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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1555243" data-attributes="member: 5171">I can tell you the reason my wife won't be in one of my games (aside from her not really being interested, although she supports me doing it -- and made me <a href="http://wuut.net/gallery/patrick_cake" target="_blank">this cake</a> for my birthday):So I made some riddles for a nasty dungeon hack.  The first one involved a poem that listed a bunch of colors, told the reader to the colors together in his mind and touch the appropriate color -- this was in front of a rusty iron statue covered with gemstones of all different colors.  The party got blasted with more lightning bolts (wrong answers) than had ever been thrown in the history of the party.I tell this to my wife at home later that night.  She says, "Wait?  They did what?  You don't get WHITE from putting red and blue and green together.  At least, not if it's paint instead of light.  You'd get like a brownish-gray color... hey, did you say it was a rusty iron statue?  Like, a brownish-gray rusty iron statue?  Is that what you're supposed to touch?"  Er, yes, it was.A later riddle involved a big nasty rhyme telling the reader to beware of saying a specific name, a name popular in their campaign, and going to lengths to describe this name, and then having a blank at the end of the poem for which the name was a perfect fit.  The party triumphantly called out the name, and then looked hurt like little puppy dogs when they got zotted.When I told my wife this, she said, "Wait, didn't you just spend the whole poem telling them not to say his name?"  Er, yes.  "So basically, you were just ****ing with them?"  Er, yes.  "Let me see it written out.  I bet there's a word hint.  Hah.  First letters of each line spell out 'Say Not'.  Is that the answer?"  Er, yes.My wife has also correctly guessed every major plot element before I've finished explaining it to her, often with additional improvements I haven't thought of.  She will never be in my campaign -- she's the one person I can't bluff.</blockquote>

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