waste hours to climb an infinite stairs ? no need for that… last session my players took 3 hours, IRL, to climb a wall… a common totally normal DC15 athletics brick wall… If I'd ever pulled them an infinite staircase I wouldn't survive the session ^^
Has a de-escalator in a dungeon Has an illusion of regular stairs put over it Watches as the party barbarian makes it up three steps before face planting and is slowly brought back towards the party
Any time a skill check is preformed on the door it seems locked and trapped, even after successful attempting. A nat 20 reveals the door is planting thoughts in the players mind and simply opening the door solves the puzzle.
One of my DMs did this with a tunnel once. Party had no idea what to do and I was like "Screw it! I try walking backwards!" having no idea it WAS this kind of puzzle beforehand.
10/10 would describe the party as walking up the staircase for literal thousands of years and still only about 1 step away from the bottom of the stair case. but their would be a staircase that looks to be going down but would actually take you up like normal stairs.
My favorite puzzle to stall a party is a big ominous room with something reall6 scary chained to the middle and no release switchs or traps. I had a psrty spend an ingame hour searching for traps before slowly working through the room, all the while the zombie goliath just watched them blankly.
I was in a party that met a very similar set of stairs that wanted to go down forever. My chaotic little kobold though decided this was the perfect opportunity to go sledding down the stairs because if it goes on forever, then the ride never ends. Ended up tricking the magic of the staircase because we weren’t actually walking.
The puzzle from Jujitsu Kaizen is good too. Basically an area that warps them in an infinite hallway loop. The solution is to run in opposite directions as fast as you can go
me: "oh, an infinite staircase, I know what to do here." Me (in Character): I turn around, so my back is facing the staircase, I walk backwards 10 feet, and I do a long jump. DM: visibly sweating "O-kay, you jump forwards a distance equal to your strength modifier" Me: "No, I jump backwards, and the long jump mechanic says up to my strength modifier, so instead I do a long jump of 1 foot, then the moment I land, I immediately do another one."
Puzzle I had to solve in my party goes like this: we had to swap 3 things around in the right order… which order? Well as the only person who actually did religion research for my paladin… the cleric didn't… and only one person was allowed entry at a time (private session in another chat) to complete it.
when i still played dnd a long time ago the dm did this in order to stall for time while he came up with the next scenario since we blasted through everything he came up with at that point. Problem is no matter what we did or how we rolled, we could not get off the spiral staircase so we spent 20 real time minutes stumbling around until the DM got everything in order and the NPC that was with us at the time "found" a hidden door on the wall which leads to a portal up to the surface. so yeah, kinda bullshit since we could have taken a break instead.
Literally this is the end of the escalator one. You reach the top of the descending staircase at the top you see on the other side of the lounge another staircase where to your surprise a Minotaur is being easily carried up these stairs.
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Is this a JoJo reference?
I cast detect magic on the stairs
waste hours to climb an infinite stairs ? no need for that… last session my players took 3 hours, IRL, to climb a wall… a common totally normal DC15 athletics brick wall…
If I'd ever pulled them an infinite staircase I wouldn't survive the session ^^
You could Also make this a hallway or a bridge or basically anything
This trap is mandatory for Curse of Strahd campaigns
So backwards long jump glitch? Just like the staircase in mario…
Has a de-escalator in a dungeon
Has an illusion of regular stairs put over it
Watches as the party barbarian makes it up three steps before face planting and is slowly brought back towards the party
My favorite is the door of seeming.
Any time a skill check is preformed on the door it seems locked and trapped, even after successful attempting.
A nat 20 reveals the door is planting thoughts in the players mind and simply opening the door solves the puzzle.
One of my DMs did this with a tunnel once. Party had no idea what to do and I was like "Screw it! I try walking backwards!" having no idea it WAS this kind of puzzle beforehand.
It worked.
Dispel magic
10/10 would describe the party as walking up the staircase for literal thousands of years and still only about 1 step away from the bottom of the stair case. but their would be a staircase that looks to be going down but would actually take you up like normal stairs.
3 words: backwards long jump
My favorite puzzle to stall a party is a big ominous room with something reall6 scary chained to the middle and no release switchs or traps. I had a psrty spend an ingame hour searching for traps before slowly working through the room, all the while the zombie goliath just watched them blankly.
I had an infinite spiral staircase where they had to jump down the middle into a seemingly infinite hole
I was in a party that met a very similar set of stairs that wanted to go down forever. My chaotic little kobold though decided this was the perfect opportunity to go sledding down the stairs because if it goes on forever, then the ride never ends. Ended up tricking the magic of the staircase because we weren’t actually walking.
That’s not a puzzle that’s jus being a dick.
gonna put a smug british vampire who stole another dudes body at the top of them
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The puzzle from Jujitsu Kaizen is good too. Basically an area that warps them in an infinite hallway loop. The solution is to run in opposite directions as fast as you can go
5 sessions in, they still are trying to go up the stairs.
me: "oh, an infinite staircase, I know what to do here."
Me (in Character): I turn around, so my back is facing the staircase, I walk backwards 10 feet, and I do a long jump.
DM: visibly sweating "O-kay, you jump forwards a distance equal to your strength modifier"
Me: "No, I jump backwards, and the long jump mechanic says up to my strength modifier, so instead I do a long jump of 1 foot, then the moment I land, I immediately do another one."
Puzzle I had to solve in my party goes like this: we had to swap 3 things around in the right order… which order? Well as the only person who actually did religion research for my paladin… the cleric didn't… and only one person was allowed entry at a time (private session in another chat) to complete it.
2 seconds in i would try going up backwards
when i still played dnd a long time ago the dm did this in order to stall for time while he came up with the next scenario since we blasted through everything he came up with at that point. Problem is no matter what we did or how we rolled, we could not get off the spiral staircase so we spent 20 real time minutes stumbling around until the DM got everything in order and the NPC that was with us at the time "found" a hidden door on the wall which leads to a portal up to the surface. so yeah, kinda bullshit since we could have taken a break instead.
Literally this is the end of the escalator one. You reach the top of the descending staircase at the top you see on the other side of the lounge another staircase where to your surprise a Minotaur is being easily carried up these stairs.
secure contain protect campaign?
I can't wait for flight on the escalators
My party spends hours sitting in a tavern, i don't think i need a puzzle for that