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<blockquote data-quote="Finster" data-source="post: 3246553" data-attributes="member: 17572"><p>I once placed a puzzle door straight out of the FFG Traps and Treachery book outside of a treasure room. It was intended to give them something to do other than fighting. It was a simple cryptogram, and the players had solved the entire puzzle except for one word (I believe the word was "<em>egress</em>"). They spent about a half hour mulling over and over this one word, of which only the G was missing. Out of boredom, I finally demanded a decision. They decided that this word was a trick and didn't follow the rest of the cryptogram's solution, but instead contained more than one letter substitution for the character representing G. They decided the real word had to be empress. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> </p><p></p><p>Well...</p><p></p><p>The door had four symbols of death on it that would activate if the correct word (egress) was not spoken. Each party member approached the door one at a time. Four party members, four symbols of death, four failed saves.</p><p>What gets me is that they tried the same wrong solution four times. Even after they had decided that it was the wrong answer, and that the correct word indeed was egress, they still walked up to the door like lemmings, one right after the other, and uttered the wrong word!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Finster, post: 3246553, member: 17572"] I once placed a puzzle door straight out of the FFG Traps and Treachery book outside of a treasure room. It was intended to give them something to do other than fighting. It was a simple cryptogram, and the players had solved the entire puzzle except for one word (I believe the word was "[I]egress[/I]"). They spent about a half hour mulling over and over this one word, of which only the G was missing. Out of boredom, I finally demanded a decision. They decided that this word was a trick and didn't follow the rest of the cryptogram's solution, but instead contained more than one letter substitution for the character representing G. They decided the real word had to be empress. :confused: Well... The door had four symbols of death on it that would activate if the correct word (egress) was not spoken. Each party member approached the door one at a time. Four party members, four symbols of death, four failed saves. What gets me is that they tried the same wrong solution four times. Even after they had decided that it was the wrong answer, and that the correct word indeed was egress, they still walked up to the door like lemmings, one right after the other, and uttered the wrong word! [/QUOTE]
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