D&D 5E Easter Eggs in 5E

[tuxgeo]

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Also, has anybody tried to play the music shown on pg161 of the PHB yet? I'm afraid I don't read sheet music so I'm stuck on that one.

I tried to transcribe it into a text file, but the result looked like gibberish to me. There's no time signature, and the timing of the bars varies hugely:
the first bar on the second line contains a single eighth-note, while the second bar on the bottom line contains three quarter-notes. Several consecutive bars contain two eighth-notes in one bar but two quarter-notes in another bar. I'm not sure how anyone could play that. I haven't tried yet.

Also, the Treble-clef sign is positioned on the third line from the bottom, whereas in European music it is supposed to be positioned on the second line from the bottom, looping around the position of the "G" note. (Does this mean that "G" is in the center of that weird clef, bringing "Middle C" up to the bottom line instead of its usual position on a ledger-line below the clef? It makes little sense to me so far.)

I was going to propose that it might be Cloud's music from FF-VII, but I saw that the "VII" at the top is backward: it is written as "IIV" instead.

 

[Beleriphon]

I tried to transcribe it into a text file, but the result looked like gibberish to me. There's no time signature, and the timing of the bars varies hugely:
the first bar on the second line contains a single eighth-note, while the second bar on the bottom line contains three quarter-notes. Several consecutive bars contain two eighth-notes in one bar but two quarter-notes in another bar. I'm not sure how anyone could play that. I haven't tried yet.

I noticed, I got interested enough to try a few free sheet music programs, but none of them seem to be able to accept the weird notations. I assumed a 4/4 and with that the notes using a MIDI pan pipe sound like the electronic game Simon. Which is kind of funny really.

 

[JWO]

I tried to transcribe it into a text file, but the result looked like gibberish to me. There's no time signature, and the timing of the bars varies hugely:
the first bar on the second line contains a single eighth-note, while the second bar on the bottom line contains three quarter-notes. Several consecutive bars contain two eighth-notes in one bar but two quarter-notes in another bar. I'm not sure how anyone could play that. I haven't tried yet.

Also, the Treble-clef sign is positioned on the third line from the bottom, whereas in European music it is supposed to be positioned on the second line from the bottom, looping around the position of the "G" note. (Does this mean that "G" is in the center of that weird clef, bringing "Middle C" up to the bottom line instead of its usual position on a ledger-line below the clef? It makes little sense to me so far.)

I was going to propose that it might be Cloud's music from FF-VII, but I saw that the "VII" at the top is backward: it is written as "IIV" instead.

So what you're saying is that it's prog?

 

[Blackwarder]

PHB page 73. The tapestry inscription reads "This is Photoshop's version of 'lorem ipsum proin gravida nibh velit....' "

What script is this?

Warder

 

[evilives]

Looks like a version of the futhark runes to me. Runes in the initial positions of words are often reversed or inverted, but otherwise, pretty much like the script from The Hobbit.

 

[Roger]

Anyone rolling a '10' on the Treasure Horde: Challenge 11-16 table is in for a big surprise.



Cheers,
Roger

 

[Beleriphon]

Okay, so here's the sheet music from page 161 created via MuseScore 2.0. Its actually a jaunty little tune, although I made some pretty broad assumptions like making is one-two as a time measure so the notes seemed to work as shown. Its just a RAR file with a wave format inside.

View attachment DnD pg161.rar

 

[aramis erak]

I noticed, I got interested enough to try a few free sheet music programs, but none of them seem to be able to accept the weird notations. I assumed a 4/4 and with that the notes using a MIDI pan pipe sound like the electronic game Simon. Which is kind of funny really.

It's treble clef, shifted up one line. The clef circles the G. I'll plug it in and see how it sounds.
Time signature is an issue - whomever wrote it doesn't seem to know how to count. some of the measures are 2/8, some are 4/8

 

[seebs]

Looks like a version of the futhark runes to me. Runes in the initial positions of words are often reversed or inverted, but otherwise, pretty much like the script from The Hobbit.

Capital letters are reversed or inverted.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

In the trinkets section the silver spoon with an M engraved on it (#49) might be an homage to Murlynd's Spoon.