These cipher rings were designed originally to be used as an interactive prop for a rogue in one of my D&D campaigns!

A rogue can use these (and a key) to decipher thieve's cant runes provided by the Dungeon Master. Or you can simply provide these as a general cipher for a quest or guild for the entire party to use!

How to use the cipher wheel:

An encoded message (made up of different runes from one wheel) is provided to the player. To decode the message, the player needs a key.

This key can be included in the original message, or may need to be found elsewhere - that's up to you! In either case, the key simply lines up one letter with one rune.

For example, the key may be:

R /

To use this, the player can simply line up the R and the / on each wheel. This will match up all the other letters and runes so the player can decode the rest of the message.

Other ideas:

These can be scaled down to wear as bracelets, presented as intriguing loot from a dungeon or on the body of a spy, or in any other number of ways!

Have fun and enjoy.

Cheers!