History ShoutOut / DungeonsTheDragoning

* The story before chapter three is the opening scene of [[Jojo'sBizarreAdventure Stardust Crusaders]].

* The introductory text mentions [[GameOfThrones the Throne of Blades]].

** With parts played by [[CiaphasCain Ciaphas Cain, Jurgen, and the members of the 597th.]] Funnily, Cain is an Admiral instead of a Commissar here; in the books, he notes various times a distaste for space battles, which add a third dimension to have to worry about.

* The Prometheans are described as [[Music/TheProtomen "perfect men, unbeatable machines, designed to destroy every evil standing between their people and freedom"]].

* The Paragon powers are [[{{Mulan}} Swift as the Coursing River,]] [[EarWorm Force of a Great Typhoon,]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Strength of a Raging Fire]] and [[TrainingMontage Mysterious as the Dark Side of the Moon]].

**** There's a Tiefling called 'Petticoat' in that race's sample hero section, who is not only named after a piece of clothing and is high society, but bears a strong resemblance to the Demon Sisters.

* [[HalfLife We don't go to Pandemonium any more.]] It even has a city called Ravenholm.

** Likewise the sample image for the Human race is [[MassEffect Male!Shep]].

* The most recent version makes the Eldar's standard clothing [[MassEffect air-tight suits with opaque visors, along with attachment to their home ships.]]
** There's a good deal of MassEffect references throughout the book. The war between Eladrin and Humans is a direct reference to the Relay 314 Incident, Mention of "The Reapers", The Portal Relays, Eladrin pilgrimages, The fall of the Eladrin which details a few things like migrant fleets, the Council. There's probably even more then this.

* One story excerpt is a ''{{Slayers}}'' reference with the SerialNumbersFiledOff.

* One of the stories has a character with a [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} bolter]] shouting [[ArmyOfDarkness THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK!]]

* The Modrons of [[{{Planescape}} Mechanus]] are now Necrons, and the plane itself resembles [[MagicTheGathering Phyrexia]].

* On the more obscure side of references, in possible adventure hooks for the crystal sphere Arcadia, it's mentioned that the farm animals could be positioned to form logic gates and the whole planet might be a computer. This is a double-reference to ''HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', and a legendary thread on [[ImageBoards /tg/]], where somebody suggested that since Necromancers can give their undead creations simple commands, it could be possible to make an undead-powered computer, which posters nicknamed "Deep Rot" (itself a reference to [=HG2G=]).

* The Daemonhost Sin Assets are a reference to the demonic classifications of DragonAgeOrigins.

* [[ThatMitchellAndWebbLook Praise Vectron!]]

* One of the settings - Carceri - is one big ''{{STALKER}}'' ShoutOut, with a heaping of OutlawStar. The head honcho at the closest thing to a main city there is called Sidorovich. The mysterious "Shipyard X-18" is an installation run by "the government", protected by pirates, and tasked with designing ships that can penetrate deeper into Carceri's deepest layers using a unique navigation system. It even has the [[LiteralGenie Wish Granter]] as an adventure hook!

** The sample [[BadassAutomaton Promethean]] is [[GhostInTheShell The Major]]

* The beginning of the introduction is an altered version of Andrew Ryan's famous speech from ''{{Bioshock}}''

* Book 2's intermissions are basically one long homage to TheWrathOfKahn.

* The excerpt at the end of Chapter 14 is the "Get Three Coffins Ready" scene from AFistfulOfDollars.

* In the new book, there is a gun kata restriction that requires that you make the attack with a pistol. It's called the [[MetalGearSolid Ocelot's Roar]].

* The excerpt before chapter 9 is a reference to the final episode of CowboyBebop.

** As well as the bizarre world-computers made in games like ''DwarfFortress'' and ''{{Minecraft}}''.

* The example of a "typical game" has characters from various anime, including [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]], who thinks tabletop games are like ''WorldOfWarcraft''.

**** There's a Tiefling called 'Petticoat' in that race's sample hero section, who is not only named after a piece of clothing, but bears a strong resemblance to the Demon Sisters.

**** There's a sample Tiefling named Petticoat who is described as being a masterful planner, has cunningly disguised weapons, is a master assassin, and-as said before-is named after a piece of clothing. Kneesocks, is that you?