JohnnFour
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I brainstormed this list for Monday's Musing. Here are some ideas for doling out clues in different ways.
d30 Fantasy Clue Methods
d30 Fantasy Clue Methods
- A prophecy written on an amphora now in shards
- Written as a cypher on a bookmark inside a book it's the key for
- Carved with a dagger and scarred into the back of a powerful monster
- Embedded in a nursery rhyme
- A toy akin to a Rubik's Cube
- Worked into a famous piece of art
- Sewn as a tag inside a foe's special item of clothing
- Passed down from mother to child, garbled after five generations
- Runestones that can be ordered into words
- Petroglyph grafitti on a wall, floor, or ceiling
- An anagram of a book title
- A demon knows, but they must be convinced
- Three parts, each known by a king
- The result of a ritual you must cast but has bad side effects
- Tattoos inked onto the chest of a dangerous NPC
- Like the puzzle of a clever personalized license plate, but as a collection of simple objects in a box
- Stained into parchment and revealed when held up to light
- The scrambled phrase a parrot repeats
- Where a body points to
- Roll twice more with roll one being a false clue that hides the real clue via roll two.
- The first letter of each line of a bard's song
- Written on the bottom of a heavy statue
- Classic: the answer to a riddle
- Summon a demon and it quests for it but it demands an unusual price
- Charades performed as part of a repeating permanent silent illusion
- A talking animal who requires the party to play Twenty Questions.
- Carved into the ground or a wheat field and then seen from great height
- Reverse spelling of a fiend's name that summons the fiend when spoken
- Buried beneath the lair of a dangerous monster
- A secret compartment or portal that opens via chemical reaction when three types of potions are mixed together