One Last Riddle

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One Last Riddle is a 6-page short adventure module for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition released on February 2, 2001. It is suitable for player characters of 5th-7th level.

Spoiler alert: The following article contains spoilers for an adventure module.

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When the great sphinx Ujaset is slain, his ghost offers treasure to any heroes brave enough to avenge his death. Can your party solve his One Last Riddle to discover and defeat his killers? Game designer David Eckelberry offers the latest in our series of adventures.
This original Dungeons & Dragons scenario is suitable for a party of four to six characters of 5th to 7th level.
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The great sphinx Ujaset died last night. Before that time, the people of the surrounding land reported the occasional appearance of a translucent winged leonine figure in the skies above. Local folklore held that this beast sometimes halted the progress of travelers to trouble them with its clever questions, generously rewarding those who could answer the sphinx?s riddles. Perhaps it?s this very legend that has drawn the player characters to the region. . . .
The road stretches out as it has for the last hour. A cold wind brushes across your face, and while you look for its source, a low moan echoes. Staring into the twilight ahead, a pale, flickering form can be seen.
At first you see a the noble visage of a bearded man's head, twisted with sorrow. Then it's the body of a powerful lion, ten feet long and complete with swishing tail. Finally there's the great hawklike wings greater than any bird. The form twinkles, transculent, coalescing into a single being.
"Now you dare the last riddle of Ujaset," moans the voice. . . .

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The book was written by David Eckelberry. Art was provided by Cynthia Fliege and Sean Glenn.

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One Last Riddle was originally released for free on the Wizards of the Coast website on February 2, 2001, as part of its Original Adventures series. It remained online until around 2014.

On March 01, 2016, it was re-released on digital sale. It is currently available on DriveThruRPG and Dungeon Masters Guild for $0.99.

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As of 2023, One Last Riddle reached the rank of Silver seller on DriveThruRPG.

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Original Adventures 3e web series

The Alchemist's Eyrie • Bad Light • Bad Moon Waning • Base of Operations • Black Rain • The Burning Plague • Cave of the Spiders • The Crumbling Hall of the Frost Giant Jarl • A Dark and Stormy Knight • Desert Sands • Dry Spell • Environmental Impact • The Ettin's Riddle • An Eye for an Eye • The Eye of the Sun • Fait Accompli • Fallen Angel • Fang, Beak, and Claw • Force of Nature • A Frigid Demise • Frozen Whispers • The Ghosts of Aniel • A Harvest of Evil • Hasken's Manor • Haunting Lodge • House of Harpies • An Icy Heart • Ill Wind in Friezford • Into the Frozen Waste • Jungle Secrets • The Kopru Ruins • Legend of the Silver Skeleton • Lest Darkness Rise • Lochfell's Secret • Luck of the Draw • Manifesting: A Tale • Matters of Vengeance • The Ministry of Winds • One Last Riddle • A Question of Ethics • Road to Oblivion • The Sea Witch • The Secret of the Windswept Wall • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? • Sheep's Clothing • Shoals of Intrigue • Shrine of the Feathered Serpent • Something's Cooking • Start at the End • Stone Dead • Tarus's Banquet • The Temple of Redcliff • Test of the Demonweb • Thicker Than Water • The Thunder Below • Tiger's Palace • To Quell the Rising Storm • Tomb of Horrors • Tower in the Ice • The Tower of Deception • The Treasure of the Black Veils • The Unwavering Path • The Vessel of Stars • War of Dragons • White Plume Mountain • Wreck Ashore

Dungeons & Dragons 3.0
Core rules
Player's Handbook • Dungeon Master's Guide • Monster Manual • Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game
Supplements
Arms and Equipment Guide • Book of Challenges • Book of Vile Darkness • Defenders of the Faith • Deities and Demigods • Enemies and Allies • Epic Level Handbook • Fiend Folio • Ghostwalk • Hero Builder's Guidebook • Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (Gazetteer) • Manual of the Planes • Masters of the Wild • Monster Manual II • Oriental Adventures • Psionics Handbook • Savage Species • Song and Silence • Stronghold Builder's Guidebook • Sword and Fist • Tome and Blood
Adventures
The Sunless Citadel • The Forge of Fury • The Fright at Tristor • The Speaker in Dreams • The Standing Stone • Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil • Heart of Nightfang Spire • Deep Horizon • Lord of the Iron Fortress • Bastion of Broken Souls • City of the Spider Queen