Puzzles involving a cipher or code offer many benefits for use in your Dungeons & Dragons game. They are very quick to create for one thing. And with the method I’ll show you in this article, you can create a cipher puzzle in under five minutes. Cipher and code puzzles also tie into the story … Read more
Urban settings offer discovery and excitement for players. Everything in a city is condensed into a great cacophony of sound, sight, and smells. With adventure around every corner, you would expect cities to be bustling with puzzles as well. But oddly, you find most puzzles tucked away in dungeons. And that is a missed opportunity … Read more
Chest puzzles are some of the easiest and fun puzzles to put into a Dungeons & Dragons game. I mean, a big part of the reason players enter the dungeons and face the dragons is because of the treasure chests hold at the end of it. And what better way to secure that treasure than … Read more
How do you create a logic puzzle for D&D? Find out how to do logic puzzles on the fly or craft elaborate logic puzzles that span an entire campaign.
Dungeons & Dragons is a cooperative game. Without teamwork players will fail at most tasks and D&D puzzles. Learn how to create D&D puzzles that require teamwork.
A puzzle room in D&D is a singular room that holds multiple puzzles which are all somehow interconnected. Solving one puzzle will lead to the clues needed to solve the next, until the last puzzle yields the big outcome players were searching for. Here’s how to create them
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just push a button to generate a D&D puzzle that is fully illustrated and ready to use? Well, unfortunately, I don’t have such a generator. But I do have an alternative handcrafted D&D puzzle generator that works just as well, but better. Intrigued? Okay, I’ll spill the magic … Read more
What do running large groups and running D&D puzzles have in common? Both can be very challenging. To do both well simultaneously is no small feat. But these tips will make it a LOT easier. Here are my top tips for running puzzles for large groups in a fun and easy way: 1. Waiting your … Read more
Are you looking for ways to include puzzles in your library or on books? Then I have just the thing! Here are six puzzle setups for bookwurms. And I start of with a free puzzle for your personal use. 1. The Library Puzzle Entrance The first puzzle in this list is a free puzzle I … Read more
There are three types of tile and terrain puzzles for Dungeons & dragons: In this article we’ll explore all sorts of tile and terrain puzzles. I’ll be using my illustrated tile puzzles to demonstrate the concepts, but you can easily apply the concepts to your homebrew puzzles as well. What makes D&D terrain tile puzzles … Read more