H1 (low-heroic) with the CORM prefix. I've only specifically run one off the top of my head: CORM 1-1 The Black Knight of Arabel. It's a fun module, and I've run it several times. I'm sure there are others at Living Forgotten Realms

Bold or Stupid said it well. The scope scales with level. (Could someone XP him for me? I apparently did so too recently.) If you're not planning on that happening (e.g. if the knights are going to spend the entire campaign fighting off various armies and clearing out caves of various mundane...

I'm running it for 4e (just started the 5th adventure, with PCs at 13th level). The "seams" from the transition get less visible as you go along in the adventure path. To keep it simple, there are really only two tweaks I would recommend. First, you should update the amount of damage that...

Back to the OP: I once had a party of three PCs and no leader. I gave one of the PCs who didn't have a lot of minor actions a free Healing Word twice per encounter, as if she were a cleric. It worked just fine. She now had something to do as a minor action, and the party had access to in-combat...

AbdulAlhazred: I think it's a good innovation that whenever a monster is listed in an adventure, the stat block is given. It's certainly still possible to just give the name of a monster in an adventure and, if you want to be extra helpful, a citation (such as "Monster Vault, page 54"). But...

Your assumption about feats is incorrect. Any character can take feats published in Heroes of the Fallen Lands and Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms. Many do, because they are awesome. The expertise feats from the Heroes of... books are much better (both mechanically and flavor-wise) than the...

Well, Heroes of the Feywild is coming. It's not DM-specific from what I understand, but I at least expect it to have some good Feywild fluff.

Fascinating sales info - yay data! And interesting point about minis. I'll just mention, however, that WotC announced that they're going to be making minis again starting next year. It won't be the same way they've done in the past - these will be non-random packs of minis, primarily for...