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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 8572851" data-attributes="member: 97077">I don't like puzzles or riddles either. They tend to really slow down the pace of play in my experience and I don't care for that.As for players solving puzzles or riddles while playing characters that don't seem well-suited for the task, my advice is to mind one's own business. As long as the players are interacting fine socially, let people play their characters how they want to play them. As a player, set a good example with your own portrayal as to how you'd do it, but leave others to figure it out for themselves. As a DM, incentivize good portrayals with Inspiration or the like. Otherwise, don't worry about it. Just about anything can be explained away in a fictional world anyway, even the barbarian figuring out a riddle. To suggest otherwise is to admit to a failure of imagination in a game based on make-believe.Few things are worse in the context of the game in my view than some busy-body who wants to question or tell other people how to play their own character, whether that's the DM or other players.</blockquote>