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<blockquote data-quote="taliesin15" data-source="post: 1986521" data-attributes="member: 22058">Fieari writes On riddles:Unfortunately, people these days have lost the art of riddling... A riddle is just a poemI would also say that we have lost the art of poetry, too, but I do think you're quite on the right track here...IMC, I have used some actual Old English riddles, and ones I wrote in the style of Old English riddles (usually not as difficult, certainly not as good as the original)...the really sad thing is the players generally have treated the idea of having to figure out riddles as a gimmick or with derision generally or with resentment that they can't just play the game like its a video gamebut back to riddles: Tolkien of course everyone knows, but I wonder if people know of the tradition he was working in? Here's a killer website with source material for riddles, and, one would hope, DMs running campaigns might consider using some of this as source inspirational material for fleshing out NPC Bards<a href="http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~mwh95001/riddles/riddles.html" target="_blank">http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~mwh95001/riddles/riddles.html</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="taliesin15, post: 1986521, member: 22058"] Fieari writes On riddles: Unfortunately, people these days have lost the art of riddling... A riddle is just a poem I would also say that we have lost the art of poetry, too, but I do think you're quite on the right track here...IMC, I have used some actual Old English riddles, and ones I wrote in the style of Old English riddles (usually not as difficult, certainly not as good as the original)...the really sad thing is the players generally have treated the idea of having to figure out riddles as a gimmick or with derision generally or with resentment that they can't just play the game like its a video game but back to riddles: Tolkien of course everyone knows, but I wonder if people know of the tradition he was working in? Here's a killer website with source material for riddles, and, one would hope, DMs running campaigns might consider using some of this as source inspirational material for fleshing out NPC Bards [url]http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~mwh95001/riddles/riddles.html[/url] [/QUOTE]

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