I’m working on a campaign that has the player meet a creature pretending to be a sphynx and ask riddles of the players.
The trick is that that creature is both not that smart and thinks he’s very clever. They way past him is to praise him for being so smart that he agrees to let the adventurers go
What are some good ‘bad’ riddles to ask ?
By “bad” riddles, do you mean riddles that are so blatantly obvious that they’re basically no-brainers? Or rather something like bad puns? Does the riddle itself need to end up in praise for the sphynx, in some “who is the goodest boy in the room” sytle?