Puzzle Enemies

[ways and means]

How would you do a puzzle boss with this system, for example a giant opponent that can only be damaged from the inside which means getting yourself swallowed and doing a fantastic voyage to attack its heart.

Or an enemy that requires plot devices hidden around the city to destroy like the Canopic jars in the Mummy.

[Tedronai]

'Zoom out' on your action until actions and exchanges have a meaningful effect.

Use systems other than the conflict rules for most of the action.

If it doesn't have an interesting success and an interesting failure, don't bother rolling.

[ReaderAt2046]

I'd suggest that in most cases you can just give the boss Physical Immunity with a zero-point Catch representing whatever puzzle you have to solve (i.e. "Catch: Immunity can be revoked by destroying X doodad.")

[Quantus]

I'd suggest that in most cases you can just give the boss Physical Immunity with a zero-point Catch representing whatever puzzle you have to solve (i.e. "Catch: Immunity can be revoked by destroying X doodad.")

for that matter you can tie all kinds of boss abilities to various doodads, so that technically your table has the options of battling a fully powered ridiculously hard boss, or complete parts of the puzzle to weaken him in various ways.