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Message: <blockquote data-quote="justanobody" data-source="post: 4553494" data-attributes="member: 70778">Of course, because you couldn't just have a round room where the characters need but walk form the edge of the circle to the center of the room in a straight line to illustrate an understanding of Pi.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Pi(r^2)Or walk to the center of the room and take a 90 degre angle to either side to find an exit.Wow a puzzle involving metagaming that even Euclid from 300 BC can solve, but a D&D PC who can summon the power of the gods with an INT rated higher than Euclid would have been cannot figure it out. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />You challenged the players with something that was metagame as in not in the rules, but real world knowledge, but they can solve it with the characters by just understanding it.Say the room had been given a passcode to tell you Pi was involved in a series of riddles where you ended up with 3.14 before entering the room.There is so little metagame in there that it shouldn't be able to get int he way, unless you play in a world so devoid of science and simple math to not even have buildings founded on Euclidean principles where nobody would have any understanding of Pi.HELL! Make the riddle even easier, by having the PCs find a square pie before finding the round room!</blockquote>

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