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<blockquote data-quote="religon" data-source="post: 6741822" data-attributes="member: 89548">This seems like a very difficult challenge. It's a non-trivial math problem nested in a riddle intertwined with metaphors.Test your riddles beforehand. They are very hard to make challenging while not impossible.I rarely require more than two puzzle clues to solve the larger puzzle. I want the PC's to find over 80% of such clues. As there are two clues, they should solve the combined puzzle about 70% of the time if that is part of the campaign arc. Players feel clever for putting the two items together... perhaps disproportionate to the difficulty of the challenge.Perhaps a wood carving of druidic activity raising hands to a smokey offering is nested in a prior adventure. The specific moon should be given to inquisitive PC's... a full moon by many druidic traditions. Clever PC's can arrive at the standing stones in time for the correct moon. The runes on the altar could poetically invite the faithful to burn mistletoe in offering.&quot;Be ye strong of heart,A flame of mistle twig you shall start.&quot;Slightly archaic, but enough to prompt most PC's.(Traipsing into the woods looking for mistletoe.) Under the correct moon, the spell's formulation appears in the smoke. Do different moons or offerings produce different spells?If you go all PBS-Nova-Astronomy on this puzzle, you will be faced with either abstracting your fantasy astronomy into a bland knowledge check or invested too much effort into building a working physical system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="religon, post: 6741822, member: 89548"] This seems like a very difficult challenge. It's a non-trivial math problem nested in a riddle intertwined with metaphors. Test your riddles beforehand. They are very hard to make challenging while not impossible. I rarely require more than two puzzle clues to solve the larger puzzle. I want the PC's to find over 80% of such clues. As there are two clues, they should solve the combined puzzle about 70% of the time if that is part of the campaign arc. Players feel clever for putting the two items together... perhaps disproportionate to the difficulty of the challenge. Perhaps a wood carving of druidic activity raising hands to a smokey offering is nested in a prior adventure. The specific moon should be given to inquisitive PC's... a full moon by many druidic traditions. Clever PC's can arrive at the standing stones in time for the correct moon. The runes on the altar could poetically invite the faithful to burn mistletoe in offering. "Be ye strong of heart, A flame of mistle twig you shall start." Slightly archaic, but enough to prompt most PC's. (Traipsing into the woods looking for mistletoe.) Under the correct moon, the spell's formulation appears in the smoke. Do different moons or offerings produce different spells? If you go all PBS-Nova-Astronomy on this puzzle, you will be faced with either abstracting your fantasy astronomy into a bland knowledge check or invested too much effort into building a working physical system. [/QUOTE]

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