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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9704145" data-attributes="member: 18">But that's exactly the point.They did experiment. The OP literally explained that they did. That's how they solved this.They experimented and found a valid solution (summon a big heavy thing) before getting to ill-advised and risky ones. Sounds smart to me, doesn't it to you?Experimentation shouldn't generally start with the most dangerous and risky possible option, though, unless the PCs are just "like that" or the situation is desperate and it's more likely to work*. Your dwarf nibble approach is valid if your only concern is poison and you have someone poison-resistant, but frankly poison is one of the less likely risks. Bad magical effects, curses, angry supernatural beings (or even gods), and so on are much more likely, a "little nibble" is going to trigger most of those fully.As for "they'd have solved it instantly if they'd just eaten it" - exactly, I discussed this in an earlier post - that's what makes this not even a good puzzle really - a lot of most risk-taking PCs, like your average CN Barbarian, are just going to shove the food in their face and "solve" it without even trying. That's not clever. That's not puzzle-solving. That's not "experimentation". That's not sensible. That's just Leeroy Jenkins.At the very least, if you want the PCs to eat the food rather than doing what PCs do and finding an off-the-wall solution you didn't even imagine, you should hint at it, like with scenes of people feasting and looking happy, or a statue of a big fat friendly smiling god with a drumstick in their hand presiding over the table or something. Personally I actually prefer it when PCs come up with an insane solution I didn't consider, it's much more memorable!* = We had to experiment very dangerously in a Mothership adventure recently, because the it was inevitable death if we hung around too long, so we did go with a Leeroy Jenkins-type approach. This ended up with all the PCs surviving but two of the NPCs we were helping getting vapourized (we didn't like those guys anyway!).</blockquote>

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