What's the worst pun, inside joke or easter egg you've found in a game?

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It's Swearsday morning and I want some silly fun.
Does it count if it was my own adventure and not published?
I personally liked a lot my headbanging dwarfs in a fantasy tavern. Due to lack of long hair, they were waving their beards.
For a short time, the metal dwarves that wave their beards even was kinda popular in our extended group of GMs:shade:.
 
I can't think of any in print off hand, probably because I roll my eyes and forget it, but in a video game?

Dragon Age 1: A tree who rhymed his lines. A Poet Tree. Ugh.
 
Sure, why not. Own your sins.

A few from my own efforts -
  • Ono-Hentai corporation
  • Leyland-Futanari corporation
  • Aferas - an alien species. Try frigging with google translate (may not work now; originally Google translate to Spanish for 'Cling On').
  • Cuore d'Oro - a spaceship. Try frigging with google translate.
  • Diaprobe - a diagnostic device derived from recovered precursor technology. Nano sensors can tell a lot about the subject by touching a mucous membrane. Unfortunately it induces extreme nausea when used orally or nasally on humans.
  • Flechette pistol (needle gun): 'Far more clumsy and random than a blaster.'
 
In the Hero System module Kingdom of Champions, (superheroes in Britain) one of the sample scenarios mentions a coastal town named Dunwich which got taken by the tides years ago. The text says, "Upon hearing the name of Dunwich, Investigators must make a Mythos Knowledge roll. If successful, they realize they are in the wrong game, and immediately lose 6d10 SAN."

JG
 
Many years ago, the British magazine Adventurer featured a series about a typical fantasy city called Scatophagium. I've always wondered if this was a pun or a very unfortunate coincidence (yes, this kind of thing does happen) but if you translate this name from Greek, you basically get "shit-eater". And I've always wondered if somebody else had realized that...
 
In GURPS Traveller you are told that if you want to keep the possibility of dying in char gen, you should roll a d6 after having created your character. On 1-2 you tear up the sheet and create another character.
OTOH, if you do that in front of witnesses, you get for free the Iron Man perk. It does nothing but adding+1 to your game-related reaction rolls that determine the other players' reaction to you.
Right:grin:?
 
I remember a C&C scenario, Lion In The Ropes, had several NPCs named after characters from WKRP In Cincinatti. The GM running us through it didn't understand why we kept laughing every time we met one.
 
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Best, not worst, although taste...

I once read about this Oriental adventure where the PCs were asked to track down and recover an ogre's heart by someone who borrowed but never returned it.

The had to find the loaner of the oni heart.
 
A friend of mine once wrote up a Runequest cult of Indlas Somer, which appeared in Different Worlds.
There's also the Cult of Gestetner by Greg Costikyan (who I always mis-attribute Indlas Somer to...)

Look at anything Greg Costikyan was involved with for a good chance of puns and other humor...

Back in the day I actually got tired of his humor intruding on so many things.
 
I've threatened one of my fellow GMs that if he runs RuneQuest I'll create a cigar-chomping, bison-riding, Storm Bull worshiping, ill-tempered duck named H'ward of Robere and his three nephews, Hugh, Dugh, and Lugh.
There's no end of duck jokes when it comes to RuneQuest...

Jokes about duck l'orange sauce. Quack-fu. Hueymakt, Ty Kora Quack, Quaccodemon. And more...

On a different note, we had a Newtling named Geico Mandersal...
 
Many years ago, the British magazine Adventurer featured a series about a typical fantasy city called Scatophagium. I've always wondered if this was a pun or a very unfortunate coincidence (yes, this kind of thing does happen) but if you translate this name from Greek, you basically get "shit-eater". And I've always wondered if somebody else had realized that...

One time playing City of Heroes I saw this one guy with the handle "The Gynophagist."

JG
 
The old Fighting Fantasy choose-your-own-adventure books were full of them. The three I remember were...

... the bad guy of Crown of Kings disguised himself as a harmless old man named Farren Wyde.
... One of the regions in Masks of Mayhem being named Pikestaff Plain (from the idiom "plain as a pikestaff").
... In Deathmoor you encounter two shady proto-plumber brothers named Oiram and Igiul.
 
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Well, it's not a pun, and I'm not sure if it counts as an inside joke or Easter egg, but I was pretty proud when I set up a situation such that, when my players explained what they wanted to do, I was able to respond, "So your plan is to save the dragon from the evil princess?"
 
Well, it's not a pun, and I'm not sure if it counts as an inside joke or Easter egg, but I was pretty proud when I set up a situation such that, when my players explained what they wanted to do, I was able to respond, "So your plan is to save the dragon from the evil princess?"
that's the initial set up for Blue Moon Rising. Initially the prince is supposed to rescue the princess from the dragon, but he and the dragon start talking and get along well, so they decide to leave the princess behind. she had other ideas about that of course, and hijinx ensue
 
Warhammer lore has one planet in the Domain of Ultramar called Prandium which was devoured by the Tyranids. The word is Latin for "lunch".

WotC's Star Wars Revised book has the combat rules for disarming an opponent on the same page as a photo of Anakin after his fight with Count Dooku on Geonosis (AotC). He is definitely "dis-armed".
 
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