Has anyone come up with an actual puzzle for the cannister that the Black Monk in Jorgenfist has? It only opens if you solve it's puzzle and I want to confront my players with an actual puzzel, not just a series of Intelligence checks, but I'm unbfortunatly not terribly adept at solving or creating such puzzles. If anyone else has come up with a puzzle for this I'd greatly appreciate it if they shared it.
You could always buy a rubik's cube or something similar from a toy store.
A Rubik's cube isn't a good option since a couple people in the group are pretty good at them. I was more thinking along the lines of a word puzzle maybe?
Wasn't there a puzzle like that in Da Vinci code? I didn't bother to read the book or see the movie, but I recall some replica in a catalog I got in the mail. It looked kind of like one of those cylinder shaped combination bike locks but with letters instead of numbers.
You could require the players to solve a riddle that they translate from Thassilonian, then enter those letters in to open it.
That probably would work, thanks! I'll have to read that part again but it just might work.
A Rubik's cube isn't a good option since a couple people in the group are pretty good at them.
What about one with just white surfaces (you can usually buy these or just take the stickers off and put blank white stickers on), then draw some kind of pattern on each side.
Have it only open if the surfaces match up perfectly, but have them pretty messed up.