BALANCING ACT
You reach the edge of a deep chasm. At your feet is a large button weighed down by rocks. Across the chasm another button is weighed down by a rock. A small helictite (horizontal stalagmite) is in the middle of the chasm. How will you cross the chasm?
Notes for DM:
Making the two buttons an equal weight will summon a bridge!
Players can see an equals sign engraved on the button at their feet.
With a good perception check, your players can tell:
The rocks on the near side weigh 3, 10 and 20 pounds.
The rock on the far side weighs 27 pounds.
Be sure that your chasm is too far to jump or teleport across.
Solutions:
Throw the 3 pound rock onto the far button (athletics/dex check) so both sides weigh 30 pounds.
Remove the weight from both buttons.
Send your most acrobatic character across the chasm with the helictite to adjust the weight for everyone else to cross.
Find some other solution!
