Riddle Rooms #1: Dungeon Dilemmas

As an AD&D Dungeon Master, I have already used a number of these rooms, and have found them to be quite useful. They range from the relatively simple to the devilishly hard. My one complaint is the organization of the book, which places the room information up front, and the illustrations at the end of the book with no page numbers. This means that once you decide to use a certain room, you have to thumb through the second half of the book visually scanning for any illustrations. I have no idea why the pages for each room aren't kept all together.

That said, I did find this book to be an excellent resource, one that I have drawn on repeatedly. By the way, there are two bonuses: 1) a set of riddles giving the ingredients for making a set of potions (a good hook for later adventures), and 2) six bonus riddle that you can use anywhere you want. This is a great book, one that I highly recommend to anyone who plays fantasy role-playing games.


good ilustrustrations, semi-good logic   December 20, 2001
duke13630 (houston, tx United States)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful

The puzzles are nothing but riddles. Every single puzzles includes a riddle to solve in some way which makes it tiring after the first room. the logical Puzzles that players need to make are somewhat common sense that requires looking for an a specific object. ie, to cut the chain then you need to find the special axe. To get the axe then you got to first find the special key. the get that special key then you first have to break the Key casing around it with another particular item. It is full of puzzles like this and sometimes, pages seems to be wasted just to type out one large 4 line riddle to show to players when you can just say it.


Plausible Mechanics - literally   January 8, 2000
Shadowfire (College Park, MD)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful

Riddle Rooms #1 accomplished something not often done - it provides traps that function by the laws of physics rather than those of magic. Finally your PCs have the option of tinkering with alien mechanisms instead of casting a read magic spell. The situations provided are very much plausible and I found myself using the presented materials more than once on numerous occasions.