DM help: riddles in the dark (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by DoctorTYVM@lemmy.world to c/dnd@lemmy.world

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I'm working on a campaign that has the player meet a creature pretending to be a sphynx and ask riddles of the players.

The trick is that that creature is both not that smart and thinks he's very clever. They way past him is to praise him for being so smart that he agrees to let the adventurers go

What are some good 'bad' riddles to ask ?

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

"Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk?" "Because they both start with 'R'."

This is Lewis Carroll's classic riddle the Mad Hatter asks to Alice in her titular Adventures in Wonderland. Interestingly, it is never answered in the story and was intended to be a nonsensical riddle that would have no answer. But Carroll did give a fun and clever answer later after years of people asking him. His answer was "Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!" Other writers have suggested clever meta answers as well, such as "Poe wrote on both," and "Because there is a 'b' in both and an 'n' in neither." I like to think that your fake sphinx would both be not very imaginative in his answer, and also clearly a poor speller.

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