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Started by JongWK, January 21, 2009, 08:48:41 AM

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Quote from: JongWK;279622Easter eggs = hidden references that are fun to find

Remember that non-magical scrolls list I created? The one with a list of secret handshakes (#33), the answer to a very important question (#42), or a government-issued carte blanche that looked suspiciously similar to the one from The Musketeers?

That kind of Easter eggs. I blame the videogames industry for spreading the term.

Yes, except that's not really an "easter egg", its just a hidden reference or in-joke. An easter egg really is something that would only apply in video/DVD terminology.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;279682Yes, except that's not really an "easter egg", its just a hidden reference or in-joke. An easter egg really is something that would only apply in video/DVD terminology.

Nope, don't agree. Easter egg can really be (and has been) used to refer to hidden "nuggets" in a variety of media.
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Ok.. I guess I stand corrected. I had just never heard it mentioned outside of DVDs. And you see that in DVDs, it doesn't mean like in-jokes in the film, it means like "press the up arrows twice in the menu and you'll find a secret scene!"
So wouldn't an "Easter Egg" in a book have to be like "take the first word of each paragraph and you get a whole new random chart!"?

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Now that could breed a whole new era of interesting things coming out in our beloved books, couldn't it, he he. This book appears to be quite interesting will definitely be getting a copy.
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