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<blockquote data-quote="Agent Oracle" data-source="post: 2819333" data-attributes="member: 40076">I'm reminded of a riddle our DM once posted us that four players two hours to finish.The NPC (a very obvious Eliminster) gave us this riddle to tell us how many fish he wanted for us to continue onward in the quest.&quot;In letters only three / add two more / and fewer i will be.&quot;...Four people who were near graduation in college sat down and puzzled that out for two hours.&nbsp; All of us wracked our brains trying to figure out what the hell it meant...&nbsp; Bear in mind we are not stupid people,&nbsp; One of the party was three credits away from being a physicist, we also had an english major and a biologist.The GM ruled that no knowledge checks should apply since it was, and i'm paraphrasing &quot;Insanely obvious to any child what the answer was.&quot;&nbsp; He then laughed at us.&nbsp; He was evil like that.&nbsp; Finally, he told one of the players what the riddle's answer was, just so we could move on.Incedentally, I'm the kind of player who puts 5 points into wealth, then spends it all in explosives.&nbsp; So, generally &quot;You're trapped&quot; puzzles have relatively little impact on me. I would have put a wad of C4 in the keyslot, probably on the &quot;patience&quot; door, then uttered the zen-like phrase &quot;Time may turn the mountain to sand, but my C4 will reduce this door to splinters much more efficiently.&quot; and gotten as far away as possible (probably beneath some of the sand, or made a dune I could hide behind) before setting it off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Agent Oracle, post: 2819333, member: 40076"] I'm reminded of a riddle our DM once posted us that four players two hours to finish. The NPC (a very obvious Eliminster) gave us this riddle to tell us how many fish he wanted for us to continue onward in the quest. "In letters only three / add two more / and fewer i will be." ... Four people who were near graduation in college sat down and puzzled that out for two hours. All of us wracked our brains trying to figure out what the hell it meant... Bear in mind we are not stupid people, One of the party was three credits away from being a physicist, we also had an english major and a biologist. The GM ruled that no knowledge checks should apply since it was, and i'm paraphrasing "Insanely obvious to any child what the answer was." He then laughed at us. He was evil like that. Finally, he told one of the players what the riddle's answer was, just so we could move on. Incedentally, I'm the kind of player who puts 5 points into wealth, then spends it all in explosives. So, generally "You're trapped" puzzles have relatively little impact on me. I would have put a wad of C4 in the keyslot, probably on the "patience" door, then uttered the zen-like phrase "Time may turn the mountain to sand, but my C4 will reduce this door to splinters much more efficiently." and gotten as far away as possible (probably beneath some of the sand, or made a dune I could hide behind) before setting it off. [/QUOTE]

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