Shadowman's Tricks & Traps [Paperback]

Matt Mayfield (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 16, 2008

Shadowman has continued his exploration of exotic, far-off locales and has managed to use his wits to "liberate" a good deal of treasure while avoiding many deadly traps along the way. He invites you to share in his adventures to see if you could have avoided the perilous traps and gotten away with the goods. All of these puzzles can be solved by an individual, or by a group. Hints are provided for each puzzle, or, if you need help in getting started on the right solution path, steps for solving each puzzle are also included. Additionally there is a section of the book to help game-masters of any role-playing system to use these puzzles in their role-playing adventures. This book provides hours of brain-teasing fun

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About the Author

Matt Mayfield is a riddle writer for Cloud Kingdom games. Cloud Kingdom Games has been publishing board games, card games, riddle books and puzzle books since 1992.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Cloud Kingdom Games (July 16, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1928807135
• ISBN-13: 978-1928807131
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,088,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Clever role-playing puzzles, December 5, 2008

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Jon Betts (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadowman's Tricks & Traps (Paperback)

I was intriqued by the "tricks and traps" aspect of the book. I've role-played for a while and a friend had the grimtooth trap books which he'd throw at us now and then. This shadowman book has more logic puzzles and extended puzzles - find key A to open door B to get key C etc. - than simple traps. I've used several of the simple puzzles in my D&D 4 campaign so far as well as one of the extended ones. My players except for the barbarian liked them even though they felt really stupid on one where they walked right by the treasure without noticing it. Anyway I had fun trying to solve the puzzles by myself and my players liked the break from the usual 50' corridors.