Time For Another Round Of Iron Dm!!!

[Breakstone]

I must say, Rune, I loved those names!

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Re: That Nemmerle

I like it, Wulf. One cool synergy -- apparently special doors all need riddles.

Aye! I am not surprised by that at all, we gamers share a common experience rooted in Tolkien. What's good enough for Gandalf is good enough for me!

I started with "oval door = eye" written at the top of my notes, and knew I wanted to work that in with the illusion somehow. I am pretty happy about the way that worked out, at least, though overall I wish I'd had another day to work on fitting the rest together.

I'll have more to say about all of it once we're done waiting on nemmerle.

Good luck!

 

[el-remmen]

Ok, well I have looked them over cursorily - and will be judging them sometime this weekend. Yes, nemmerle no matter how nemmerlesque does indeed have a life outside of messageboards {cue funk music} - so I am not sure that I will get a chance before Sunday.

 

[Rune]

I must say, Rune, I loved those names!

Thanks! I'm a big fan of using exotic sounding names for exotic sounding places and, to me, nothing sounds quite as exotic as using a name that actually means something within the language that provides its context.

Not to plug, but the first page of the link in my sig (my story hour) includes a naming convention that I use for that game. You may find it interesting.

 

[Rune]

I just want to say, this was bloody friggin difficult. I am going to go read RG's now, but I am not confident.

CR3 quicklings
CR7 hill giant
CR11 magic (permanent image)
CR15 treasure (staff)

Really, really hard to tie together so many disparate elements!

Tell me about it. He did the same thing with treasure to Ninjajester and I. Ya think he's trying to tell us something?

 

[Breakstone]

Just a Mid-Saturday Bump!

 

[toberane]

The riddle reads as follows:

The closed portal glimmers not, the open portal gleams
What passes through this oval portal passes into dreams.
Open every dawning, closing every dusk,
Naught that passes through here does the wise man trust.

I love this riddle, Wulf. Did you make it up, or did you get it from somewhere?

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I love this riddle, Wulf. Did you make it up, or did you get it from somewhere?

Thanks! I made it up. Would be rather a huge coincidence to just find such a riddle that fit the adventure, don't you think? As I mentioned below, my entry really started with "oval door = eye" as the foundation stone, and I like the fact that the riddle serves the second purpose of warning the players not to trust their eyes once they get inside. It's not as long or as tight as I wanted it to be but I am pretty proud of it, so again: thanks!

I love making up riddles. I love wordsmithing. I have a long commute to/from work and many's the time I have spent that hour long drive playing with double meanings and looking for rhymes.

Many's also the time I have forgotten a good riddle by the time I get where I am going...


Wulf

 

[Nail]

Bump!

"One of the Best Threads on Earth!"

...or some such dreck.

Wulf, I gotta fiver on ye! Don't let me down!

(But Rune's gotta good one there.....ya want that we should visit him wit' a some baseball bats an' some boot leather......? :^)

-Nail

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Not confident, Nail, not at all... I barely got that last entry in under the wire.