>>18648326
>A precious gift, this
>yet it has no end or beginning
>and in the middle, nothing.

[nospoilersontg]A ring.[/nospoilersontg]

>What smells bad and comes out of your butt?
Spiders.

>>18648367
Oh god

The weakest child may carry it, but the strongest man may not.
The poorest drunkard may own his own, while the richest king only needs others to make it.

What is it? A tune.

>It runs, but never walks
>It has a bed, but never sleep

a river

>>18648399
Oh, I was gonna say boobs.

What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs at afternoon and 3 legs at night?

Man


>Crawling
>Walking
>Using a cain

What becomes wetter the more it dries?

What live even in death?
Kane.

>>18648422
A towel!

Or spiders.

What is it that no man wants to have, but no man wants to lose?

>>18648422
Spiders.

>>18648433

A job.

>>18648433
A wife.

What, does my cock taste like?

>>18648422
A dishcloth

>I am black as pitch in brightest light, but disappear when night comes. What am I?

A shadow. (your players may bitch about this one, but I like it.)

What must you keep after giving?

Your word.

>>18648455
Spiders.

>>18648460
timetostopposting.jpg

>>18648473
But it's all I can think about. :(

>>18648460
>>18648438
>>18648367
Villian, asks riddles. The answer is always spiders. Then he magics it so spiders is the answer in a creapy sort of way. Start with really odd ones that seem clever, then get very straightforward once they catch on. Then just have him ask random riddles and MAKE the answer spiders in some wierd way. . . "

For example:
"What's inside all of you and the walls?
what slowly, surely, creaps and crawls?
what is going to feast on flesh tonight?
To your horror and my delight?"

>>18648547
>What's inside all of you
God Emperor how horrifying. At which point spiders burst out of their body like chestburster.

>>18648573
Bingo. To make it better, have him perplexed how the heroes figure it out before he's done.

>>18648547

Arachnophobia
>Evocation
>Sor/Wiz 1
>Components: Verbal, Somatic
>Casting Time: 1 standard action
>Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level
>Targets: Up to five creatures, no two of which may be more than fifteen feet apart
>Duration: Instantaneous
>Saving Throw: None
>Spell Resistance: Yes

You point your fingers at your desired target, and 1d4+1 spiders crawl out from under his or her flesh, biting their way to freedom before vanishing in a puff of smoke.

For every two levels beyond the first, another 1d4+1 batch of spiders is created by this spell - two batches at level three, three batches at five, four at seven and so on. If you have multiple sets of spiders, you can have them erupt from a single target or you may select multiple targets for this spell. A single batch of spiders may only afflict one creature. Each spider does one point of damage to the target.

>>18648690
Now, how do I build a villian around one spell?

Needs more metamagic. . .

TWINCAST MAXIMISED EMPOWERED ARACHANOPHOBIA! For all your "Oh god the spiders!" needs.

What ends its cycle when it rings true?

Answer a bell. Bells have a high failure rate leading the metal being recast again and again until you get a proper bell that rings the right tone.

>>18648455
Sweet and sour sauce, mixed into a salt encrusted bow with blue cheese, soy sauce, a bit of wasabi sauce, and a tea spoon of vodka?

I've been too long on /d/...

>>18648624
>mfw in my game!

They don't, they die. The rest of the campaign consists of their three month old back ups searching through the solar system to both retrace their now dead other selves tracks and find the villain who has a 99.9999999% chance of changing his/her body and identity.

>>18648814

Just take standard spells and refluff them to be more spidery.

That one is just Magic Missile.

>>18648962

Flesh to spiders?

>>18648962
Spider Grease.
Sleepy Spider Powder.
Glorious Spider Light.

>>18648991

Easier to convert Disintegrate into Flesh To Spiders.

That fancy shield you had? It's now spiders.

That awesome hireling bard? Spiders.

The table you were standing on to escape all the creepy crawly legs? Fucking spiders.

>>18648991
Oh god. . .

Spiderball!
Spider Bolt!
Spiders to flesh!
Polymorph (into spiders, duh).

Awaken Spiders.

Then teach them to be psionic.

CRY HAVOC AND UNLEASH THE SPIDERS OF WAR

>>18649102
>Spiders to flesh!
And now I'm imagining a swarm of spiders rising up and congealing into the shape of a human. They won't stop at the shape, though. A group of spiders form the liver, another will form the heart, more will form the skin. Every human organ and tissue will be made of spiders and still be functional both as that organ and as spiders.

This WAS a riddle thread.
Then Mr. Wizard Spider cast Thread to Spiders.
God damn him and his 8 monocles.

The monocles? Spiders

That bag of holding? Filled to its maximum capacity in spiders.

>this whole thread

Ashes to spiders, dust to spiders.

OP here. I was planning on having a riddle door that would just doom the party should they fail his test. Looks like evil Spider-Man as a BBEG is my new plan. Thanks, guys.

Spider boss monster.

When struck monster splits, producing additional spiders, smaller than the original. Original takes half damage and produces spiders equal to damage. When the spiders number equal to the boss's HP they may cast spiders to spider, and become a secondary spider boss monster.

Course you would need some weakness that doesn't cause the spider to split, or takes out the spiders produced by the split.

Also to throw the battle into total wtf, make the big spider able to revive the smaller spiders, and the smaller spiders healers.

>>18649253
Just make sure you share on /tg/ when you finish. Have to make sure people know.

>>18649258

>>18649258
Would that be when they equal the boss's original HP, or his current HP?

>>18649213
The spiders?
Actually, lots and lots of really riny spiders.
It's spiders the whole way down.

>>18649258
>When the spiders number equal to the boss's HP they may cast spiders to spider, and become a secondary spider boss monster.
>they may cast spiders to spider
>spiders to spider

Yoink.

>>18649253
You're welcome.

For mass confusion, when they kill the spiderman, he's actually full of BEES!

>>18649337

Original HP

>>18649379

Bees that can only be contained or destroyed by spiders and their webbing.

>>18649379
But not magical bees (like the spiders) or anything. There was just a hive in his abdomen he was unaware of.

>>18649402
Maybe he was aware of it? Delay cast "Bees to spiders."

>this fucking thread

>>18649356
Flip that around. Spider to spiders. When cast on a spider, turns it into many many smaller spiders. Imagine a large spider that jumps at you, then turns into a swarm of tiny spiders just before it hits you. You're all "Oh god, narrow escape.", then you take 1d4d4d4 (roll a d4, that's how many d4 you roll to find out how many d4 of damage you take) from tiny spiders everywhere!

>>18649087
>>18648991
>Flesh to Spiders
>spell his arm
>ARM FALLS OFF. IS NOW SPIDERS
Nightmare fuel? Nightmare fuel.

>>18649530
Fire to spiders.
Firespiders.
Actually, the entire extended video game elemental array of spiders.
Waterspiders, Earthsipders, airspiders, coldspiders, lighningspiders, icecspiders, lavapsiders, darkspiders (darkness to spiders/shadow to spiders sounds fun), lightspiders (light to spiders sounds also fun, especially as they're now in the dark, holyspiders, undeadspiders, plantspiders, rockspiders, windspiders, spiderspiders, giant spiders, flying spiders, magic/arcane spiders, acidspiders, poisonspiders, purplespiders, extraelementspiders, mithrilspiders, metalspiders, ironspiders, copperspiders, goldspiders, silverspiders, rustspiders, soulspiders (oh, imagine soul to spiders), eyespiders (eye to spiders sounds fun too!) and of course the clasic boss spiders.

How do you dig half a hole?

>>18649612
Put a spider in it.

>>18649612

I don't know how you dig half a hole, but I dig half a hole with spiders. (casts earth to spiders, only have leave)

What is weightless, can be seen with the naked eye, and when you put it in a barrel, it makes the barrel lighter?

>>18649637
Air-elemental spiders.

>>18649637

Spiders? or um, fire spiders.

Name 3 things that are NOT spiders?


go.

>>18649670

This is a trick question isn't it? we name three things, you then turn those three things into spiders, right?

>>18649670
Scorpions, wasps, and bot flies.

>>18649670
Nothing.

>>18649686
They are now spiders in addition to what they were before.

>>18649697

>>18649670
Vinegaroons
Solifuges
Harvestmen

>>18649697

I fucking called it
>>18649685


This is why we don't play this game people. No one plays fair, no one.

Vilians master plans include:

Permenent ring gate to the elemental plane of spiders.
Upon finding this is not a thing, attempts to create one, using Water to Spiders on the elemental plane of water. All of it.
Custom epic level spell: everything to spiders. This of course is extrapolated from his custom spell: anything to spiders.
Wants to create a spider that breeds asexually a la splitting in two, once every miniute.

"Why would you even want to do any of this?"
"SPIDERS!"
Maybe have him imprisoned in a lamp to create a version of Dicko the Genie, except instead of inside the sun, everything ends up with SPIDERS.

>>18649710
This game and you are now spiders.

>>18649758
>>18649601
Oh god, Genespiders!
Also, Genie to spiders.

Hmmm, dwarf to spiders, elf to spiders, human to spiders, brain to spiders, skin to spiders, hair to spiders, clothes to spiders, armour to spiders, shield to spiders, weapon to spiders.

Upon looting his lair you find nothing but hidden spiders, traps shooting spiders at you, made from spiders. And wands of wand to spiders.

>>18649758

You say that like I wasn't already spiders.

Upon his death you find that it was just a sentient spider controlling a very life like steam punk robot.

>>18649811
Upon his death the permanence that made everything in his lair physical objects made from spiders to <x> wears off. His entire castle lair becomes spiders again, and you're in the top tower.
Except the wands of wand to spiders. They were legit.

Grass to Spiders anyone?
How about leaves?

How about web to spiders guys?

>>18649849
How about sand to spiders?

>>18649843
>>18649849
>>18649864
Air to spiders. Now you're breathing spiders.

Blood to spiders. In your veins.
Crawling.

Bone to spiders. You collapse without your bones in an inhuman way. You are alive, if somewhat unable to do anything. Then the spiders emerge.

>>18649934
Willpower to spiders. Suddenly spiders, and you're terrorfied.

Fear to spiders. In a town that has seen his shenanagains, suddenly, so many spiders.

Nitrogen to spiders.
Suddenly 78% of the air around the party is made of spiders.
They still have oxygen and other gases to aid in breathing, only instead of inhaling and exhaling mostly nitrogen into their lungs, they now inhale and exhale inert, living spiders.

>>18649934
>>18649949
Goddamnit, minutes too late.

Spidercage.

You are trapped in an unbreakable cage grown from the abdomen of a giant spider.

>alternatively, the BBEG is now Nick Cage, playing a spider.

>>18649954
Time to spiders.
Gravety to spiders.
Logic to spiders.

>>18649670
Tasty, moist, and yummy Futa?

>>18649980
Forcespider
Evocation [Force, Spider]
Level: Sor/Wiz 7
Components: V, S, M, Spider
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Area: Spider
Duration: 2 hours/level (D)
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

This powerful spell brings into being an invisible spider composed of force.

Creatures within the area are caught and eaten unless they are too big to fit inside, in which case the spider will chew first. Teleportation and other forms of astral travel provide a means of escape, but the spider extends into the Ethereal Plane.

Like a wall of force spell, a forcespider resists dispel magic, but it is vulnerable to a disintegrate spell, and it can be destroyed by a sphere of annihilation or a rod of cancellation.

Material Component

Ruby spiders worth 1,500 gp, which are tossed into the air and disappear when you cast the spell.

>>18649983
>>18649983
Fetish to spiders.

>>18650062
Semen to Spiders.


I'm just gonna let that sink in.

>>18650083
ohh... ohgod... AUANFHBSADUFHBSUGVBDFUHBDSUFHB
WHY DID YOU GIVE ME THAT MENTAL IMAGE

>>18650083

>>18650083
thisismyfetish.jpeg

>>18650083

I came spiders,
will save failed, OH dear gods, collapses.
Passed, barely, I think I can deal with this.
nat 20, Shows it off, a Drow, swoons.

>>18650182
see
>>18650062

The cycle is complete.

>>18650083
...why do I want to try this...

>>18650282
Because you're a sick bastard and should feel bad.

>>18650282
"SPIDERS!"

Oh fuck I fucking hate spiders! Dam you all to what ever make belief thingy of doom! I almost had a motherfucking micfucking fuck heart attack because of fucking arachnophobia! Fuck!

>>18650557
You now cum spiders.

>>18650609
>look at his head

>>18650617
>They've already infiltrated our defenses

>>18650617
The villian has a number of odd shapes moving around on him. On closer inspection they are tattoos of spiders, walking on his skin. Yeah, you guessed it, "Tattoo to spider."

>>18650662

No, not tattoo to spider, The tattoos should continuously produce spiders crawling out of them.

>>18650617

>>18650668
So... Spider shaped holes that just pour out spiders?

We need a drawfag to get on this.

>>18650719
I like the idea of spiders just crawling out of his clothes, for no apparent reason. And occasionally out of his mouth.

"What moves inside of all of us
but has no life of it's own?"
Zombie spider, though heart is also a good answer.
"Heart to spider."

This thread reminds me of when my friends and I learned of the Book of Vile Darkness and thought how silly the whole book was.
Someone pointed out the Spider Hand spell and we couldn't stop laughing. It turned your hand into a spider.

Someone then suggested a cursed item that was a pair of gloves. Put said gloves on and Spider Hand is cast, turning both your hands into spiders.

here's a simple fun trap that is painfully obvious - yet quite sneaky

its the old
>two doors, with two masks over them, one tells the truth, the other always lies, and one door leads to certain doom, the other to your goal

here's the catch: while one does tell the 'truth' and the other lies, then they're made to lead you in the wrong direction no matter what. I mean, the people who made the place would know the right way anyway, why would they need ridles to figure out where to go?

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCw3pxL_7FE

Nanomachines shaped like spiders! Nanomachines!
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Shaped like spiders (crawling in your skin!)

>>18650805
Both doors lead to spiders.
The truth/lie people? Spiders.
The doors? Spiders.

>>18650804
Nice, I like that. Additionally, the gloves are made from polymorphed spiders, so casting dispel magic will turn them back into spiders.

>>18650824

I cast spiders to spider, then hit with a hammer.

>>18650830
They split into smaller spiders. Then crawl into your orifices. All of them.

>>18650851

I cast flesh to spiders and handle this like a spider, spiders to spiders.

>>18650830
I cast hammer to spiders. Enjoy.

>>18650859
>the only way to defeat the spiders is on their turf, you must become a spider to fight them

>>18650859
I cast enlarge spiders (area). Then cast spiders to more spiders (area).

>>18650829
Spider Legs is also a hilarious spell. The Caster grows 4 spider legs and gains a 30ft speed and 15ft Climb speed.

I made lots of use of the spell by storing it in a Spell Storing Dagger and hitting my friends with it. The Druid made great use of this tactic by Wild-Shaping into things like Tigers and Grizzlies, climbing up walls, then making charge attacks at people by dropping from rooftops and ceilings.

Good times. Good times indeed.

>>18650824
>>18650824
>>18650824


I can fabricate you some now if you want? How about a billion--using cell sized micromachines that contain "true" nanomachines--per every...um... eighth nanoswarm?

Watch'a think of my new morph?

>The Aburame clan (油女一族, Aburame Ichizoku) is one of the four noble clans of Konohagakure.[1] They are characterised by their use of insects as weapons. The insects live in symbiosis within the body of the shinobi. At birth, members of this clan are offered to a special breed of insects called kikaichū as a nest, residing just under their host's skin.

I need house rules for something like this in GURPS and I need it now--with spiders!

>>18650914
Spider Legs:
not to be confused with Spiders to Legs.

I once played a savage worlds game, My character was a Bestial race who pretty much resembled a crossbreed between an Orc, Bigfoot, with claws for hands and a vile temperament.

He once tore a Boss-encounter Sandwurm beast in half by grabbing each end of its jaw and pulling until he split it down the middle, moments after it made its first appearance.

My Character died while fighting a horse-sized spider. Not because the Horse-sized spider, but because the thousands of little spiders crawling up his body biting his furry ass all the way up.

If that wasn't bad enough, one of the party members decided to smash a lantern in the swarm, setting them on fire. IT was rather effective, about half-died or scattered, the other half carried on, setting more spiders on fire.

Unfortunatley, most of the now enflamed spiders were swarming my not-so-gentle-giant bigfoot ogre, who was now covered in burning spiders while being on fire himself, flailing with claws the size of small swords and being badly poisoned as he goes.

>>18650945
Probably an Innate Attack using a different damage to like Fatigue, Corrosion and Toxic to represent the various breeds of bugs.

Some are flesh devouring, some can change colors, some ate chakra, ect.

I CAST

SPELLS TO SPIDERS

>>18650971
Spells to spiders:
Creates a magic-to-spider zone where all spells cast become spiders. d(spell level) spiders are generated for every spell cast in this zone, and the original spell is stopped as per an anti-magic zone. Spells that are already spiders (have the Spider quality) are unnaffected, although they do create spiders as well.

What are spiders made out of?

>>18651100
Smaller spiders.

>yfw it's a never ending cycle

So if spiders are made out of spiders, then I assume everything is made out of spiders. And if the smaller spiders make bigger spiders, until you get to a spider, would that mean that we are also spiders?

>>18651111
We're all the stuff of sta-
SPIDERS!!!!!!!!!!

>>18651124
The universe is expanding.
And as it does, the spider that is the universe is ever getting bigger.

>>18651106
see
>>18649347

>>18651111
We will be, if the spider man gets his way.

>>18651141
>>18651111
That's it! That's his plan! To turn everyone and everything into spiders! He wants to turn this world into the spider worldg. Thanks, /tg/. Knew I could count on you to make a good villain.

>>18651250
It took us 6 hours, a fetish related detour and I'm unsure how many reaction immages, but we did it!

Now he needs a name, ideally one that doesn't make people think of Spidey. Ideally one that sets him up as a riddle based sphynx guy, but on closer inspection, his name is spiders.

>>18651250
see
>>18649758

>>18651250
/tg/'s get shit done list:
[x] Created an arachnid based villain
[ ] Everything else

I have an eye, but cannot see.
I'm cold and hard and never kind,
But despite this you must see
There is a point to me

>Implying it's a fucking spider.

>>18651380
Needlespider.

>>18651380
It's a needlesstosay

>>18651398
>>18651407

>>18651380

Is it wrong that I am picturing a spider with really long legs hiding as a needle, complete with thread? or is that in the correct category.

>>18651435
You are correct sir.

"At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen."

Open thread.

Thread is spiders.

mfw

>>18651474

The only good spider is a Jumping Spider.

Forever bro's!

>>18651478

It's playing Bach techno

>>18651459
Starspiders

>>18651548
Correctspider.

"I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball."

>>18651551
Airspiders?

>this
>fucking
>thread

This thing is still up? Wow. Do... Do we archive now?

>>18651551
I might feel like answering this, TOMORROWspider.

>>18651564
Spiderno.

>>18651584
God damnit tell me I'm spidercorrect already

>>18651551
Timespiders?

Pulling spiders out of my ass here.

>>18651551
>>18651583
I'm pretty sure the answer is Tomorrow. But I guess it could also be The Future.

>>18651551
If the answer is air spider, most parts of this riddle is not right.

>"I never was, am always to be,

When the sun dies out in roughly five billion years time, earths atmosphere will be blown away. Because of this it will not "always be"

>No one ever saw me, nor ever will
Since air is composed of chemicals I'd say we already do via the coloration effect from sunlight (why our sky is blue, venus sky is sulffery yellow, and mar's sky is red). One also wounders about technological means of seeing chemicals. Those might someday be linked to our brains as we can already restore sight to the blind from implants--though they can barely see very low grade pixeled shapes.

Tomorrowspiders it is then.

>>18651641
scientist troll

>>18651583
correctspider.

"The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place."

>>18651663
Nothingspider?

>>18651663
Entropy spider?

>>18651663
The letter 'E'.

I only know that because I've heard it before.

E-Spider.

>>18651684
Fucking clever.


Spider.

>>18651684
correctspider.

"There was a green house.
Inside the green house there was a white house
Inside the white house there was a red house.
Inside the red house there were lots of babies."

>>18651730
What's the spiderriddle?

>>18651730
Watermelon.

I'VE HEARD ALL THESE BEFORE

so I'm going to stop giving answers after this.

Watermelonspider.

lol. Watermerlon spider, that'd be so awesome. Some round fat spider.

>>18651730
E stood for entropy, right?

>>18651756
nope, just the letter e. Spider.

>>18651748
Guess it could have used a "What spider was it?"

"Has a mouth but does not speak, has a bed but never sleeps!"

>"Has a mouth but does not speak, has a bed but never sleeps!"
Spiders actually fit that description, I believe.

rolled 3 = 3

>>18651764
>>18651788
>the one riddle the villain uses that the answer isn't "spiders"

>>18651788
Trueenoughspider.

Though I was thinking riverspider.

That would be a good one for use if one wanted to use a clasic, then have the answer be spider.

"A house.. one enters it blind, one leaves it seeing?"

>>18651849
the answer is actually BEEEEEEEEEEEEEESS!

>>18651906
Villain of the year, all years.

He plants dead trees and plants dead ones.

He's making a fence.

>>18652336

>and plants dead ones.

Whoops. Meant to say " Chops down live ones. "

>>18652336
>He removes living trees and plants dead ones.

>He's making a spiderfence.
>STFY (spider'd this for you)

>>18652365
>spider
This isn't going to become a thing, is it?

>>18652387
Don't know, it might.

Have some MacGuffin be a magical rubik's cube, but don't inform the players that property of it. Make it some unknown item that is held in the grips of some wizard, he gives them this riddle.

>It shifts its form by your touch, becoming something stranger
>You have to show the world its true shape, if you wish to avoid danger
>What is it?

Have them go on a quest to learn that the answer is the macguffin itself, with the wizard revealing that the damn thing has a curse that unless one can solve that mystery it'll just return to the previous owner's possession once you go 100 feet away. Also, giving the answer negates that because he tried it before and found the thing back on his dresser more scrambled than it had been before he tried to give it away.

spiders

where did all the spiders go

>>18653423
Spider heaven

>>18653432
Or spider hell

>>18652438

A rubikspider? Interesting, dear boy: tell me more.

>>18653432
>>18653445
What about Spider Purgatory?

>>18653457
Spider Nirvana

SPIDER VALHALLA

There are no spiders, only holograms

>>18653477
Tell me more.

>>18653488
>hologram projector is made of spiders
>projects more spiders

>If a man builds a house with four walls that all face north and a bear walks by the house
>What color is the bear?

>inb4 color of spiders

>>18653581
Why is there a bear at the south pole?

>>18653596
Holy fuck berries, someone actually got it right.

>>18653596
I, i don't aaaarrrrrhhhhhhhggggg...

best riddlemaster ever, catches you out with the simpleness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWS8Mg-JWSg

>>18653618
I'm good at these sorts of thing, they are fun.

>Oh cool, a riddle thread. I love these.
>Open thread.
>Thread is spiders.
>MFW

>>18653693

Aren't you getting a little too cocky? Come on, it's like the oldest riddle in the book.

Anyway, I think that a better answer would have been: how come the spiderhouse still hasn't absorbed the bearspider?

>>18653728
I'll admit it's an old riddle.
How about some /tg/ related riddles? I'll be impressed if you can work out how they are related without googling.

What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?

>>18653744

Easy, a spidermountain!

>>18653744

>implying difficulty
>stealing from the fucking hobbit

ISHYGDDT

>>18653744
Pretty sure everyone on /tg/ has read the hobbit. You're bad, and you should feel bad.

>>18653772

Come on now, don't be spidermean to him, you big spidermeanie!

Whoa, I could totally turn this spider thing into a catchprase! A spidercatchphrase, if you will. . .

>>18653764
>>18653772
Touché, I was looking for /tg/ related and it was the first thing that came to mind.

The moon and stars I can abide
I cannot stand the sun
If you bring a torch to me
You'll see me turn and run.

>>18653804
What is lighter than a feather, but hard to hold?

>>18653814
Shadow

>>18653814

I don't know, darkness?

>>18653822
A breath

>>18653814
Why the fuck are there always a thousand million riddles with the answer shadow/darkness. They're all equally obvious.

>>18653822

. . . really? Your breath. Or a spider. It's a spider, isn't it?

>>18653843
I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champagne bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?

You need to have an alternate option, maybe an NPC who can help them figure it out that they need to spend a lot of time or resource to find or something because, while the answer to a riddle or puzzle might seem obvious to you, it might not to your players. Trust me. I had an elemental door puzzle that took my players hours to get.

>>18653861
Spiders, obviously.

>>18653861

Timespiders.

>>18653861
Pressure

>>18653894
>>18653899
...

>>18653899

. . . oh god.

>>18653920
If the last line was not there, that would be the answer. Why?

>>18653920

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpn8MANhdLU

>>18653933

because it's a shitty riddle?

>>18653933
The last line still works. Pressure makes you pop. Usually your ears.

>>18653955
>>18653954
>Can you guess the riddle?
It's not asking you for the answer.
Pedantic use of language go!

When young, I am sweet in the sun.
When middle-aged, I can help to make you healthy.
When old, I am valued more than ever

>>18653961
That line makes refers to the riddle as a separate object and thus can not be part of the riddle. That is a secondary question I chose not to answer.

>>18653961

. . . wut

>>18653975
>refers
>reference

>>18653976
>1: "Can you answer the riddle?"
>2: "yeah, I can"
>...
>1: "So.. you gonna tell me?"
>2: "What, I need to tell you my answer?. This wasn't part of the deal!"

>>18653976
>>18653975
You are asked to guess the riddle, what is the riddle it is talking about? It is not asking for the answer.

The answer is no.

>>18654012
>It is not asking for the answer.
It is not asking to the answer to the riddle, it is asking for the answer to the question.

>>18653974

Wine?

>>18654012
He gives you a riddle. Then he asks you to guess "the riddle". The choice of "the" means that the riddle is a separate object from the question of whether or not you can guess the riddle. Had it said "this riddle" it could be part of the riddle. But as it stands they are separate statements.

>>18654025
Partly.

Grape
Raison
Wine

>>18654034
Exactly

>>18654037

I'll admit, I was tempted to say 'sleep' as well.

>>18654012
If you want more semantics involving the question then the answer should actually be yes. You CAN guess the riddle. He does not ask if you can guess it correctly.

How about an easy one.

I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be

>>18654057
Few

>>18654068
Eyup.

My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.

>>18654078
A candle.

>>18654078
Spiders

We need more spiders ITT

>>18654337

Bullshit: spiders don't fear the wind.

>>18654786
web spinners and flying debris do not mix.

>>18654880

Flying debris is just another word for skyspider

>>18653744
But mountains do grow! Though not in the biological sense, their size is never-the-less changed via the shifting of tectonic plates.

>>18656430
well they can shrink too. but yes, mountains do grow. We forgive because it's Tolkien, however.

So guys:


Spiders

>>18658249
Yes, yes. Go on...

>>18662444
Ok, now think this:
Spiders
With wings.

>>18662526
I like what I'm hearing, but I think we can do better. How about... Psyker spiders.

>>18662876
Psyker Spiders....
With Jet Packs?

>>18662897
Yes, it's all coming together now.

>>18664261
I want this costume

>>18664339
that costume is now spiders

>>18651325

Name him Redips for an added bonus of the Megaman reference no one will get.

...Or Daddy. Espi Durse. I give up.

First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of the middle and the end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

I imagine everyone already knows this one but with the general theme of the thread it needs to be posted.

>>18664935

That one actually is a Spider.
And more people seem to have watched the movies than read the books, but this is /tg/ so yeah probably.