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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4963976" data-attributes="member: 158">The Crystal Datapad started out as a replica stone tablet ( I presume he got it from a curio store or gift shop or such); one corner was broken off, and we later found the missing piece in a Jedi archive (he had the piece available when we found it), and when activated (which was via description) became a crystal datapad (glass, actually). The sith holocron was a paperweight pyramid with some funky symbols on the sides, and we did things from the Jedi trying to communicate with it (which he failed), to pressing symbols in various sequences and asking him what happened. When we figured out the correct sequence, he swapped it for one of those 3D pyramid puzzles you can get at barnes and noble, lit with a light from below to demonstrate the effect. Finally, the light saber was a replica he had purchased and re-engineered a bit to create a hollow compartment in the handle, putting in a small cylinder that he had decorated to look like a miniature code cylinder.In all cases, the objects kept the focus on the objects themselves, rather than rolling some dice for a search roll, and saying, "you succeed" or "you fail." There was no time limit or condition in game that if we failed to find the secret to such things that we failed; we just kept adventuring until we unlocked the secret to these artifacts, and that took us in a new direction. In all, everyone thought it was a great touch to the game.EDIT: In regards to the "more against minis than props" comment, I've seen minis use in general add to the story we're building, though less so than a fun prop or puzzle does. I remember fondly playing a cleric who was challenging a wanna-be godling at an Epic game, calling him out as round by round I strode through firestorms, blade barriers, and over dead minions and telling him he was going to die. Thank Tempus for Energy Immunities and Spell Resistances. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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