Help me create an Arcane Library

[Bloodsparrow]

I think I may have suggested some of these before but...

"Plant Communities of the Upper Midlands"
by Treblem of the Green Sticks

"To Serve The Illathid"
Author Unknown
(... It's a cookbook!)

"Critter Bits and Magical Recipes:
A Guide to powerful and alternative components for the Adventurer Who Isn't Afraid to Mutilate a Corpse!"
by Boz the Scribe
((This one is in honor of an actual thread here on the boards))

"Keep the Tip"
An informative but strangely lighthearted treatise on lesser undead.
by Morgan Leeby

"Observations on Lycanthropy"
by Jeal Garnyea

"Fungus Among Us"
Being a collection of anicdotes of encounters with intellegent fungoid creatures.
by Mesh'el Murkler

"I Could Use a Hand Here: An Autobiography"
by Bigby

"The Big Book of Going To Hell"
Various Authors

"Ethel the Ardvark Goes Quantaty Surveying"
by Michael Ellis

"Book of Common Birds"
by J. Wuster Jute

 

[Sejs]

Morrowind had quite a large number of books in-game, with a couple pages of text each. Some gave you a point in a skill that was related to the story. Neat system, great game. Anyway - a few book titles blatantly stolen from Morrowind, leaving out the ones that only really make sense in the context of the game world:

A Dance in Fire, Chapter 1 - 7
A Fair Warning
A Game at Dinner
A Hypothetical Treachery
A Less Rude Song
ABCs for Barbarians
Aedra and Daedra
Ancestors and the Dunmer
Antecedants of Dwemer Law
Arcana Restored
Arkay the Enemy
Ashland Hymns
Azura and the Box
Biography of Barenziah v I - III
Biography of the Wolf Queen
Blasphemous Revenants
Boethiah's Pillow Book
Bone, Part 1 & 2
Book of Life and Service
Book of Rest and Endings
Breathing Water
Brief History of the Empire v 1 - 4
Capn's Guide to the Fishy Stick
Chance's Folly
Charwich-Koniinge, Volumes 1 - 4
Cherim's Heart of Anequina
Children of the Sky
Chimarvamidium
Chronicles of Nchuleft
Corpse Preparation v I - III
Darkest Darkness
Death Blow of Abernanit
Divine Metaphysics
Feyfolken I - III
Five Songs of King Wulfharth
For my Gods and Emperor
Fragment: On Artaeum
Frontier, Conquest
Galerion The Mystic
Grasping Fortune
Guylaine's Architecture
Hallgerd's Tale
Hanging Gardens
Hanin's Wake
Homilies of Blessed Almalexia
Honor Among Thieves
How Orsinium Passed to the Orcs
Ice and Chitin
Incident in Necrom
Invocation of Azura
Journal of Tarhiel
Kagouti Mating Habits
Last Scabbard of Akrash
Legions of the Dead
Lives of the Saints
Lord Jornibret's Last Dance
Master Zoaraym's Tale
Mixed Unit Tactics v1
Mysterious Akavir
Mystery of Talara, Parts 1-5
Mysticism
Nchunak's Fire and Faith
N'Gasta! Kvata! Kvakis!
Night Falls On Sentinel
No-h's Picture Book of Wood
Notes on Racial Phylogeny
On Oblivion
Ordo Legionis
Origin of the Mages Guild
Overview of Gods and Worship
Palla, Book I & II
Poison Song I-VII
Progress of Truth
Realizations of Acrobacy
Redoran Cooking Secrets
Reflections on Cult Worship
Response to Bero's Speech
Saryoni's Sermons
Secrets of Dwemer Animunculi
Silence
Sithis
Song of the Alchemists
Special Flora of Tamriel
Spirit of Nirn, God of Mortals
Spirit of the Daedra
Surfeit of Thieves
Tal Marog Ker's Researches
Tamrielic Lore
The Affairs of Wizards
The Alchemists Formulary
The Annotated Anuad
The Anticipations
The Arcturian Heresy
The Armorer's Challenge
The Art of War Magic
The Axe Man
The Black Arrow, Volume 1 & 2
The Black Glove
The Blue Book of Riddles
The Book of Daedra
The Book of Dawn and Dusk
The Brothers of Darkness
The Buying Game
The Cake and the Diamond
The Cantatas of Vivec
The Changed Ones
The Consolations of Prayer
The Doors of the Spirit
The Eastern Provinces
The Egg of Time
The Final Lesson
The Firmament
The Firsthold Revolt
The Five Far Stars
The Four Suitors of Benitah
The Horror of Castle Xyr
The House of Troubles
The Importance of Where
The Legendary Scourge
The Locked Room
The Lunar Lorkhan
The Lusty Argonian Maid
The Madness of Pelagius
The Marksmanship Lesson
The Monomyth
The Pig Children
The Pilgrim's Path
The Posting of the Hunt
The Prayers of Baranat
The Ransom of Zarek
The Real Barenziah v I-V
The Rear Guard
The Red Book of Riddles
The Ruins of Kemel-Ze
The Seed
The Third Door
The True Nature of Orcs
The True Noble's Code
The Vagaries of Magicka
The War of the First Council
The Warrior's Charge
The Waters of Oblivion
The Wolf Queen, Books I-VIII
The Wraith's Wedding Dowry
The Yellow Book of Riddles
Trap
Unnamed Book
Varieties of Faith...
Vernaccus and Bourlor
Widdershins
Words and Philosophy
Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi
Words of the Wind



... okay, uh... maybe that was more than a few. Anyway, hope some of those can prove useful.

 

[Fieari]

I am probably not very clear about this part. What I wanted to say (yes: I am the author of this online genrator), is that the book entitles to increase your skill ranks in the said skill. It's not a free bonus, like some kind of magical item: you must actually spend skill-points to increase your skill rank. As such the book is relatively useless and flavor only, except in campaigns where the DM requires that his / her players have an appropriate mentor / source of knowledge to acquire ranks in some skills (i.e.: if right now I want to acquire ranks in cooking or horitculture, I will have to actually learn it from someone else or some book; just having the time -skill points to spend- to learn is not enough).

Personally, what I'd do is make it so that those with the book can add the bonus to their score for the period of time they are actively reading it, using it as a reference. They wouldn't gain the ranks without spending points, but if researching a specific spell required X ranks in X skill, then they could use this book to help them research said spell. That sort of thing. It's not as if the character is memorizing the work...

 

[tarchon]

Personally, what I'd do is make it so that those with the book can add the bonus to their score for the period of time they are actively reading it, using it as a reference. They wouldn't gain the ranks without spending points, but if researching a specific spell required X ranks in X skill, then they could use this book to help them research said spell. That sort of thing. It's not as if the character is memorizing the work...

Oh, yeah, temporary circumstance bonus. That makes a lot of sense.