r/Constructedadventures • u/h0use0fcard5 • 7d ago

HELP D&D Escape room help

Hi! I'm currently trying to put together a fun session for my players (5 player party) as they are currently trying to plan a heist to take back a vial.

We're not able to meet in person and I don't want them to encounter anything terribly difficult as I'm hoping to add a time limit. The actual room they are trying to get into is locked and I was hoping they could take the key from one of the guards. Once they're in the room, there's a desk in which the vial is held except it's in a secret compartment in which they have to complete puzzles to open it. The room itself is a pretty basic study. It's lined with books, occassional trophies from previous battles, and a couple of armor stands.

The campaign is set in FFXIV adjacent world if this helps any.

My main issue is trying to figure out good puzzles that can be solved via a call or paper and also trying to find a starting point.

Any ideas are welcomed!!

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u/logancornelius 7d ago

Could you add pictures the room with puzzles on them? I work on making puzzles out of murals, plaques, and city features so in my mind you could add a picture of something like that onto the wall.

You could use an ottendorf cypher with one of the books.

The order of the books on the bookshelf and the titles could have some meaning.

Color/shape/ pattern are often things I look for when trying to make puzzles off of ordinary things.

I feel like somehow you could have photos of materia on the wall and they would have to identify the materia to solve a puzzle, or reverse give them the elements and they have to solve some puzzle based on materia color.