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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 5631484" data-attributes="member: 40398">I have problems with puzzles too. Either I make the solution too obscure and the players end up giving up, or I make them laughably easy. I haven't even bothered using a puzzle in years, but I want to try one in my current campaign. I think I read it in a Paizo Dungeon mag; there were several pictures of weird creatures. (I remember a cyclops and a chimera.) The purpose of the puzzle was to give the players the combo to a lock or something; each creature had a different number of eyes, and the numbers were the combo.It helps to make resource tracking really simple. For example I'm in a Dark Sun game where the DM makes us track rations. It's simple because we use the same rations for ourselves and our mounts.I suppose it also helps that there are brutal consequences to running out of rations. <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:" /></blockquote>