"Easter Eggs" in RPGs

DKChannelBoredom · February 23, 2011, 02:58:53 AM

Quote from: ggroy;441942Zagyg = Gygax's name spelled backwards.

Ehh :hmm:

Delta Greens "Targets of Opportunity" had a lot of stuff about the a tad controversial avatar of Nyarlathotep, Niot Abur Am'st, aka... Masturbation.

Seanchai · February 23, 2011, 10:15:08 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;442028...that Iaunched a serious internet-war against for what it implied about the wish-fulfillment utopia of the authors of that setting...

It did? Or dudes on the Internet need to have a war over something and picked the magic deer?

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everloss · February 23, 2011, 10:57:18 AM

Bill Coffin was always good at leaving clever references in his books.

Land of the Damned: 1 had a reference to two doomsday devices called the Knobby Goblin and the (I know I'm getting this wrong but it's close) The Portly Nobleman.

Benoist · February 23, 2011, 11:07:51 AM

Quote from: Cole;442032There are a lot more. Magic Mouth calls for a piece of honeycomb - I may be imagining this but I think it's related to an old cereal commercial

That would not surprise me one bit.

Some of Greyhawk's Easter Eggs.

PaladinCA · February 23, 2011, 02:26:48 PM

Quote from: CRKrueger;441954No, he means that in True20 there is an actual creature entry for Deer, Magic. That is a reference to the Blue Rose deer.

I must have missed it. I'll check it out.

Quote from: Aos;441968Error.
It is on page 132 of the True20 Adventure Roleplaying hardcover.

Holy crap! Did I ever gloss over that one. It probably didn't register for good reasons. :idunno:

Quote from: RPGPundit;442028For that, and my push to get a True20 gamebook free of the Blue Rose setting taint, the response was that the True20 RPG had, in its monster section, a "magic deer". Just in case you think I'm making up the part of it being about me, the entry mentions that the "Magic deer gets particularly enraged by tobacco smoke", or something along those lines.

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I think the evidence is pretty strong. From page 134 of the Revised PDF:

"Magic deer have an unfriendly attitude toward anyone bringing fire into their territory, this includes any sort of smoking along with matches, torches, campfires, and so forth."

That is hilarious! :rotfl:

Aos · February 23, 2011, 02:35:18 PM

Do you have the revised book?
How is it?

PaladinCA · February 23, 2011, 02:47:00 PM

Quote from: Aos;442129Do you have the revised book?
How is it?

Sorry. It was the revised PDF that I was referring to.

I don't have the revised rule book but it is nice. I have flipped through it. It basically is just the hardcover (same as revised PDF) + companion - settings placed under a softcover.

It is the way I wish it had been done. I didn't need the setting info, though a couple of them were alright. I just can't justify the cost of buying the revised rulebook when I already own the original PDF, the revised PDF, and the hardcover rulebook and the companion.

I'd trade for it though if one was available.

RPGPundit · February 24, 2011, 12:16:34 PM

Quote from: PaladinCA;442126"Magic deer have an unfriendly attitude toward anyone bringing fire into their territory, this includes any sort of smoking along with matches, torches, campfires, and so forth."

That is hilarious! :rotfl:

Yes, that's the sort of evidence that must make it really suck to be one of those Pundit-haters desperately trying to claim I have no impact. At the very least, its pretty clear that to green ronin, it was ME, and not someone else or market forces or a broad movement or they'd-planned-it-all-along, that was the major thorn in their side.

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RPGPundit · February 26, 2011, 02:13:10 PM

I thought I'd mention another one here: an illustration in RIFTS Atlantis shows the SDF-1 as part of the Splugorth Capital's skyline.

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Reckall · February 26, 2011, 05:08:38 PM

Dunno if this counts as an "easter egg", but the sample adventure in 3E DMG is the same found in 1E DMG, converted for the new ruleset.

RPGPundit · February 27, 2011, 02:36:20 PM

Quote from: Reckall;442698Dunno if this counts as an "easter egg", but the sample adventure in 3E DMG is the same found in 1E DMG, converted for the new ruleset.

I would say so, and in that case there's actually quite a lot of "easter egg" type material in the 3e books, particularly the DMG, with regards to having an homage to the 1e books.

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Reckall · February 28, 2011, 11:57:26 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;442785I would say so, and in that case there's actually quite a lot of "easter egg" type material in the 3e books, particularly the DMG, with regards to having an homage to the 1e books.

The cover of the Player's Handbook II for 3.5E shows the same scene (a thief stealing a gem from an idol's eye) on the cover of the very first AD&D's Player's Handbook, only from a different angle.

Also, in the Forgotten Realms 4E there is an illustration showing the horseman that graced the box cover of the first edition of the setting.

And I forgot the best one: the cover of the "A Paladin in Hell" adventure written by Monte Cook, which is based on the famous illustration found in the Dungeon Master Guide (and which inspired Cook to write the adventure itself).

Spinachcat · March 01, 2011, 12:49:43 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;442028totalitarian venisonocracy

Venisonocracy!!!

Pure awesome. Kudos Pundit. And thanks for fighting for True20. Shame there had to be bad blood to get something very cool onto the market.

Dirk Remmecke · March 01, 2011, 05:40:32 AM

The black-bordered AD&D Second Edition Revised rule books had lots and lots of illustrations that were based on the line art found in the First Edition rule books.

Shawn Merrow · March 02, 2011, 05:25:11 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;442680I thought I'd mention another one here: an illustration in RIFTS Atlantis shows the SDF-1 as part of the Splugorth Capital's skyline.

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A few of the artist loved hiding jokes in their art. The two who did it the most where Ramon Perez Jr. and Scott Johnson. One of my favorites is Darth Maul in a crowd scene in System Failure.