Had a puzzle thrown at me by my DM this weekend.
I have scales but no wings, I guard treasure, precious things. Though I breathe no flame or fire, My riddles stir minds to inquire. What am I?
!a book!<
He admitted it was written by ai. I did not guess correctly.
AI doesn’t have a mind to do mental leaps, it only knows syntax. Just a form of syntax so, so advanced that it sometimes accidentally gets things factually correct. Sometimes.
It’s more advanced than just syntax. It should be able to understand the double meanings behind riddles. Or at the very least, that books don’t have scales, even if it doesn’t understand that the scales that a piano has aren’t the same as the ones a fish has.
I wouldn’t have either. At least partially because I have no idea what scales have to do with books.
The ghost of a scholarly dragon. No flame because dead but still being inscrutable with people
Why does it have scales but no wings? Also, lots of living dragons don’t have flame and breathe lightning, acid, poison, or cold instead.
That’s what I was thinking at first, but since when do banks have riddles? Though maybe in-universe riddles are considered top of the line security.
@Archpawn A passcode is a riddle. A lock is a riddle. The unknown contents of a vault are a riddle.
