I'm currently in the process of writing a dungeon crawl for my party and the riddles in Tasha's left me wanting a bit more. I decided to write my own riddle that I'm quite proud of and wanted to share. Feel free to use it in your sessions!

The Dragon Riddle

Your party enters a large room, as they enter, a chandelier of candles lights into flame atop an old engraved stone font. On closer inspection the engraving shows dragons breathing living elementals at a hero holding a shield. The font is filled with a clear liquid which if consumed gives 2d4 poison damage.

In each corner of the room is a giant metal dragon head with its mouth open. One dragon sits in the centre of the wall with its mouth shut. Closer inspection of the dragons reveals the following:

Each dragon has a different gem stone in place of its eyes:

One has eyes of jet

One has eyes of ruby

One has eyes of quartz

One has eyes of emerald

It is up to the party to work out that the colours of the eyes are related to the different colours of dragon in the world and in order to open the door they must find a way to cast the corresponding element into the mouth of the dragon.

Jet - Black - Acid

Ruby - Red - Fire

Quartz - White - Cold

Emerald - Green - Poison

Placing something of an incorrect element will cause the dragon to attack into the room with its fire attack. Getting all correct will close their mouths and open the mouth of the final dragon on the wall.

I'm quite happy with it, there's a chance that it may be too simple for my party but I'm sure they'll have a lot of fun feeling super smart if they work it out right away!

I'd love to hear what riddles you've created that went down well!