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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 1216517" data-attributes="member: 5890">I was in a game where the DM used a meta-riddle. It was a riddle whose answer was in the real world, but not in the game-world. Of course all the players were roleplaying, and sticking to things their characters knew about, so the DM eventually had to tell us the answer just so we could get on with it.My pet peeve with riddles is that too often there are multiple possible solutions to a problem, or the poser of the riddle really hasn't thought it through. The worst aspect of this is that the DM can't tell you the answer unless you got it right - if he's misformulated the riddle such that there is not a correct answer, then you're in trouble. As an example, in your riddle, [spoiler]there's not really a lot to stop the dragon from drinking from well 4 twice or more, then drinking from well 5 - it guarantees that he's no going to be poisoned (well 4 counters previous poison/poisons dragon, then well 4 poisons dragon/poisons him again, then well 5 cures him). And there's not really a lot that stops the dragon from feeding the knight poisoned water from well 1, meaning that he doesn't get the needed antidote of well 5...[/spoiler]</blockquote>