Role: Riddles
Anthony Pitman
campaign, some real riddles and some that are prophecies in disguise, I
would appreciate any help that can be given to me.
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"This is going to hurt." - The Elven Dragon Slayer before every battle.
Bokman7757
A few I picked off from the novel DREAM PARK-
"Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it
can neither see nor feel it."
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A Coffin.
Also:
Say boots without shoes. (Answer: Boots)
Whilst I was engaged in sitting
I spied the dead carrying the living
What did I see?
(Answer: A ship. Dead wood, living men.)
I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there be. (Answer: few)
Tell me what a dozen rubber trees with thirty boughs on each might be. (Answer:
Months of the year.)
As I went over London Bridge
I met my sister Jenny
I broke her neck and drank her blood
And left her standing empty.
Who was my sister? (Answer: a bottle of gin.)
What work is it that, the faster you work, the longer it is before you're done,
and the slower you work, the sooner you're finished? (Answer: Roasting meat on
a spit.)
Shadow The Rat
My tines be short
My tines end ere this first report.
answer: Lightning
tines are a branch of something else, like the prongs on a fork.
I am essential to life.
I will always be around.
Yet I fade away in the burning heat.
answer: water.
A drop of me will last forever
Any who belive know this is true.
In the deepest, darkest worlds,
I cannot be given up to you.
answer: hope. a ray of hope lasts forever, and it shouldn't be given up.
I am more powerful than magic.
I can be etched in stone, or shouted to the populace.
I give voice to those who can and cannot speak.
answer: words.
All riddle made up by me... except for the top one, that's an old favorite
from Zork Zero.
Deykin ap Gwion
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> I am looking for help deleveloping some riddles to use in my current
> campaign, some real riddles and some that are prophecies in disguise, I
> would appreciate any help that can be given to me.
I think Blue Troll's site has a copy of the Net Book of
Riddles. If you can't find something in that collection, I
don't know what to tell ya =)
I'm pretty sure you'll find it on
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/byzantium/55/dmx.htm
Deykin
Arivne
Anthony Pitman wrote:
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> I am looking for help deleveloping some riddles to use in my current
> campaign, some real riddles and some that are prophecies in disguise, I
> would appreciate any help that can be given to me.
5 sites with collections of riddles:
http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/~wade/HyperDnd/Riddles/
http://www.djgallagher.com/Thiefguild/riddles/index.shtml
http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/aali/riddles_galore.html
http://members.tripod.com/~elmair/Riddling.html
Includes advice on using riddles
http://www.justriddlesandmore.com/riddles.html
And a page with links to riddle sites:
http://dmoz.org/Games/Puzzles/Riddles
Arivne
jester47
people visit, but I take no space
still I can appear in any place
I am read like books upon your case
but I travel at a rapid pace.
Answer:
A web page.
"Anthony Pitman" <skyt...@ProUSA.Net> wrote in message
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> I am looking for help deleveloping some riddles to use in my current
> campaign, some real riddles and some that are prophecies in disguise, I
> would appreciate any help that can be given to me.
>
David G Misner
"Anthony Pitman" <skyt...@ProUSA.Net> wrote in message
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> I am looking for help deleveloping some riddles to use in my current
> campaign, some real riddles and some that are prophecies in disguise, I
> would appreciate any help that can be given to me.
Have you tried Heroes of Might and Magic??
Varsil Savai
>There's always "What have I got in my pocket?"
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>A few I picked off from the novel DREAM PARK-
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<snip>
>Say boots without shoes. (Answer: Boots)
<snip>
Hmm... I never fully understood the reasoning behind this one :).
Someone run through it? :)
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and glass... those riddles are damn good, stumped all my players
Anthony Pitman
>> Have you tried Heroes of Might and Magic??<<
No I haven't, it has many riddles?
David G Misner
"Anthony Pitman" <skyt...@ProUSA.Net> wrote in message
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> >> Have you tried Heroes of Might and Magic??<<
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> No I haven't, it has many riddles?
It has a few. You have to go to the Sphinx
Bokman7757
>Say boots without shoes. (Answer: Boots)
<snip>
Hmm... I never fully understood the reasoning behind this one :).
Someone run through it? :) >>
Simple. You don't have to say "shoes" in order to say "boots."
Flint
helps some men see and others to be blind?
Anthony Pitman wrote:
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> I am looking for help deleveloping some riddles to use in my current
> campaign, some real riddles and some that are prophecies in disguise, I
> would appreciate any help that can be given to me.
>
Chad Lubrecht
I think my preferred answer would be "boots without shoes".
really a non-sensical question to begin with.
Strowbridge
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> << <snip>
> >Say boots without shoes. (Answer: Boots)
> <snip>
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> Hmm... I never fully understood the reasoning behind this one :).
> Someone run through it? :) >>
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> Simple. You don't have to say "shoes" in order to say "boots."
But why would you have to? What wrong answer is this riddle suppose to
trick you into?
C.S.Strowbridge
Bokman7757
trick you into? >>
Not a specific wrong answer, just concentrating on the objects- "there aren't
any boots that aren't also shoes!"
Arivne
Strowbridge wrote:
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> Bokman7757 wrote:
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> > << <snip>
> > >Say boots without shoes. (Answer: Boots)
> > <snip>
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> > Hmm... I never fully understood the reasoning behind this one :).
> > Someone run through it? :) >>
> >
> > Simple. You don't have to say "shoes" in order to say "boots."
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> But why would you have to? What wrong answer is this riddle suppose to
> trick you into?
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> C.S.Strowbridge
There are two ways to interpret the phrase "Say boots without shoes."
1. Say "Boots" without (saying) "shoes".
Answer: "Boots".
2. Say "Boots without shoes".
Answer: "Boots without shoes".
When the phrase is written as it was in the original post (Say boots
without shoes) or spoken, it's ambiguous: there's no way to know which
interpretation is meant.
Only if it's written with the quote marks (as in 1. and 2. above) can
you know what the question is asking for.
Arivne
Varsil Savai
This is how I've always thought of it. IE, it's a riddle for when you
need to jerk around the riddle answerer. Which, in the Dream Park
bit, was exactly the right move.
Ask an ambiguous question, and you can reject _any_ answer.
Brian
"In my mind's eye I see
"Three circles joined in perfect, graceful harmony;
"Two full as the moon, one hollow as a crown:
"Two from the sea, five fathoms down,
"One from the earth, deep under the ground;
"The whole a mark of high reknown.
"Tell me, what is it I see?"
The answer is: a gold ring set with two pearls. The riddle is from the movie
"Clash of the Titans," and really works well if you can arrange for the ring
to belong to a famous NPC.
The other was most recently reprinted in a Dragon Magazine article, but I
don't know where it originated.
"You'll find me in darkness, but not in the light;
"You can see me in daytime, but never at night;
"In the deepest of shadows I hide in plain sight:
"Tell me then, what am I?"
The riddle has two possible answers: the letter D, and the letter A. This
one is great when you absolutely want the PCs to lose the riddle game -- two
possible answers, but they only get one guess. You can even warm them up by
using the old
"The beginning of eternity,
"The end of time and space;
"The start of every ending,
"And the end of every place"
That answer, is, of course, the letter E.
Brian
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Flint <Flint...@home.com> wrote:
> what is it that builds castles, yet tears down mountains
> helps some men see and others to be blind?
Sand.
--
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Alex Case
riddle.
USCM_Sulaco
"Alex Case" <ace...@teleport.com> wrote:
> Do some jepordy style. Give them the answer and make the party guess
the
> riddle.
The problem with that is that same problem that you get with those
silly "lateral thinking" puzzle books. There can be an almost endless
number of possible questions to come up with a specific answer.
Chad Lubrecht
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> In article <sdn85.3921$Hk1.6...@nntp3.onemain.com>,
> "Alex Case" <ace...@teleport.com> wrote:
> > Do some jepordy style. Give them the answer and make the party guess
> the
> > riddle.
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> The problem with that is that same problem that you get with those
> silly "lateral thinking" puzzle books. There can be an almost endless
> number of possible questions to come up with a specific answer.
And what's necessarily wrong with that? As long as they don't try
to come back with, "What's the answer to this question?" or something
like that, I don't see any problem with giving the players credit for
coming back with a solution you hadn't considered. (The players don't
know which one you wrote down in your notes, so they'll never know.)