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<blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 5132194" data-attributes="member: 17691"><p>I'm not complaining or throwing blame around; just explaining something that seems a bit odd to me.</p><p></p><p>I feel your pain; at least the designers bothered to assign some value to the books. I can't count the number of times I've read room descriptions in published modules that describes wall-to-wall bookshelves with hundreds or thousands of tomes without even postulating that they might be worth something beyond mere colorful room decor. Handwritten and illuminated books were usually luxuries that only the wealthy could afford to purchase. Few privately-owned medieval period book collections included more than a handful or more tomes.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps the bookshelves are relatively small or are more like cabinets or large lecterns and their being "full" merely means 5-7 books in all.</p><p></p><p>If a lonely necromancer succeeds in luring a lady friend into his dank crypt past his shambling undead servants, the last thing he'd want is for her to feel less than cozy in his bed. Skull motifs are <strong>so</strong> tacky and just scream "four-hundred-year-old-virgin". <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />That'd explain why Rolth wasn't in his lair; the Acadamae library overdue book department bounty hunters got him!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ambrus, post: 5132194, member: 17691"] I'm not complaining or throwing blame around; just explaining something that seems a bit odd to me. I feel your pain; at least the designers bothered to assign some value to the books. I can't count the number of times I've read room descriptions in published modules that describes wall-to-wall bookshelves with hundreds or thousands of tomes without even postulating that they might be worth something beyond mere colorful room decor. Handwritten and illuminated books were usually luxuries that only the wealthy could afford to purchase. Few privately-owned medieval period book collections included more than a handful or more tomes. Perhaps the bookshelves are relatively small or are more like cabinets or large lecterns and their being "full" merely means 5-7 books in all. If a lonely necromancer succeeds in luring a lady friend into his dank crypt past his shambling undead servants, the last thing he'd want is for her to feel less than cozy in his bed. Skull motifs are [B]so[/B] tacky and just scream "four-hundred-year-old-virgin". :pThat'd explain why Rolth wasn't in his lair; the Acadamae library overdue book department bounty hunters got him! [/QUOTE]
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