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Hey, /tg/, can I ask a few riddles to test for my table?
>Although I rest among the palms
>and settle at my wrists,
>I've come between a million psalms
>and Kissed many a prince.
Got it? No?
Extra clue: The party sticks their hands into a pit of pins to answer the question. Answering it wrong makes the pins shock them.
My players worked on this one entirely too long before I artificially upped the pace, and when they finally gave up, one said the answer was bullshit. I'm here to make sure it and the others are actually up to muster.
>Though I am laced, I am no shoe,
>a stranger in the brew
I'll post an extra clue to this one later in the thread if someone guesses it and gets it wrong.
>At rest, I set beneath a roof,
>In my own fluids, slick, aloof.
>At play, I ere to share in tales,
>Both myth and mundane truth.
>At work, I jump my ivory fence,
>To taste my prey, to drag it in,
>And see the curtains close again,
>And set the flesh to tooth.
Extra clue later.
Also, let's please avoid the whole 'let them roll INT and move along' thing. It's a perfectly valid method for some, but if we're going that far than I'd rather say "he tells you a riddle, roll INT" than give them an actual riddle.
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>>48719760
Int rolls for hints seems fair. A smart character should be able to more easily get on the right line of thinking. You still let the players retain agency that way, of course.
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>>48719760
The last one is a tongue, I think.
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>>48719760
The middle one is poison
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>>48719944
And I think the first is a finger.
>>48719952
I was thinking that, too.
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>>48719969
I think a hand fits better, Princes don't usually kiss fingers
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>>48719760
Rosary?
Poison
Tongue
Also have you heard of metre?
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>>48720000
Coins used to have Kings princes queens and princesses on them
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>>48719760
>Although I rest among the palms
>and settle at my wrists,
>I've come between a million psalms
>and Kissed many a prince.
Sounds like a blade, but maybe that's just me thinking "settling at one's wrists" being a euphemism for suicide.
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>>48719760
You are a shitty gm. If the answer fits the question it's a good answer. Mainly because you being a shitty gm and coming up with riddles that have answers you didn't though.
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>>48720000
I think that's the answer be was going for, but I'm not seeing any sense in a hand resting among a palm. And putting a whole hand in a book is a bit off, too.
The tongue one is good, if a little easy with the ivory fence.
The poison one is good, too. I like short one best myself.
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>>48719760
Hand bone?
G-spot
Mouth
I guess.
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>>48720052
I think the Psalm thing means you clasp your hands together in prayer while reading Psalms
The first two lines I took literally, meaning the actual palm of the hand and wrist
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>>48720540
I took it as fingers between pages and lines of a holy text.
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>Post OP
>Abandon thread
Nubtown.
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