D&D General Whom has used the Egg of Coot?

[Ralif Redhammer]

I wanted to use the Egg of Coot, but in my last Greyhawk campaign (which was a quasi-sandbox campaign) the PCs never went there.

 

[TigerDude]

When to Use “Who” vs. “Whom”

Who is used to refer to the subject of a sentence or clause (the person performing an action). Whom is used to refer to the…

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• Who is used to refer to the subject of a sentence or clause (the person performing an action). Whom is used to refer to the object of a verb or preposition (the person being affected by an action).
• Who and whom are both pronouns. Who is a subject pronoun (like I, he, she, we, and they), whereas whom is an object pronoun (like me, him, her, us, and them).
• Try this simple trick when in doubt: If you can replace the word with he or she, use who. If you can replace it with him or her, use whom.

 

[Seramus]

To he/she it may concern.
To him/her it may concern.
Both feel weird.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I guess the way I see it, Welch has been an upstanding, contributing member of our community and hobby for two whole decades and I think it's great that he's found a way to reach "the kids" through youtube and don't understand the hostility to the medium.

No one is saying otherwise. But he is not sufficiently well known to quote without explanation and expect people to know what you are talking about.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

No one is saying otherwise. But he is not sufficiently well known to quote without explanation and expect people to know what you are talking about.

Well, I am hopeful the @The Glen writes something (either on this thread ... which seems to be getting sidetracked) or in a new thread about the Egg of Coot- either the original or the Mystara version!

I'm always up for a conversation about the old stuff - and I'd love to hear what he has to say about the Egg of Coot.

(Personally, I prefer the Egg of Coot in its incarnation as an "off-screen" big bad, but reasonable minds can differ on this.)

 

[GuyBoy]

I used the “First Fantasy Campaign” as my Second Fantasy Campaign (!) after an initial homebrew. I think I was about 16-ish, so it would be around 1979 I guess.
The Egg of Coot was an off-screen big baddie, and never figured directly. Players did meet the Earl of Vestfold though, and cleansed the Temple of the Frog.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

Whelp, apparently things I'm is no Longer Allowed to do in at enworld: Bring up Mr. Welch

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Now that that is said, I've had a real soft spot for Blackmoor, and love the weird technology of the place, so my answer is simple: Run the DA Trilogy (including potentially an alliance with the beagle) and then get into an epic fight with the egg of Coots armies with your new toys and allies.

If it happens to feel suspiciously like Star Wars/Flash Gordon in Blackoor, so be it.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Whelp, apparently things I'm is no Longer Allowed to do in at enworld: Bring up Mr. Welch

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Now that that is said, I've had a real soft spot for Blackmoor, and love the weird technology of the place, so my answer is simple: Run the DA Trilogy (including potentially an alliance with the beagle) and then get into an epic fight with the egg of Coots armies with your new toys and allies.

If it happens to feel suspiciously like Star Wars/Flash Gordon in Blackoor, so be it.

Post what you want- but your original post was very confusing. To me, at least.

By "Blackmoor" you're talking about running the DA trilogy with ... B/X (OSR, BECMI, RC ... maybe OD&D?) rules? Sounds fun. I'm not a big fan of the DA modules, but I do like the gestalt, and I agree that it's fun to bring in a Flash Gordon feel.

Back in the day, I always preferred having the Egg of Coot to always be off-screen. The players would defeat his minions, his lackeys, his plans, but the Egg of Coot, like evil itself, would remain tantalizingly out of their reach.

 

[Seramus]

everything from arguments regarding its name (EGG = Gygax to Egg = Gregg)

There's a post about that on these very forums! To spare a click:

"Oops!

I forgot to post one that is rather glaring.

According to Dave Arneson the "Egg of Coot" was created from the name "Gregg Scott," the chap who ran the MicroArmor casting company some years back. Gregg dismissed fantasy games as childish and claimed wargaming was "manly."

Coot indeed!

Heh,
Gary"

 

[RealAlHazred]

In my never-run planning for a Blackmoor campaign, I was going to have the Egg of Coot being a space-warp that had some sort of sentience -- not understandable to humans, but it acted with volition ("insane" acts, but still acts). And the "person" referred to as the Egg of Coot was an older human male, not from Blackmoor but from another Prime Material Plane. He was mad from his experiences "in" the actual Egg, and claimed to have created everything as a game; yes, it was going to be EGG. Anyway, EGG and the Egg were going to be a weird gestalt being, a psionic combination of both.