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DM help: riddles in the dark
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By "bad" riddles, do you mean riddles that are so blatantly obvious that they're basically no-brainers? Or rather something like bad puns? Does the riddle itself need to end up in praise for the sphynx, in some "who is the goodest boy in the room" sytle?
A bad riddle being something stupid or overly simplistic but with a different answer or overwrought.
The creature doesn't know it wants to be praised for the riddles it makes. It believes it is very clever and isn't. Even if they guess the right answer it would only get angry and deny they got it.
But I also don't want the players to waste too much time thinking of riddle answers that will never go anywhere. It's supposed to be funny
Gotcha ^^
"I'm light as a feather, but not even the strongest men can hold me for long"
The answer is actually "breath" but it also works with "a fart".
PS: an awkward "riddle" my granddad loved was; how many legs does a cow have?
His answer: twelve. It has two in the front, two in the back, two on the right side, two on the left side, and one in each corner.