Horizon is great but so many puzzles are just this
Hmmmm looks like the light is green, password is just for show
DnD party will still completely ignore the code
Two major kinds of DnD puzzles:
The sort of thing in the image. Dummy simple, party still somehow gets it entirely wrong because the DM offhandedly mentioned a goose 30 minutes ago which was definitely a hint.
An insanely complex puzzle that the players are realistically not going to be able to solve, so the DM is just going to let them try shit for a half hour until he finally says, “yeah that works.”
And then there’s a mythical third kind where it’s actually a good puzzle. idk I don’t think they’re real.
Fourth Type: the DM got it from the internet, doesn’t notice it has a logical or factual error, and then insists the player solutions don’t work because that’s not what the paper reads.
"One of these gate guards speaks only truths!
“The other, only lies!”
Party: “We shoot them both with crossbows”
DM: paper shuffling sounds
DM: “Magical shield!”
Party: “Magical shield?”
DM: “Magical shiiiiieeld!”
I once watched my HS chemistry teacher type in his password to enter grades and just got the jist of which keys he typed and then realized they were close to his name and birth year.
When he was out I tested my hypothesis and was right. I felt like an uber leet 15 year old hacker.
When I was in middle school, my science teacher would routinely log in to his computer while projecting it onto the white board.
So… I know his login username, and how many characters the password is.
Hrm… what could his password be?
Look at his desk.
Slogan for his alma mater.
Exact same number of characters if you remove the space.
Works the first fucking time.
The whole school has a system wide account management log in, so everyone has their own usr/pw and can log into any computer… so I didn’t even have to be on his actual computer.
Within 5 minutes I realized I had complete access to change not only every single grade for every single assignment and test for every student in all of his classes…
… but literally all grades, for everything, for everyone in the school.
Either he was set up as an admin of the grade management system, or every single teacher was just given full access and operated on the honor system.
I didn’t actually change anything though, I was too afraid I would be caught.
In retrospect, I was probably correct about that. They could look at the time the log in occurred in the computer lab and then just narrow it down to what class was using it at the time, and then question every kid individually, and I probably would have cracked lol, I was quite bashful and bad at lying.
They could look at the time the log in occurred in the computer lab
You are overestimating 90’s schools infosec.
The videogames were right. The password is always written somewhere in the room
A few weeks ago that is what an Italian kid did. He git caught - but because he also hacked servers of port and maritime control authorities
Because you were 🌟
Social engineering success!
Did you do anything nefarious?
Nice try, former high school chemistry teacher
“This is the audio log of random Doom 3 NPC…”
“you can’t have a 0 in your code so we changed it to a 3”
Still a good premise for security … just get some sand paper and wear away three random numbers, then make your password four other digits.
Then have the incorrect password trigger a lockdown.
This is very common for psyche wards. It would be on a door to get over to the staff area or leave the building. The code is the building’s address, which everyone will know on the way into work but no one ‘staying there’ will know.
Source: Asked the people caring for my favourite granddad during his brief stay.
This is very common for psyche wards.
Memory wards, not psyche wards. Important difference.
A psychiatric patient would be able to read and understand the sign, and could then easily escape. A patient with Alzheimer’s or other advanced dementia cannot.
(Source: I spent a few days in a psychiatric ward when I was younger and depressed, and have had multiple grandparents on memory floors at nursing homes.)
If we’re following video game logic: after opening the door, you bypass the pitfall trap, dodge the Grandma holding a butcher knife, and find a chest in the main bedroom.
dont forget the secret stash under a lose plank of the floor in said bedroom. where secret lore explaining the villains motive is stored
More like a captcha
this looks like an art installation
