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[–] ArbitraryValue 61 points 4 days ago (4 children)

They're the "Say Friend and Enter" runes. Gandalf couldn't figure them out but Merry (accidentally) did.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Actually my inspiration to use the "your character is too smart" sometimes when a smart character flops a roll

"You're too busy getting lost in the many potential complex solutions to the riddle, and are hopelessly consumed by it's mysteries" for "when is a door not a door" or similar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That sounds like fun!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Just read that scene last week, actually. I forgot Gandalf's cope entirely.

"I was trying to so hard to remember obscure lore I forgot we weren't all paranoid psychos in those days"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

The bottom bit looks like Loss; ~~:.|:;~~

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

it was Frodo who figured it out