RolandOfGilead
First Post
My idea is this:
A unique group of books created by a very powerful lich.
Each book is different,
one carved in bone
One penned in the blood of a vampire
One written on and of the plane of shadow
One tattood on the flesh of an evolved stone giant zombie
One black tome which can only be read on the negative material plane.
Each is actually an animated undead creature, and some are dangerous to any living possessor.
The book of bone, a large brass ring piercing the thigh bones of many creatures. Its secrets are held in carvings spanning the length of the bones. This book is much like an animated skeleton, and its owner can command any spell contained in the volume to rise up. Any tunring attempt that destroys this creature simply de-animates the book. It can be re-animated by any necromancer capable of casting animate dead at a cost of 4 HD.
Book of Bone (Small Undead)
HD: 4d12 (26 hp)
Move: 50' (undulates like a spider)
AC: 14 (+1 size, +2 dex, +1 Natural)
Attack/Grapple: +2 / +0
Attack: +4 slam (1d4)
Full attack: 4 slams +4 (1d4)
Special Defenses: DR 5/Bludgeoning + Magic
Str: 9 Dex: 14 Con: -- Int: 6 Wis: 10 Cha: 2
Contains spells Levels 1-2 in carvings on its 30 legs.
Book of Blood (Treat as small Vampire Spawn with 6 levels of sorceror and with gaseous form as only movement type) Contains spells levels 7-9 in its pages.
Libram of Dark secrets: This tome acts as though incorporeal, a shadow. Its pages can only be read in darkness with darkvision. Under light, it becomes an ivory hued but otherwise blank book whose pages, strangly, cannot be written on. Note: when no shadow is present, the book is corporeal, but ivory hued. An attempt to turn this book calls forth 1d4 shadows to defend the tome. Because of its partial incorporeality, consider it incorporeal to anyone other than the wielder. Its spells are 3-5th in level.
The zombified remains of a Stone giant comprise the fourth tome, considered by its creator to be something of a failure. Though the giant is spellstitched and mighty in its own right, a powerful cleric once wrested control of the beast from him for a short time. His tattoos make up spells of 3-6th level, though there are less in number than in the other tomes.
The last tome, The Bleak book, was written on the preserved flesh of a nightwalker, using the feather of an astral deva. For ink, the lich used primal positive energy, and then vieled the book in negative energy, such that the book can only be read on the negative energy plane, where the positive energy glows brightly. The book acts much like a wight. It can only be destroyed by taking it to the positive energy plane. As an extradimensional book, it contains all of the lich's spells, and is his most guarded possession next to his phylactery.
A unique group of books created by a very powerful lich.
Each book is different,
one carved in bone
One penned in the blood of a vampire
One written on and of the plane of shadow
One tattood on the flesh of an evolved stone giant zombie
One black tome which can only be read on the negative material plane.
Each is actually an animated undead creature, and some are dangerous to any living possessor.
The book of bone, a large brass ring piercing the thigh bones of many creatures. Its secrets are held in carvings spanning the length of the bones. This book is much like an animated skeleton, and its owner can command any spell contained in the volume to rise up. Any tunring attempt that destroys this creature simply de-animates the book. It can be re-animated by any necromancer capable of casting animate dead at a cost of 4 HD.
Book of Bone (Small Undead)
HD: 4d12 (26 hp)
Move: 50' (undulates like a spider)
AC: 14 (+1 size, +2 dex, +1 Natural)
Attack/Grapple: +2 / +0
Attack: +4 slam (1d4)
Full attack: 4 slams +4 (1d4)
Special Defenses: DR 5/Bludgeoning + Magic
Str: 9 Dex: 14 Con: -- Int: 6 Wis: 10 Cha: 2
Contains spells Levels 1-2 in carvings on its 30 legs.
Book of Blood (Treat as small Vampire Spawn with 6 levels of sorceror and with gaseous form as only movement type) Contains spells levels 7-9 in its pages.
Libram of Dark secrets: This tome acts as though incorporeal, a shadow. Its pages can only be read in darkness with darkvision. Under light, it becomes an ivory hued but otherwise blank book whose pages, strangly, cannot be written on. Note: when no shadow is present, the book is corporeal, but ivory hued. An attempt to turn this book calls forth 1d4 shadows to defend the tome. Because of its partial incorporeality, consider it incorporeal to anyone other than the wielder. Its spells are 3-5th in level.
The zombified remains of a Stone giant comprise the fourth tome, considered by its creator to be something of a failure. Though the giant is spellstitched and mighty in its own right, a powerful cleric once wrested control of the beast from him for a short time. His tattoos make up spells of 3-6th level, though there are less in number than in the other tomes.
The last tome, The Bleak book, was written on the preserved flesh of a nightwalker, using the feather of an astral deva. For ink, the lich used primal positive energy, and then vieled the book in negative energy, such that the book can only be read on the negative energy plane, where the positive energy glows brightly. The book acts much like a wight. It can only be destroyed by taking it to the positive energy plane. As an extradimensional book, it contains all of the lich's spells, and is his most guarded possession next to his phylactery.
