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I was looking through some of the spells for a sorceror, and I started to look at Detect Thoughts, when I came across something a bit funny about it. The material component for Detect Thoughts is a copper piece!
Well, what's so funny about that??
A copper piece is akin to a penny.
"A penny for your thoughts?"
HAR HAR!
If this is already well-known, then keep your 'well, that's old news' business to yourself, pretentious hipster!
Has anyone else come across little things like this in their perusal of Pathfinder materials.
While not a pun, I think it's kind of funny that the casting component for grease is butter. Just something about a dude carrying butter to cast spells makes me laugh.
For Comprehend Languages, the components are soot and salt, which were commonly used to clean one's teeth in the late 1700's. So, brush your teeth and you can understand anyone!
no but now i going to stay up looking !! thanks Xp
Dot
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While not a pun, I think it's kind of funny that the casting component for grease is butter. Just something about a dude carrying butter to cast spells makes me laugh.
For Comprehend Languages, the components are soot and salt, which were commonly used to clean one's teeth in the late 1700's. So, brush your teeth and you can understand anyone!
I would've laughed harder had the material component for Comprehend Languages was a Q-tip. Get the wax out your ears!
Dot
I'm not sure what this means...
For Message, you need some copper wire. The same copper wire you'd use to attach two tin cans for a makeshift phone.
Lightning bolt = fur & glass rod.
Enlarge Person uses iron powder, which is a component in powder metallurgy.
While not a pun, I think it's kind of funny that the casting component for grease is butter. Just something about a dude carrying butter to cast spells makes me laugh.
For Comprehend Languages, the components are soot and salt, which were commonly used to clean one's teeth in the late 1700's. So, brush your teeth and you can understand anyone!
I would've laughed harder had the material component for Comprehend Languages was a Q-tip. Get the wax out your ears!
DotI'm not sure what this means...
dot= I have nothing to contribute to this conversation at this time, but I am interested and would like to be able to easily find it later.
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Lightning bolt = fur & glass rod.
Fur I guess is used to generate static?...the glass I'm not so sure.
I'm not so certain I see the connection.
Also, it doesn't have to be with material components, it could be any easter egg found in pathfinder! Maybe like a picture of a horde of zombies all wearing red shirts about to attack the iconic Cleric?
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Most material components are based on technological gags, when you cast scrying you are literally supposed to grab yourself a "specially treated" mirror, some wire, and some lemons – which is to say that you make a TV set to watch your target on and then power it with an archaic battery. When you cast see invisibility you literally blow talc all over the place – which of course reveals invisible foes. Casting lightning bolt requires you to generate a static charge with an amber rod and some fur, tongues requires that you build a little Tower of Babel, and of course fireball requires that you whip up some actual gunpowder.
The spell component for Silent Image is a bit of fleece: because an illusion spell pulls the wool over your eyes.
Written in the Words of Power section of ultimate magic
"if the PCs discover a scroll of elder cure, give the players the text of the elder cure word so they know exactly how the scroll works."
Maybe it was unintentional, but it seems funny that there practically is an elder scrolls reference.
Fur I guess is used to generate static?...the glass I'm not so sure.
An old-fashioned science example. Rub the glass rod with the fur (or silk), and the rod will carry a constant static discharge in the rod. Hence - lighting bolt analog for creating electricity. Link
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The spell component for Silent Image is a bit of fleece: because an illusion spell pulls the wool over your eyes.
I'm going to blow your mind!
What if I were to tell you that it may be a movie reference?!
Silent Image ---> Silent -> Silence
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fleece ---------> wool -----> Lamb
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Alarm is funny. It's just a bell with some wire. I can imagine the others ina party when they see a Wizard try and cast this.
"I'm going to cast a spell! Alarm!"
"Uh dude, you're just tying a bell to some string... I could do that!"
"But can you do that MAGICALLY?"
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Alarm is funny. It's just a bell with some wire. I can imagine the others ina party when they see a Wizard try and cast this.
"I'm going to cast a spell! Alarm!"
"Uh dude, you're just tying a bell to some string... I could do that!"
"But can you do that MAGICALLY?"
Yeah, I have thought that as well, heh. "I'm a WIZARD dammit! I do magic!"
An old-fashioned science example. Rub the glass rod with the fur (or silk), and the rod will carry a constant static discharge in the rod. Hence - lighting bolt analog for creating electricity. Link
You can use glass rubbed on silk, wool, or cotton; mica rubbed on cloth; asbestos rubbed on cloth or paper; or a stick of sealing wax rubbed on wool to produce a positive static charge.
You can use hard rubber rubbed on wool; a block of sulfer rubbed on wool or fur; most kinds of rubber rubbed on cloth; sealing wax rubbed on silk, wool, or fur; mica rubbed on dry wool; or amber rubber on cloth to produce a negative static charge.
We get our word electric from the greek work for amber - elektron. Electric meant to be like amber, as I believe amber rubbed on various materials was the earliest recording method of an item that repelled other objects.
What if I were to tell you that it may be a movie reference?!
I'd wonder where they got the time machine from.
Gnoll Coward
Hee hee!
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The spell component for Silent Image is a bit of fleece: because an illusion spell pulls the wool over your eyes.I'm going to blow your mind!
What if I were to tell you that it may be a movie reference?!
Silent Image ---> Silent -> Silence
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fleece ---------> wool -----> Lamb
Pretty sure the components for Silent Image haven't changed since 1E AD&D which pretty significantly predates Silence of the Lambs.
Pretty sure the components for Silent Image haven't changed since 1E AD&D which pretty significantly predates Silence of the Lambs.The spell component for Silent Image is a bit of fleece: because an illusion spell pulls the wool over your eyes.I'm going to blow your mind!
What if I were to tell you that it may be a movie reference?!
Silent Image ---> Silent -> Silence
-------------------------------> of the
fleece ---------> wool -----> Lamb
GREAT SCOTT, MARTY!!!
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My favorite Easter Egg is the picture for the Halfling Jinxer in Halflings of Golarion (pg 26, IIRC).
The halfling in that picture is a clear homage to Ronnie James Dio. That was the picture that convinced me to play a halfling bard.
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I am sure there are others. There is a naval comander in Varisia named Keyra Palen turned fiesty political leader. Not sure if it was intentional but If I ever have to play her as a GM she will speaking in my best Sara Palin impression. I thought Andoran's Lady Liberty and Eagles running around was obvious perhaps so obvious to not be hidden enough to count as an easter egg.
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I'm glad you're discovering the "Easter eggs" among the material component requirements left by Gary Gygax from 1st Ed AD&D. He was a brilliant, funny and well-read man...a genius in my opinion. It was always a joy to read and re-read the Players Handbook and DMG as I'd always seem to find some new to learn from him.
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The greatest description of material/somatic components ever is from Hideous Laughter. You throw tiny tarts at the target of the spell while waving a feather in the air. Because of this, I'm not quite sure it's a magical spell at all. I think the bout of hideous laughter is just the natural result of being "attacked" by someone throwing tiny little pies at you and waving a feather around like a moron.
The material component for "Ill Omen" is hairs from a black cat IE the whole superstition of having bad luck from a black cat crossing your path.
One of the material components for "Gentle Repose" is a copper piece for each of the eyes the corpse has. Referring to the old tradition of putting coins on the eyes of the deceased so they can pay the ferryman on the river of Styx (if I remember correctly).
The cr 13 Carnivorous Blob looks EXACTLY like the blob from the 1988 version of "The Blob". Also, it has a vulnerability to cold (which is how they killed it in the movie), and last but not least the description of said monster "While sages debate whether the first carnivorous blobs were created by a mad wizard, formed in foul fleshwarping vats in some sinister city, or traveled to this world trapped in the core of a meteor," Hilarious, because in the movie it crashes on earth from a meteor. Gotta love references to old horror movies.