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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MortonStromgal" data-source="post: 5216348" data-attributes="member: 76231">STOP!!!!! go ahead put the orcs in the room guarding a treasure. You created the situation. That is awesome! Don't solve the problem, let the PCs do that. Let them try things, throw stuff out there. Then if they reach a reasonable way to solve the problem let it work.Steve D once said something about the job of a GM over on rpg.net that hit home with me. It was something like my job is to let my players be awesome. If you solved the puzzle for them ahead of time that is not letting the players be awesome, that is forcing them to think like you. Video games typically have very few (sometimes only one) solution to any given problem. That is why table top still brings people together. Computers just can't handle everything players can come up with yet.[Edit]Let me add something like what I'm suggesting. Shadowrun is the perfect example. You design the building, the guards, rotations, what the PCs are trying to steal, etc then just let them loose. They decide how they are going to get the item. They may come up with a way you didn't count on. They may go in guns blazing and end up in a TPK. That is their choice, all you did was present the problem and the opposition, not the solution. The trick is picking "reasonable" opposition and that just takes time and practice.</blockquote>