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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nameless" data-source="post: 2765082" data-attributes="member: 1543">My best puzzle wasn't so much a riddle as an easy route/hard route. It came to me when I was rolling treasure for the encounter and my result was 80,000 or so copper pieces. Who stockpiles multiple tons of copper coins, anyways? This was the result.The party was in a long abandoned cave/temple complex, which seemed uninhabited. They came to a large open room with a central theater that was about 2 steps lower than the surrounding room. In the center was a golem that looked inactive, but detect magic revealed was still animated. Filling the depression in the floor were thousands of venomous snakes. The golem was immune to their bites and venom, obviously. The party would have simply avoided the entire area if not for the three very large chests among the snakes.They used a little magic and a lot of planning to move the chests away from the snakes, and were confused as to why the golem didn't attack. They excitedly opened the chests and found half a dozen tons of copper coins. They were underwhelmed. Out of spite, one player took a handful of the coins, which was worth noting.As they went through the dungeon, they kept referring back to the room full of snakes and no treasure. After a very tough fight against a mind flayer fighter, they were wounded and limping back through the cleared temple, when a very angry golem cam rampaging down the hall and mercilessly attacked the cleric to the exclusion of all else. They won, but only by a hair.Here's the setup: the theater room was where the temple had its sermons, and the parishioners were supposed to leave their donations after mass. As commoners, they left mostly copper coins. The golem was originally a guardian, but when danger passed, it was just instructed to collect copper coins lying around and put them in the chests. Naturally, it would be disruptive if the golem walked around during the service, so it was instructed to gather all the coins 10 minutes after everybody left the room. Since they took the coins from the chest, it had to go find them and put them back in the chest.The worst part was that the golem has dragged the chests back to the snake pit after the party left, so they couldn't even bring their reward back. After that, the party was a lot more careful about what they disturbed in strange places.</blockquote>

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