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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5988252" data-attributes="member: 4937">Books are such a hassle I'm thinking of setting my next game in a preliterate setting.  There is something innately game breaking about a book within a world that exists solely as words.  Each book is as large as the world itself.  However, the following books have showed up so far in the game:"One Hundred and Sixty-Eights Cunning Rites of the Sharpened Doors" - The sacred scriptures of Karophet, god of weapons and secrets.  Written in code, it contains instructions to the initiated on how to perform the rites and cermonies mandated by the god of traps.The following books were found in a foundry office:“Forging, Drawing, and Soldering Metal”“The Standard Bronze Compositions”“Elvesier’s Dictionary of Metallurgy and Metal Work”“Metal Bar Fabrication”“The Basic Guide to Electro-Plating”"Oskar’s Utilization of the True Metals” The following were found in the secret meeting hall of a Kelternist cultist:“The Truth of the Divine” by Gantro of Corval“Dare to be Free” by Acrocos of Sarman’“The Confessions of Keltern the Leper” by Keltern the Leper“Who made the maker?” by Zhan"Cosmic Theology vols 1-V" by Alapros the Lame Tongue.  "‘Rage Against the Masters” by Calocos the Black“Dictionary of Dead Gods” by Akmed the Accursed“Better By Far Silence” by Totopek the Mad.  "Unnamed Cults” by Tincture"Unrepentant Ouroboros" by HolotorPosistion of any of several of those will get you burned at the stake as a heretic in many locales.In the loft apartment of a murdered austistic machinist:The Geometry Governing Gears, a Primer – By Williax of IotiniaModern Principles of Mill Construction – By Jerrod of SelinicaSheering Stresses in Materials under Practical Usage – By Froto ThrushbeardThe Lost Secrets of Wire Drawing, Excavations in Kroton – By Gilder the Dust SageA Practical Guide to Couplings – By Anaxion the YoungerThe Smelter’s Handbook - Klain HammerhandTechniques for the Decambering of Copper, New Approaches – By Bert Shimmer of SelinicaThe Lore of the True Metals, Secrets of the Dwarves Revealed and Translations from the Original Dwarf – By Glato of TalerngaThe Ordering of the Creation, by Naban of NicompolisThat last one has a quotation:Appearing as a plotpoint and a subgoal of one of the quests was, "The Unopenable Tome of Menes the Third’".  The party has just recently penetrated the author's tomb.  The book was vandalized but a considerable portion was actually written on the walls of the tomb.  Along the way they found:"A Primer On Overcoming Abjurations" – Sicellus BlackThat one was actually worth a write up:The spell book of an apprentice necromancer with the following spells inside:The first page has a sepia snake sigil trap.Along with that were three invaluable tomes of magic:"Conjuring With Fire" by Tolston the YoungerDravit the Pestiliant’s "The Question of Vivamancy""The drafting of protective runes" by Halias of the Many Colors. Unfortunately, the players took insufficient interest in the books, meaning I never needed to do a write up on them. There was also a book on undertaking:"Burial Customs Along the Sea of Storms" by Itelmus of Tethyr</blockquote>

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