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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5190227" data-attributes="member: 54707">Some time ago (a coupla years back) I was working on a video game script, placing Easter Eggs in the storyline. It occurred to me that I could do the same thing with my RPG adventures, missions, and scenarios.So I started making a list of Easter Eggs, categorizing them, seeing how they might be of various advantages to the players, etc. then began inserting them into adventures, missions, and scenarios, as well as fixing some to particular NPCs, locales, devices, etc.It has worked out excellently as a DM technique and one my players really seem to enjoy. (I think the first one I ever placed was in an area where one of my players was vadding. At first he didn't understand what it was or what it did, but it intrigued him and later on he made the connection.) Although occasionally my eggs go rotten and have effects which are not so much good to eat, as end up being sour, or giving one indigestion. (I am saying this metaphorically of course.) Some eggs are bad, or can go bad over time.Anyways, I was kinda curious who else might use this or a similar technique. If you use Easter Eggs then how do you do so? How do you classify them, place them so they can be discovered, attach them to the storyline, adventure, game, or to other things, what kinds of advantages do your eggs offer, do your eggs ever go bad, what effects do your eggs have, how well are they hidden, do your players like discovering them? Came you name some of your eggs or describe what they do? What is their relationship to other kinds of treasure, to magic, to secrets, clues, and hidden advantages in your game or world?Anything else you wanna talk about regarding your Easter Eggs and how you use them, go right ahead.</blockquote>

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