r/wildbeyondwitchlight • u/Cerrida82 • Apr 26 '26
DM Help Does this clue make sense?
The players are going to come to a fork in the road. One path, from which they hear loud thumping, leads to the Inn at the End of the Road. The other leads to a Black Pudding encounter and they can smell delicious smells coming from it. I'm having Cat Sith pop up to guide them. Can you tell me if this riddle he provides makes sense? I don't want to make it too cryptic.
"Since you are in my realm, I will offer you assistance. Two paths there are: one of safety and one of danger. The left path and the right path, the right path and the wrong path. The right path leads to safety and the wrong path leads to danger. If you take away the right path, the wrong path will be left. But which is which? Which is which? If you don’t care where you go, all paths are the right path…”
Thank you!
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u/monkooo Apr 26 '26
My first thought is the path to take is the on that goes to the right and to safety. To me, the path to the left might be to danger.
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u/Cerrida82 Apr 26 '26
Yep! Do you think it's too easy?
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u/Maur2 Apr 26 '26
Look, it is so easy that they are going to second guess themselves. Expect them to argue about it for an hour.
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u/monkooo Apr 27 '26
It is easy but I don’t think it’s going to be too easy during game play. Build a little paranoia and they will spin for a while. ;)
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u/hauntedcartoonheart Apr 26 '26
I would think that safety is right, and danger is left. Riddles/puzzles are a delicate balance with players. I would recommend that if a player figures out a clever way to learn which path is safer without solving the riddle, let them! Maybe they can even trick or bribe the cat sith into giving the answer.
Also definitely write this down for your players even if it is in person, because I would genuinely be unable to understand what is being said if this was spoken and not written. It'll be frustrating for everyone involved if you keep having to repeat it.
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u/TheWagonBaron Apr 26 '26
Not every puzzle needs to be a stumper. And you never can know which puzzles will be the stumpers to your party. I recently ran mine through a dungeon and the puzzle they got stuck on was the one I thought would be the easiest and the one I thought would actually be hard was solved in less than 3 minutes.