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

[Shades of Eternity]

the way this thread has gone, seems thematically appropriate

 

[RealAlHazred]

Whomst'd've had an issue with wording should probably stay out of threads in general.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Nowadays, I'd probably be even more meta with the Egg of Coot (bringing this back to the topic). Make it a memetic hazard. The reason why people describe it in contradictory ways is because the information itself causes havoc in minds: hallucinations, confusion, psychosis, etc. No living creature can describe it, and if nonliving things are used to gather information, that just delays the effect -- as soon as you view the information from the drone's footage, you are yourself affected because it is the information itself that is harmful. For reference, check out "The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution" by Chris Cherniak, or any of David Langford's several stories featuring Basilisks: "BLIT", "comp.basilisk FAQ", "What Happened at Cambridge IV", and "Different Kinds of Darkness". In this case, the "person" referred to as the Egg of Coot could be an individual who has had a very drastic reaction to the infohazard; perhaps they even do have some special connection, but that just makes that individual a vector for the spread of the hazard (similar to the movie, "The Crazies").

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

You can see the Egg of Coot in this photo taken by a brave individual who is no longer with us. See it there, under her breast, just being as evil as can be. Disgusting.

 

[The Sigil]

Cool. I'm sure he's fine, and maybe he was around for usenet, too. But this was a random question that didn't have a source, and apparently it is from a youtube video.

When it comes to TTRPG history, I don't do youtube. We have excellent books and actual source documents. Call me old-fashioned, but I try to do historical research on TTRPGs from written sources and not from internet personalities, whether pretty old or pretty young.

ETA- to get this back on topic, I still do not know what this is about. I assume it's about the later references in the DA series of modules.

I always enjoy your well-researched threads, Snarf, and can appreciate that you would prefer to "go the primary source" as much as possible rather than get information from secondary sources like Mr Welch (I happen to be a big fan of his, but I'm not going to try to convince you to like him; different strokes for different folks). I would humbly suggest that there are some worthy nuggets of TTRPG history to be found on Youtube coming from "primary sources" so perhaps do not discount it entirely.

Interviews with some of Arneson and Gygax's original D&D players I find fascinating, for example - I found David Megarry's Dungeon! channel was a good place to start (here: David Megarry's Dungeon! ) but I have seen a number of interesting interviews with some of the oldest of old-timers over the years and I think even if the information comes in the form of oral history, the fact it's from primary sources makes it in my eyes as valuable as written history compiled later (the best sources are of course contemporaneous written sources).