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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dirigible" data-source="post: 2693032" data-attributes="member: 12631">The <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=154548" target="_blank">puzzle thread</a> got me thinking. The difficulty I find with riddles and puzzles in game (which, the way we play, are invariably solved by the player and not the character) is that what is obvious to one person may not be so to others, because of the differences in thought-framing and experiences.Perhaps a better kind of riddle would be an open-ended one, in which you don't have to come up with the same answer the GM did when writing it, but merely something that sounds right based on the context. As long as the player doesn't know before hand that it's a 'freestyle' riddle, what's the difference?So, what's the answer? Beats me! Let your players debate and argue about it for a while, and accept whatever answer they finally come up with with a knowing smile and a slight nod.What does this even mean? Haven't the foggiest! Steer it into some kind of mild philosophical debate about the nature of happiness, without Conan and his buddies around to derail it with talk about lamentations and such. Again, if they can agree to something, anything, hey presto it was the right/best answer.It doesn't have to turn into an overly complex debate, either. Use it as an opportunity for roleplaying; make the players get inside the characters' views about happiness. Or, y'know, gloss over it and get back to killing things and taking their stuff.* The, uh, flaw in my logic here being that the good soul, because it's in the sphere, must already have been removed from paradise. Perhaps the imprisoned souls are in limbo, and so are unaware of what they have lost.This one is less of a riddle and more of a moral dilemma, actually. But it should stir the same kind of thoughts.Does this seem like a feasible idea? Anyone else have any open-ended riddles they can share?</blockquote>

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