Fantasy book names & descriptions

[Morrus]

The Compendium Of Infernal Foods & Preparation By Bain The Illuminated
The Small Handbook Of Evocation And Altruism. This huge, slim manual is indigo in colour.
Dori The Gilded's Elegant Folio Of Noxious Gems. This huge, slim journal is red in colour.
Minerals And Enigmas: A Mecum By Bruein The Onymatic. This small, crumbling manual is blue in colour.
A Codex Of Divinity By Fili The Wonderful. This diminutive, faded guide is indigo in colour.

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And what else can I add to make those descriptions a bit better?

 

[Hand of Evil]

I like it!

Mmmm, Fiin and Kiin ??? - seems too close.
libram or is that Librium? spelling (may be a cross the pond thing)?
Add omnibus and things like hard back or soft back to description.
Not one random book on Heraldry!

• Chaos And Thaumaturgy: A Journal By Fiin The Eldritch. Yellow ribbons are used to mark pages throughout this illustrated libram.
• A Doctrine Of Hexes By Banor The Monstrous. The cover of this folio indicates that it was edited by Biri Goldjaw.
• Kiin The Forgotten's Alabaster Handbook Of Boundless Summoning. Blue ribbons are used to mark pages throughout this illustrated compilation.
• The Shields Lexicon. This codex contains a foreword by Kinor Blackhold.
• The Small Lexicon Of Summoning And Thaumaturgy. The cover of this encyclopedia indicates that it was edited by Fifur Stormquarry.
• Transmutation And Sorcery: A Tome By Bifur The Accursed. This huge, well-preserved doctrine is red in colour.
• The Lexicon Of Insidious Shields By Brueli The Solar. This libram contains a foreword by Babur Whiteshield.
• The Small Compendium Of Rituals And Ornaments. The cover of this journal indicates that it was edited by Bain Ironfoot.
• The Encyclopedia Of Trifold Darkness By Dwanor The Dangerous. This fine, ancient folio is violet in colour.
• The Enigmas Tome. This compendium contains a foreword by Balin Deepsmith.

 

[Morrus]

Heraldry! Doh! How could I forget that! Added!

 

[Morrus]

I've expanded it a bit! I really want to read Earl Aghi The Noxious's Forlorn Doctrine Of Celestial Unicorns!

A Manuscript Of Weapons By Tholin The Onymatic. The cover of this weighty libram indicates that it was edited by Nonor Redmine.

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The Gargantuan Creed Of Devils And Magics. Artwork by the famous Gimnor Rockfist decorates the cover of this bejewelled doctrine.

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The Conjuration Tome. The cover of this well-preserved manual is burnished with steel.

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Earl Aghi The Noxious's Forlorn Doctrine Of Celestial Unicorns. The pages of this leather-bound lexicon are lined with grey rectangles.

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The Light Doctrine. The cover of this illustrated journal is dominated by an illustration of a devil.

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The Encyclopedia Of Great Schizoid Insanity By Kellein The White. A adamantium clasp holds this faded lexicon closed.

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Enigmas And Snakes: A Manual By Dezhe The Accursed. Grey ribbons are used to mark pages throughout this slim lexicon.

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A Manual Of Summoning By Thrari The Luminous. This large, leather-bound manuscript is grey in colour.

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Fili The Lost's Wonderful Tome Of Magnificent Fishing. The pages of this ancient folio are lined with brown hexagons.

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The Summoning Manuscript. Iron rivets punctuate the cover of this illustrated indigo encyclopedia.

 

[dm4hire]

The generator seems to know my twisted mind because it generated this for me:

The Guide Of Obscene Conjuration By Duke Rockfist The Hallowed. Artwork by the famous Bruebur Broadbreaker decorates the cover of this ancient doctrine.

 

[Ketherian]

Cool generator.
But, if it's medieval in nature - there should be scrolls, tracts, palimpsest, and pamphlets.
The Manual Of Luminous Illusion By Ba'el The Inscrutable. There are clearly pages missing from this leather-bound white mecum.
What's a mecum? It's latin for "with" Were you thinking of a vade mecum (a manual)?

Other additions: More than one authors (showing its a compilatorion), medium of the pages, the copy quality, and perhaps either a page-count and/or a volume count.

Describing the paper, its edges, and the level of illustration (just first letters of chapters, a few images/maps, etc) would be nice.

I love this idea.
Every time I have to generate a list of books, I end up doing it manually; and most times that I've gone beyond just a title it's been a very long and drawn out process. Having a generator to start from would have made the whole job a lot more fun.

 

[RangerWickett]

I think I'm going to create a whole library of books, and just drop them in my party's lap to see what they do with them. I love the generator.

 

[Hand of Evil]

a value would be interesting, a whole treasure could be had with a rare book

 

[Morrus]

a value would be interesting, a whole treasure could be had with a rare book

Like just a straight dice roll? 1d100x10 or something?

 

[Morrus]

Couple of tweaks:

1) Female equivalents of the noble and religious titles
2) New type of book referencing dungeon names (using a dungeon name generator) - e.g. "Escape from the Lost Caverns of Inscrutable Irony" or "Ecology of the Isle of Blood" or what-have-you.
3) Volume counts from time to time (Volume 3 of a set of 8, etc.)

I like the idea of the multiple authors, too. That will be an easy addition.



Discovering The Luminous Desert Of Terror By Baroness Thrabur Deeplock The Forlorn. A large hexagon dominates the cover of this embossed orange compendium.