Agent 13 Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Um' date=' I don't get that one.[/quote'] Raskolnikov is the main character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamePhil Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Raskolnikov is the main character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Excellent, thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamePhil Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Oscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game I assumed it was a pure Sesame Street joke' date=' myself.[/quote'] Yeah, what's really sad is that he told me about that once, and I understood then. Getting old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NestorDRod Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Well, the only one of any significance that I can recall actually got re-used in Susano's original Kazei 5 campaign. The team's medtech was named Temple. I'll wait here until someone gets it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamePhil Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Well, the only one of any significance that I can recall actually got re-used in Susano's original Kazei 5 campaign. The team's medtech was named Temple. I'll wait here until someone gets it... Benjamin Church, first Surgeon General of the Continental Army? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrosshairCollie Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Well, the only one of any significance that I can recall actually got re-used in Susano's original Kazei 5 campaign. The team's medtech was named Temple. I'll wait here until someone gets it... Church from Red vs. Blue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamePhil Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Church from Red vs. Blue? Well, is that really obscure, though? Yes, yes it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NestorDRod Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Nope, but you guys are on the right track. It does require a thesaurus... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent 13 Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Well, the only one of any significance that I can recall actually got re-used in Susano's original Kazei 5 campaign. The team's medtech was named Temple. I'll wait here until someone gets it... Star Trek's Nurse Chapel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Star Trek's Nurse Chapel? You sir, get the rep. Welcome to the Ascended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Oh, and making Temple cry was as sure-fire way to win yourself a beat-down in the original game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NestorDRod Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Oh' date=' and making Temple cry was as sure-fire way to win yourself a beat-down in the original game.[/quote'] Hey, no fair! Well then again, you're better at handing out the rep. And Jagger didn't make her cry. That's his story and he's sticking to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamePhil Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Star Trek's Nurse Chapel? I thought we were going for obscure, here. Ah well. Edit: Sorry, tired when I wrote that and it sounds testy. If the tone of voice could be conveyed by text it would sound better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Oscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game I assumed it was a pure Sesame Street joke' date=' myself.[/quote'] The people behind Sesame Street are obviously hoping not just to help children learn to read (and count, etc.) but to instill in them a lifelong love of learning and reading. Even Big Bird and Kermit the Frog can't win them all... I wonder if the Muppeteer behind "The Count" was aware of the folklore about vampires obsessively counting things... Lucius Alexander Four thousand one hundred fifty nine Palindromedary Taglines! BOOM! BwaHaHaHaHaHa! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game I thought we were going for obscure, here. Ah well. Edit: Sorry, tired when I wrote that and it sounds testy. If the tone of voice could be conveyed by text it would sound better. *shrug* I don't plant obscure stuff into my games (much), and I doesn't seem any more obscure than someone in a Vampire Larp playing The Count from Sesame Street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamePhil Posted January 26, 2008 Report Share Posted January 26, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game *shrug* I don't plant obscure stuff into my games (much)' date=' and I doesn't seem any more obscure than someone in a Vampire Larp playing The Count from Sesame Street.[/quote'] No reason you should. But I had discounted her because it seemed too obvious. Sometimes things just get overthought. Like I said, oh, well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Alongside "Crom and Pun-is-meant," it made my head hurt. Kudos for an excellent bit of word-play. Edit: I see Agent 13 revealed all, all ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrosshairCollie Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Re: Most Oscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game The people behind Sesame Street are obviously hoping not just to help children learn to read (and count' date=' etc.) but to instill in them a lifelong love of learning and reading. Even Big Bird and Kermit the Frog can't win them all...[/quote'] Do I detect a rebuke? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opal Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game My Champions campaign has a few obscure references. I pulled some names of special materials more obscure than the usual adamantium: Radium-X, trimagnesite. I also used an obscure book for a bunch of wierd stuff -shiriwayak, uan-irek, ezraq, vellaqqa - including a whole campaing "Tales from the Dark Wheel." The rule of the Dark Wheele was, as one player put it, 'steal shamelessly.' But most of the references were not that obscure. Every one of my campaigns has an evil organization called The Red Death, too. They don't always come up as major antagonists, but they're out there somewhere. It's not a direct Poe reference, and not obscure if you've been gaming a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmadanNaBriona Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game My Champions campaign has a few obscure references. I pulled some names of special materials more obscure than the usual adamantium: Radium-X, trimagnesite. I also used an obscure book for a bunch of wierd stuff -shiriwayak, uan-irek, ezraq, vellaqqa - including a whole campaing "Tales from the Dark Wheel." The rule of the Dark Wheele was, as one player put it, 'steal shamelessly.' But most of the references were not that obscure. Every one of my campaigns has an evil organization called The Red Death, too. They don't always come up as major antagonists, but they're out there somewhere. It's not a direct Poe reference, and not obscure if you've been gaming a long time. On the topic of direct theft from uncommon sources, many versions of the Red Redemption from the Lone Sloane comics have shown up in various parts of my personal gaming multiverse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Logue Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game In Deadlands I use a lot of name references. In one story, the PCs rescued a muckraker named "Diamond" Neal Johnson. In another campaign, the PCs were hired on as troubleshooters for the Tombstone Epitaph. they worked directly for an editor named Wolf Muldoon who had a partner named Denise Kelly. I called the campaign the E-Files. This weekend I'm running Deadlands and they'll be going through a town where the mayor's name is Cameron James. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game This weekend I'm running Deadlands and they'll be going through a town where the mayor's name is Cameron James. Does he have a "bug" problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Logue Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game Does he have a "bug" problem? LoL... You guessed it! Also, he's "the mayor o' the town!" (He's gotta start somewhere...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game LoL... You guessed it! Also' date=' he's "[b']the mayor o' the town![/b]" (He's gotta start somewhere...) Hey, I don't care if he's the king of the world, all I want to know is 'where they are.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Worldmaker Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game The players once were sent to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in a small town. They were met and given a tour by the mayor, whose name was Arthur Holmwood. They never got the reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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