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Message: <blockquote data-quote="carpedavid" data-source="post: 1217663" data-attributes="member: 6971">more books...Here are a few more books that you could probably adapt quite easily for your own purposes...[name]'s Fully Illustrated Guide to the Dissection and Preservation of Magical Beastsby ????Language: CommonFormat: Hide-bound, saddle-stitched quartos; gilded parchment leaves; gold leaf, hand-tooled cover; 34 volumes; 8596 pp.Cost/Value: 215,000 gp[name]'s Fully Illustrated Guide to the Dissection and Preservation of Magical Beasts is, as the title suggests, a work with a strongly necromantic flavor. It contains a complete discussion of the habitat, ecology, behavior, physiology, and supernatural abilities of magical beasts in addition to very detailed and graphic anatomic diagrams and dissection instructions.It is widely considered to be both the authoritative work on the subject of magical beasts and an example of what happens when powerful necromancers have too much time on their hands.The work is published in 34 hide-bound volumes (a different creature's hide for each volume) with gilded pages, full color illustrations, and very tiny print.Replace [name] in the title of the book with a name appropriate for the race that created it. Suggestions: Illixis for a mind flayer, Neleashun for a drow, or Roan for a ghoul.Building a Better Golemby Kurash StonecutterLanguage: DwarvenFormat: Hide-bound, ring-bound folio; pounded tin leaves; embossed cover; 346 pp.Cost/Value: 5,600 gpBuilding a Better Golem is a practical guide to the creation of unusual and exquisite constructs. Written by a dwarven cleric, it contains construct-enhancing spells, rituals for imbuing constructs with specific powers, and instructions for construct repair.Perhaps the ghouls adapted the instructions in this book to build their skeletal siege engines?Illustratum Diabolisby Brom the MadLanguage: InfernalFormat: Flesh-bound, hand-stitched duodecimo; gilded velum leaves; platinum leaf-embossed cover; 516 ppCost/Value: 12,500 gp Illustratum Diabolis is a treatise on the infernal hierarchies. It details the political hierarchy, taxonomy, and ecology of demons and devils. It contains a primer on infernal etiquette (including proper bribery techniques), a section on the intricacies of infernal law, and a very thick chapter on how to haggle with fiends without inadvertently losing your immortal soul.Careful study of this volume gives the reader a +2 bonus to Bluff, Diplomacy, and Intimidate checks when dealing with members of the infernal hierarchy.Adventurous souls may make use of the Greater Planar Binding spell contained within.I'm not sure why the ghouls would have this, though they certainly may have intended to make use of it at some point.</blockquote>

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