D&D 5E Easter eggs in D&D

[Eltab]

Aid - uses a small strip of white cloth iow a bandage.
Alarm - uses a small bell, one version of the spell causes a chime to sound in your head.

Somebody with the 3e Spell Compendiums ought to build a list of fun and oddly-appropriate components.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Neutralize Poison's material component is a bit of charcoal. If you know your poison first aid, consuming charcoal is recommended to absorb certain ingested toxins.

Suggestion's material components? "A snake’s tongue and either a bit of honeycomb or a drop of sweet oil": you speak with a forked tongue/honeyed words/slick talker

 

[Uchawi]

A lot of re-used easter eggs from the earliest editions forward, so I am not be convinced that they are new from a 5E perspective.

 

[MostlyDm]

I never realized how systematic these were.

Message is a copper wire (because that's what we use to send messages over distance today!), false life is a bit of alcohol... I bet most material components fit like this, if you look at them right.

 

[aramis erak]

I never realized how systematic these were.

Message is a copper wire (because that's what we use to send messages over distance today!), false life is a bit of alcohol... I bet most material components fit like this, if you look at them right.

It's important to realize that one of the most potent and obvious influences on Gygax's written game is Jack Vance's Dying Earth series... and that's post-holocaust science fantasy. It's even got flying cars. (In all great irony, 5E is actually closer to the Dying Earth methodology than any prior edition...)

Not that D&D is "the Dying Earth RPG" - it's got quite a few other ones, but few so pervasive as the vancian magic.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Many spells and items were directly lifted from or inspired by Vance's Dying Earth...as well as The Bible, LotR, and so many of the varied bits of literature the game's creators favored.

 

[CapnZapp]

A lot of re-used easter eggs from the earliest editions forward, so I am not be convinced that they are new from a 5E perspective.

They are new from the perspective of someone whose first edition of D&D is 5E