Skeleton Keys D&D Puzzle - Tasha's Cauldron of Everything - Wally DM

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Many unique spirits linger in the world because they can’t bare to leave something behind. In this puzzle, finding the solution also means helping a lost soul find peace. #dnd #pathfinder #puzzles
The Haunted Hallway puzzle was published in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything for D&D 5th Edition. This video is a review of the puzzle and a guide on how to run it in your game. Let me know in the comments which puzzle from Tasha's Cauldron you would like to see me demonstrate in the next video!
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@stm7810 3 года назад

I love that it's a pun, I solved at the sight of the teeth.

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Nice! Glad you were able to get the solution. This is probably the puzzle I would most likely use from Tasha's Cauldron. Cheers!

@TheAceman1100 3 года назад

Awesome video as always. Changing the puzzle with a riddle to figure out the animals is a really solid idea. I might use this in my in person game with that.

@WallyDM 3 года назад

If you want to increase difficulty, then, absolutely. Riddles are a great way to do that. Removing the clue/poem in the journal would be another way. Thank you for the comment. Guess you won't be seeing this puzzle in the one shot, lol.

@gstaff1234 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing an easy puzzle. Love your show and your work on DMS Guild

@WallyDM 2 года назад

Thank you Greg! I appreciate the support. I have a lot planned for 2022, stay tuned! :-)

@immortalorigins9446 3 года назад

And here I was googling facts about the Teeth of Wolfs, Spider, Bats and Snakes LOL I like the "easier" solution :) An idea that also popped in my mind was having numbered keys 1-9...and you are allowed to use the same key more then once... Bat - B=8 Wolf - W=3 Snake - S=5 same for spider... Probably a little more complex but I always enjoy making things harder LOL Nice job on presenting the puzzle! I am sure I will use it in the future! ^^

@WallyDM 3 года назад

lol... that is hilarious my friend, although, now I want to create a puzzle about teeth. lol. And... the numbered keys is a nifty idea as well. Great ideas here... and, I'm not sure why I missed your comment, but glad I found it. :)

@emmaromohr5039 3 года назад

We’re solving this exact puzzle in my current campaign but haven’t tried the lock yet. I figured this puzzle out before finishing the video

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Oh nice! This is definitely one of the better puzzles from Tasha's. I definitely dig it. Great job on finding the solution right away. Cheers!

@CrusaderEm 3 года назад

Making a guess before the end. The teeth are numbers of letters in the animal names.

@CrusaderEm 3 года назад

Finally got one lol

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Hooray! Well done. This is one of my favorite Tasha's puzzles... Stay tuned, I'll be releasing another Tasha Puzzle on Wednesday. On to the next!

@oneill214 3 года назад

I love this puzzle is awesome, you have a new subscriber. Please more Puzzle and DM Stuff. I'm going to use this concept, but instead of being a box, I will use a door.

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Nice! Welcome to the channel @Sucun. Stay tuned... more fun DM things coming soon. :)

@HowtoRPG 3 года назад

Really good explanation and demonstration.

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Thank you my friend. I am taking your advice and am going to do a video for every puzzle in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. I hope folks find them useful. :)

@greatmoustache8731 3 года назад

Well done walk through

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Thank you my friend, I truly appreciate you being a member of this channel. :-)

@TheMokaner 3 года назад

I love this puzzle, but i need to change the animals for it to work out in Norwegian

@AllisonIsLivid 3 года назад

I was JUST thinking that! This puzzle could have so many neat twists put in it if you just change the base assumption that the answer is in English/Common!

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Ah yes, that is one of the problems with Tasha's Cauldron. So many of the puzzles are English language dependent. The good thing about this one, is that you can adjust it to your native language with only a few tweaks. Glad you can use this in your game. Cheers!

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Absolutely! Definitely a good puzzle to change around a bit to fit your game. Oh, and Hi Allison... hope you have been well!

@thijsvandertang4240 3 года назад

@@AllisonIsLivid we have a home rule that common is in Dutch, but other languages are in English. I just made the puzzle elven.

@RIVERSRPGChannel 3 года назад

Nice puzzle and good video I hope I can get this book soon

@WallyDM 3 года назад

I hope so too. This book is well worth having. Cheers Rivers!

@dougpresley2220 3 года назад

Nice easy puzzle. But I'm considering beefing up the creatures should I use it....But I'm also thinking that a Mind Flayer key would be ridiculously long...LOL

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Oh my goodness, lol. A mind flayer would be amazing. Of course, for a shorter scary dude, you could go with "Lich". Mwahaha! Glad you liked the video. Thank you for being a subscriber to the channel Doug. Cheers!

@stevesmith5963 3 года назад

Well I was pretty pleased with myself for finally solving one of the puzzles, until you said it was an "easy" one...LOL Great video and keep em coming! Thanks!

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Haha, you should still be happy about solving the puzzle, Steve. Even the easiest of puzzles can prove to be difficult for some of us (especially me, lol). Cheers!

@rebeccat9389 2 года назад

Thanks for this video. I really like your mini display behind you. Where did you find it? If you have an affiliate link even better!

@WallyDM 2 года назад

Thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed the video. The mini display shelf is actually an NFL Super Bowl 50 Shot Glass Display case. I bought it at a thrift store for $8. One of my favorite finds. I talk about it a little bit more in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yNisF_JdKUE.html . Cheers!

@StupidButCunning 3 года назад

I figured this out the second it showed the keys. Obviously, as Wally mentions, specifying there's a different number of teeth on each key is handing the answer to your players, but I suppose it could be used as a clue if your PCs are just not quite getting it. Though, as a DM, if a party is unable to resolve this puzzle without that clue, I'd probably modify encounters going forward to avoid puzzles (unless the PCs enjoyed themselves, of course). I feel the poem further drills the answer home for the dense, so I might want to change that somewhat. In Tasha's defense, this puzzle is listed as Easy. I'd like to note that you can customize this in any way you see fit, as long as your PCs can conclude the answer. Anything will do if it has the same number of letters. If it doesn't have the same number of letters, that's okay, too. Just make a different handout that shows keys with teeth equal to the number of letters in the words you've chosen. One suggestion I saw for wolf was As the river travels, I go the opposite (Flow backwards = Wolf) To maintain that theme, you could use Warts - Straw, Dog - God, Devil - Lived, Drawer - Reward, Rats - Star, etc. Those are just my ideas on how I'd customize this so it'd be something my PCs had never seen the exact same puzzle before. Note: When I opened up my Tasha's to look up this puzzle, the page I opened to as an estimation was the Skeleton Keys handout ^_^ Edit: Changed "letters" to "number of letters" for clarity.

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Well done with all of these fantastic ideas! I really enjoyed reading through these and I like how you gave some pointers for adjusting difficulty. The puzzle, "as is", would be one I would recommend to beginner puzzle-solvers and new DMs... stepping up the difficulty, I would definitely take away the poem/journal. Great feedback, I think I will pin this comment for the video.

@StupidButCunning 3 года назад

@@WallyDM Glad I could contribute =) I did just edit the comment to help with clarification, changing "letters" to "number of letters"

@WallyDM 3 года назад

@@StupidButCunning Haha, all good. Cheers!

@typoko 3 года назад

Nice puzzle. I would personally spring the trap when all of they keys are put in and summon one of each monster. This way the key placement's can't be forced as easily. As is, you can just put random keys in to random holes and end up summoning so few enemies that they would only pose a danger to a extremely low level party.

@StupidButCunning 3 года назад

If you want to up the difficulty, you can always change the monsters that are summoned. Maybe instead of bats, use gargoyles or any variety of bat-like demon/devil. Instead of snakes, iron cobra or naga or Yuann-Ti or behir. Instead of spiders, choldrith or kruthik or retriever or drider. Instead of wolves, werewolves or shoosuva.

@typoko 3 года назад

@@StupidButCunning Rather than difficulty of the monsters, the puzzle itself is too easy without trying to solve it and instead just put random keys in to the holes. When two of the four keys have been put in to correct keyholes, the puzzle has basically been solved.

@WallyDM 3 года назад

This is a great point @typoko. If you are running for experienced players, this puzzle definitely needs to be toughened up a bit to use. But, "as is", this does make a nice introduction to puzzles for new players. Cheers Typoko! Thank you for the comment. :-)

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Ah yes, I like that. More monsters, Bigger monsters, Awesome idea.

@d0ctordastardly 3 года назад

Nice video and channel! I find language-specific puzzles a bit weird in D&D -- so, Common has the same words as English? Or all words in Common have the same number of letters as in English, by chance? I know that's overly literal, but it takes me out of it a bit. I think the general idea is cool though, and will use it with number of legs (or maybe eyes?) instead of number of letters.

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Those are definitely some great ideas to adjust the puzzle. In fact, I have some older puzzle videos that run along those lines. One where you count legs (with a red herring that they are zodiac symbols) and another where you count eyes. But yeah... language, Common, English, and alphabets are all weird in D&D. I always say Common and English are one-the-same, but puzzles like this do make it hard to translate into other languages. Great feedback! And, oh... welcome to the channel. Great to have ya aboard!

@d0ctordastardly 3 года назад

@@WallyDM Thanks! I'll have to check out more of your older videos.

@WallyDM 3 года назад

@@d0ctordastardly Aww yeah. Our video library is getting bigger, for sure. The videos I was referring to are the Zodiac Signs of Silent Hill and the Eyes of the Obelisk/Beholder. One thing though... those older puzzle videos from 5 years ago will really show you how far I've come as a RU-vidr, lol.

@SuperAmaton 3 года назад

Hated the Riddle, because our Gamemaster gave us the Riddle without the Verse to make it more difficult and no Skillchecks for Help. While i can appreciate the effort, there's too many other options. Which side the Icon is on, how many Legs (or none) the Animals have, the Names, the Spaces in between, Atributing the Animals to the Seasons... Give people a modified Poem, not none.

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Wowzers, I am sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with this puzzle. But, I agree 100%. You can't hold back on the clues and hints needed for the puzzles from Tasha's Cauldron. They are hard enough "as is". Without them, the puzzles are nearly unsolvable.

@SuperAmaton 3 года назад

@@WallyDM Thanks for your answer 😄

@boguerogue 3 года назад

The poem needs to be changed. It should be some sort of red herring. Too easy.

@WallyDM 3 года назад

Agreed. This is probably too easy for experienced players. But, "as is", this does make a decent encounter to introduce new players to puzzles if they have never encountered one before. Cheers Bogue!