D&D (2024) 2024 DMG Easter Eggs

[mikeburke]

The Planar Adventure Situations in Chapter 6 has this:

A foolhardy knight carried a holy weapon on a doomed mission into the Nine Hells, and the powers of Mount Celestia want the weapon and the knight’s remains retrieved.

I think I met this knight a few years ago.

Any other Easter Eggs that folks have spotted?

 

[Parmandur]

The Planar Adventure Situations in Chapter 6 has this:

A foolhardy knight carried a holy weapon on a doomed mission into the Nine Hells, and the powers of Mount Celestia want the weapon and the knight’s remains retrieved.

I think I met this knight a few years ago.

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Any other Easter Eggs that folks have spotted?

In the Flavors of Fantasy section in tge Campaigns chapter, one of the suggestions under the heading "Crossing the Streams" is titled "Gamma World" and has suggestions for a post-apocalyptic Fantasy Campaign.

Probably the best is the magicshop in Greyhawk, owned by the classic TSR mascot and named Unearthed Arcana after the classic Gygax book (and recycling one of my favorite pieces of 5E art, to boot!)

 

[mikeburke]

In the cosmology chapter, there’s a location in the Elemental Plane of Water called “The Isle of Dread”.

Ships from different worlds of the Material Plane end up wrecked on the rocks and reefs around the island, and settlements across the island are populated by the descendants of sailors who never found a way home.

 

[pukunui]

The 2014 DMG had The Prancing Pony as an Easter Egg in the random tavern name generator, but they appear to have swapped out a bunch of the names for the 2024 version, including that one. The new table has The Dancing Hut, which I suppose is a reference to Baba Yaga.

In the cosmology chapter, there’s a location in the Elemental Plane of Water called “The Isle of Dread”.

Ships from different worlds of the Material Plane end up wrecked on the rocks and reefs around the island, and settlements across the island are populated by the descendants of sailors who never found a way home.

That was in the 2014 DMG as well. They seem to have expanded on that earlier entry a little bit.

Here's the 2014 version: "One of the few actual islands on the plane is the Isle of Dread. The island is connected to the Material Plane by means of a regular storm that sweeps over the island. Travelers who know the strange tides and currents of the plane can travel between worlds freely, but the storms also wreck ships from the Material Plane on the island’s shore."

And here's the full 2024 version: "One of the few islands on the plane is the Isle of Dread, which is connected to the Material Plane by means of a storm that regularly sweeps over the island. Ships from different worlds of the Material Plane end up wrecked on the rocks and reefs around the island, and settlements across the island are populated by the descendants of sailors who never found a way home. Theoretically, travelers who understand the workings of the storm could use it to travel to a desired Material Plane world."

 

[sevenbastard]

The Dungeon Hideout map page 369 is a homage to the Ruined Keep map in B/X.

They could have nailed it by having the lower level more closely match the side view presented in B/X, but the east tower is clearly the same.

 

[Stormonu]

The Unearthed Arcana shop in the city of Greyhawk also happens to be the name of the first player/DMG supplement from 1E.