I must admit, until the additional clues you provided, I could've easily gone with:
or
But then, the answer becomes pretty obvious with at least the first clue. I agree with the poster who commented that riddles seem to be either easy or impossible, with no middle ground, so hence very difficult to "balance". I think the base 4-line riddle is likely to produce a wide variety of results (each of which could be conceptually correct), but with the first clue added in, I reckon most gaming groups should work it out reasonably easily.
Cheers, Al'kelhar
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But then, the answer becomes pretty obvious with at least the first clue. I agree with the poster who commented that riddles seem to be either easy or impossible, with no middle ground, so hence very difficult to "balance". I think the base 4-line riddle is likely to produce a wide variety of results (each of which could be conceptually correct), but with the first clue added in, I reckon most gaming groups should work it out reasonably easily.
Cheers, Al'kelhar