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Need help with riddles

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Nickeris86:
"What is in my pocket?" ;D

LizW65:
One way to go about this might be to work backwards, as it were:  what big reveals to you want to come at the end of your characters' quest?  What do you know about the endgame that they don't?  How will the experience change them?  Devise some riddles around the answers to these questions, couch them in obscure and obfuscating language, and voila!  Instant foreshadowing! ;D

SuperflyMD:

--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on February 04, 2011, 05:27:24 AM ---"What is in my pocket?" ;D

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This one never ends well for me.

raljamcar:

--- Quote from: Enjorous on February 02, 2011, 05:21:02 PM ---What kind of riddles are you looking for.

like When is a door not a door?

Or like "Something so hard that it can crush roofs yet must fear the sun"

or: I run, though I have no legs to be seen. I possess no heat, yet I do have steam. I have no voice to let words out, but from far away you can still hear me shout. What am I?

or even something like You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?

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when it is ajar
snow?
Train?
whats the last one though?

how about a good universal one like
what has mountains, that are flat, lakes that are dry, and winds that never blow

Enjorous:
It's actually a whistle and a bell, respectively.

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