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<blockquote data-quote="Hammerhead" data-source="post: 2193981" data-attributes="member: 73">I recall a similar situation where this crazy dude was asking us riddles, and the last one was something like &quot;If you speak truth, I will kill you with a spell; if you speak false, I will kill you with a spell.&quot;Our group actually came up with three &quot;correct&quot; answers to this riddle, but the DM wanted us to use &quot;his&quot; solution to the damn riddle instead of coming up with clever out of the box answers. I think we came up with three answers that allowed one to get through. Saying nothing (neither truth nor falsehood), saying &quot;This statement is a lie&quot; (a paradox), asking a question (not really either). I think another paradox we came up with &quot;You are lying.&quot; And there one player who just pushed for killing the bastard and taking the treasure he was guarding...he probably could have wiped the floor with the dude.It turns out the answer was &quot;You will kill me with a sword,&quot; which seemed like a pretty poor answer since the guy could use Mordekainen's Sword or whatever to fulfill the conditions of his statement either way. I eventually appealed to the DM that my psion with a 26 Intelligence was slightly smarter than I was, and got to make an INT check, where I rolled a natural 20. Ugh. I hate those puzzles with only one solution.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hammerhead, post: 2193981, member: 73"] I recall a similar situation where this crazy dude was asking us riddles, and the last one was something like "If you speak truth, I will kill you with a spell; if you speak false, I will kill you with a spell." Our group actually came up with three "correct" answers to this riddle, but the DM wanted us to use "his" solution to the damn riddle instead of coming up with clever out of the box answers. I think we came up with three answers that allowed one to get through. Saying nothing (neither truth nor falsehood), saying "This statement is a lie" (a paradox), asking a question (not really either). I think another paradox we came up with "You are lying." And there one player who just pushed for killing the bastard and taking the treasure he was guarding...he probably could have wiped the floor with the dude. It turns out the answer was "You will kill me with a sword," which seemed like a pretty poor answer since the guy could use Mordekainen's Sword or whatever to fulfill the conditions of his statement either way. I eventually appealed to the DM that my psion with a 26 Intelligence was slightly smarter than I was, and got to make an INT check, where I rolled a natural 20. Ugh. I hate those puzzles with only one solution. [/QUOTE]

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