Puzzles

[Goblin-King]

Something went wrong with the quest notes. "J" is empty and there is no "M" on the map.

That aside it's really coming together.
I approve of the additional spear traps.

[Sjeng]

*le sigh*

fixed. starting to hate Word with all it's quirkyness.

[sajungzak]

*Word

[drathe]

*Word

Nice!

[Daedalus]

What sort of puzzles do you put in your quests? I think I'd get some ideas from the Eye of the Beholder series. I'd have locked doors needing specific keys but that's hardly a puzzle. Maybe a pad that causes a door to open when a hero is on it removing a hero from one part of the map.

Quest 2 of RotWL features a tomb that, if opened, releases a sparkling mist into the room. The result is the destruction of Orc's Bane and Borin's Armor. Kinda harsh, so here's a puzzle-like rework from this thread:

...Another option would be to include some sort of warning of the "curse" against the retainers of borin on anyone to open the tomb, hidden somewhere in this or a prior quest.

Like. The Quest note for the artifact trap could even include this information, but then it would need to be more subtle, as it is more immediate. I'd change the original wording of "If a Hero searches for treasure in this room, ask him if he wishes to pry open the tomb of a great warrior" to "...the tomb of a cruel warrior." The change of the warrior's reputation from great to cruel (or alternatively greedy ) should be enough for Heroes to search for a trap. The twist is that they instead need to search for a secret door to discover the nature of the trap. The alter book in the adjoining secret room could then contain this cruel warrior's story, telling of his malevolence against the Dwarves and thier works.

In my opinion, if you're going to take away named artifacts, then there should at least be a story element to go with the event. The tomb-book-trap configuration also rewards smart play. You could even go as far as to describe what would have happened if the tomb had been opened, much like the Gargoyle trap did in Bastion of Chaos, Quest 11 of the Main System.

[Goblin-King]

You could always do some puzzles with door-opening flagstones. As long as you step on it the door stays open. How do you get the last hero through?
Or have the flagstones be switches and place one on the other side of the door too so it's unavoidable to step on it when you walk through.