The sealed envelope is passed onto a audience member to verify the envelope is sealed and is asked to read the prediction out loud.
The magician pulls out a sealed envelope with a prediction written before the show. Numbers and equations are inputed into the calculator per each passing member. The Magician asks the first member with the calculator to input any four digit number that has meaning to them and then the calculator is passed on. A calculator is taken out and passed around the audience. The audience member's name is written and placed onto the stage for everyone to see. The Magician senses a strange feeling of familiarity with an audience member and asks for their name. You are fotunate today to experience one of his simplest yet most brilliant creations: CRYPTEXT." ".Haim is a great performer and thinker, with an idea being born every day. Success: The Cryptex unlocks and can be safely opened.įailure: The Cryptex does not unlock and the vial of vinegar breaks, destroying the content.Double Meaning never had a Better Meaning Each skill can only be used to accomplish 2 attempts towards the overall skill challenge. Skill checks denoted as assist do not count as a success or failure towards the overall skill challenge, they instead either grant advantage or disadvantage to a Primary Skill Check.
#Cryptext magic code
Secondary Skills DC 13 Intelligence (Arcana) check, Intelligence (History) check, Wisdom (Insight) check or Charisma (Persuasion) to assist Primary Skill checks to recall lore about symbols or history, obtain information from NPCs about the Cryptex's code and to anticipate or second-guess other character attempts. Primary Skills DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check, Wisdom (Perception) check or Dexterity (Thieve's Tools) check to deduce, inspect and carefully manipulate the Cryptex.
The party attempt to decipher the code and open the CryptexĬomplexity: Requires 6 successes before 3 failures. I've come to a first draft what do you guys/gals think? Feedbacks and suggestions welcome In which case a DC 15 Investigation check gives them an anagram of the password. You might allow them to try and look for fingerprints on the keys - don't prompt the players, they need to come up with this on their own. If they roll a 1 on the D20 the lucky trait triggers and it opens. I guess another way would be to blindfold a halfling and let them punch keys randomly. But if it's just a matter of blind guessing, then no amount of Investigation skill is going to help. it's the name of the First Emperor of Puzzleopolis, you might allow an appropriate skill check - history in this instance. If there is some reason why the character might have a better chance of guessing - e.g.
#Cryptext magic password
You might just pick a password and let the players guess. If they want to try guessing the combination, you need to decide if the character's have a better chance of guessing than the players. If they fail by 5 or more the acid breaks. If the PCs want to try the second method, I would ask for a DC 30 thieves tools check. It's quite easy to get inside without the combination - the hard bit is doing so in such a way so as not to release the acid and destroy the document inside. There are two ways to open a cryptex - the way it is meant to be opened, with the combination, or by bypassing it in some way.
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