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D&D Puzzles #43 - Eyes of the Obelisk
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2018
- Our heroic adventurers need to access a portal concealed by an obelisk. The Obelisk is a secret passage and can only be opened by inserting the correct amount of colored eyeballs into the empty holes (sockets) on the obelisk. Within the sides of four pillars are pools of Red, Green, Brown and Blue eyeballs. Three statues are the only clues as to what color eyes the PCs will need to scoop out of the pillars and insert into the Obelisk. Can your players solve the puzzle?
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This is one of your best puzzles! I like the idea of characters eyes being added to the obelisks.
Thank you! This is definitely a fun one. I'm looking forward to running it someday myself.
if i did this, i might up the number of eye holes in the obelisk and in stead of a horse have the woman preparing a meal by cutting a potato or something. bc potatoes have eyes, too and i love that the needle eye was part of it, not just actual eyeballs. they’d have to count the number of eyes on the potato
and maybe there would be an obvious place for a missing knife that they'd have find for her. i really like them interacting with the statues
I dig your idea to expand the puzzle. Be sure to let me know how it goes! Also, I did not know that a potato has eyes. Wowzers!
This is a bloody brilliant puzzle.
Great puzzle
Thanx Rob!
I think the beholder version makes an easier tie in, but honestly either works very well. Fun puzzle!
Thank you for the great feedback Ray, I appreciate it. I think I'm with you on this... I like both, but after watching both of them again, I think the Beholder version gets the nod. :)
This is brilliant
Thank you! Glad you liked it! And, if you like "Eye" puzzles, spoiler, I will be releasing an Eye of Vecna Puzzle in a few weeks. Stay tuned. :-)
I really love your videos.
I appreciate that!
I've got an idea to really screw with your players on this puzzle. Have the room be in total darkness, and those who say they have Darkvision will totally neglect to bring torches and of course the obelisk of course emanates an antimagic field so they can't use the light cantrip. Have them try and discern the colors of the eyes and of course they can't really tell what color the eyes are with their Darkvision because with Darkvision you can only see shades of grey
This is a devious, evil scheme... and I love it! Haha! I forgot that Darkvision could only see shades of grey. Without those torches, the characters are doomed! Mwahahaha! Thank you for the fantastic comment! :)
I'd have the four pillars each have two eyes on them. The eyes would be positioned on adjacent sides. With a successful check they could realize the pillars could be rotated. Once the pillars are facing in a way which all look towards the other pillars the openings on them open.
On each pillars there are two openings containing two different color eyes for a total of eight different color eyes. They will only require four while the other for are red herrings.
There would be a large stone mural with fading paint depicting the four characters the statues were made from. The players would need a successful perception or investigation check to uncover the faded eye colors.
Once they uncover the correct color and number are uncovered and correctly placed in the obelisk a hidden door in the mural is discovered.
The door would require eight eye shape keys.
There are four chests in the room. In each chest there will be several objects and weapons. Following the mural and correctly placing the objects on the statues will cause the statues eyes to glow and dislodge. Once all eight eyes are collected the door can be unlocked.
If the wrong eyes are placed in the obelisk 3 times the statues animate as stone golems and attack. Once the golems are defeated the party can collect the eyes of the golems.
If they fail 5 times the floor gives way and they fall to a very dangerous level of the dungeon
I really like what you did here Norok. Seems like you have a fun, challenging and unique encounter to run. :-) Well done!
I ran this for a group of 13-year-olds last weekend. They loved the eyeball stuff!
Hope you kept a good "eye" on them! lol. Anyways... great story and glad it worked out!!!
I love this and put just a small twist on it. I added this on top of a ruined sunken temple. Instead of just finding the items laying around, I had the statues worn and the parrot(snake in mine since it was yuan ti themed) had broken off and fallen into the water. When they searched carfully around the statue they noticed marks like something had fallen off the statue and chipped the stone then searchimg and finding it in the water.
Also instead of finding just finding the thread, I had it completely decayed away due to the age. To compensate for this I added a 4th statue with two daggers in its eyes and red blood running down. So they had to make the connection that they had statues with 3 of the colors so the 4th with the thread must have been the 4th color.
This is what I love about this channel. You took this puzzle and completely made it your own. Well done! Also, I really dig the idea of pieces of the statues falling into the water. I may have to incorporate that into a game someday, I dig it. Thank you for sharing your story and ideas!
I had those little building blocks you use in the background when i was a child, but i think they where from a game even older then i am, with ballista's and dragons that fired small disk to knock the opponents castle over. I cant think of what its called though, great nostalgia moment
Ah, yes. They are from a game called "Crossbows and Catapults". If you really want to see them (and the crossbow) in action, be sure to check out the Behind the Wall puzzle... where I use the small disk to smash through:
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Thank you Krootmen!
I really like this one and the giant eye on top of the obelisk gives it a creepy feeling :P
I think if I use it in my campaign if my players fail this one, the giant eye becomes a beholder and they fight him.
If they win the fight, the beholder turns to stone and they will get to solve a puzzle called...Eyes of the Beholder *Plays Wally puzzle Intro music* :P
I think that would be a good idea on how to combine both puzzles =)
Awwww yeah. This is genius! The look on the players faces when they have to solve another puzzle with a handful of eyeballs... lol. And I love the "Wally Puzzle Intro Music"... it played in my head as I read it, lol.
Awesome. I'm going to use one of the versions of this puzzle in my Weal or Woe campaign probably next Sunday. It's going to be the way to get into their first Boss Fight. I'll let you know when it happens for sure and be sure to give you a shout out during the episode! As always, thanks!!!
Awww yeah! That sounds fantastic. I'll definitely tune-in and give it a listen. :)
I'll give you a head's up before that episode airs for sure!
I had the same thought before I saw your comment. This is exactly what my players are going to face this weekend
Just used this in a game. 3 players, all contributed to the solution, discussed it, and tried the solution, not sure it would work. Pretty much exactly what I wanted.
Fantastic! Super stoked that it worked out well for your game and your players worked together toward a solution! Thank you for the awesome feedback!
One simple(ish) puzzle I've used before is one you can get a group to physically solve, which I like as it gives that extra interactive dimension to it as well. In the role play I told them the enter a room with a locked door on the other side. The room is bare apart from a table in the middle which some stone tablets on of various shapes and a plaque that reads 'to achieve your goal make sense of the stones'. Then I passed them a stack of pieces of foam board. This is basically a jigsaw puzzle, they have to figure out how the pieces go together. If successful they soon see that the shapes fit together to form letters, when I said 'make sense' I meant it literally, the letters form the word SENSE.
Does that make sense to you?.... lol. It's one of those you kick yourself afterwards lol.
This sounds fun! I'm sure your players enjoyed the "a-ha" moment when they were able to make "sense" of the puzzle. Well done! I am glad to see great interaction with puzzles in your game. :)
I think it was more of a groan and kicking themselves than an a-ha moment lol
@@dmstretch6634 lol. That makes sense.
I might use a combination of statues and paintings. I don't want to make it too complicated because my group isn't the best at puzzles, but I think this one will work real nice! I'm trying to think what I might use to represent the eyeballs, or if I'll just have to PC's tell me how many eyes of which color they are using. Any suggestions?
I was thinking candy... Gumballs maybe? Jawbreakers, Skittles... or even those glass counter beads would work.
Skittles might be perfect, especially since we're in Seattle. A little tribute to Marshawn Lynch.
I thought both the puzzles were great, but i felt like this one being a more neutral tie in made it better. Or maybe, it is because it perfectly fits my immediate puzzle needs. Well done! I might use the Wild magic table, Prismatic Spray, or Or the Spectator ray table for negative consequences...
This is another potential Halloween puzzle. DMs could even make the players stick their hands into a bowl of peeled grapes every time they want to grab an eye ... mwahahaha ....
Hey Wally! Are you the original author of this puzzle? I've seen several variations of it and I'm looking for the origin of the puzzle! Thank you!
Hi Kelly! Yep, I am the original author. I created this puzzle in 2018 and published the written version in my Journal of Puzzle Encounters in 2020. Lemme know if there is anything I can answer for you, and... I'm curious as to the variations you have found, interesting. Cheers!
I just discovered your channel, and I have no idea if anybody is monitoring these comments anymore, but I'm so excited to say that I finally got one! 😆😆😆
I watched 4 of your videos so far, and kept kicking myself right after you revealed the answer.
Hey there! Yep, I still monitor all of my comments. It's cool to hear that you are binge watching some of my puzzle content and playing along at home. Awesome! Welcome to the channel, I'm glad that you found us here and hope you continue to enjoy the content. Cheers!
@@WallyDM Thanks for the personal welcome! Please, please, please don't take this as an insult, but I first clicked on the channel because they looked like "easy" puzzles. Boy was I surprised when the initial ones stumped me like crazy.
My brother and I live in different states, but we finally had some time where we could take a couple of weeks off together. We decided to introduce all the kids (my sons and his sons) to the wonderful world of table tops. We have 6 children between us ages 6 to 11. They have video games out the wazzoo, but we forced them to put down the electronics and grab pencil & paper! 😆😆
Since he and I are old school, and we wanted to keep the characters basic, we are using the original AD&D system (minus THACO, hahah). We anticipated that they would be heavy on the hack and slash dungeon crawl, but we wanted a few puzzles and traps here and there.
We had to modify two of your puzzles, but I am pleased to say we incorporated another one directly (I think you titled it Children's Time... the one where they have to feed the cat and do chores.) They caught on pretty quickly and collectively groaned when they realized we were making them do house work. LOLOL
@@rockmyworldmusic Hey there! Not an insult at all, lol. Well done on getting your family together to play D&D. I hope your kids enjoyed the game. I'm an old schooler as well, playing a lot of BECMI and 1ED back in the day... no THAC0 here either, lol. I love the story on the Children's Playtime puzzle, I ran that puzzle for adults so I was wandering how kids would respond to that one. Another easy puzzle for kids would be the original Prismatic Owl puzzle.
Anyways, thank you for the amazing feedback. Hope you stick around for some and I hope that you keep the kids involved in D&D. Next up, 5th Edition!!! Haha! Cheers. 🙂
@@WallyDM I won't keep pestering you, but I do want to give you another update. So my brother and I also tried the old school Marvel game. We used to love it, and we figured our kids would get into the Marvel characters. They did for the most part, but we ran it as a straight bash and slam. While they liked Spidy and Cap beating up Scorpion and Doc Oct, after the match was over, 2 of them said they were surprised there weren't any puzzles! You got them hooked already, hahha
@@rockmyworldmusic lol. No worries at all, you are definitely not pestering me. Please reach out at any time. I love to hear the stories. 🙂It is awesome to hear that they missed the puzzles in the game. I love it when kids embrace the three pillars of D&D... Combat, role play and exploration (puzzles). Keep up the great work, I hope you continue to have epic games. Cheers!
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Well done Joe! You have opened the portal sealed within the Obelisk. :)
My campaign is rather silly with a LOT of pop culture references. I would use a statue of a black dragon that looks like it is summoned from a card on the ground, a statue of a white dragon with 3 heads that looks like it is summoned from a card on the ground and a statue of a girl that makes a sound when you touch the statue "Shalalala lalalala la te da"
Can you solve the puzzle?
Haha, nice! I dig the brown eyed girl reference, but I can't seem to figure out the dragons?
@@WallyDM yu gi oh
I would share this as I love it but I'm thinking of using it and don't want to give the game away lmao.
Haha, yeah, definitely do NOT share my channel with your players... I have so many more twisted ideas for you to use... stay tuned! :)
Still cool, but like the first puzzle more.
I'm with you. I love the Beholder version. Thank you for the comment, my friend.
I still like the Beholder version better for the shock factor.
Beholder version is definitely my favorite too! Thank you for watching both videos!
I plan on running this puzzle, but one of the eyes comes from a statue of a butcher chopping meat. There's a part of meat called the eye, so I thought I'd take advantage of that fact.
Hey, can we send puzzle to submit for you?
Sure thing. Get a hold of me through Discord. I will take a look and see if its something i can record and put on the channel. I have a subscriber submission lined up for the next puzzle... coming soon.
I'm fcking loving u
Awww yeah! :)