Stocking an in-game library - give me cool titles and authors from your game!

[Technomancer]

Check out the in game books from the Elder Scrolls CRPGs (Morrowind, Oblivion, etc).

Daggerfall books

Morrowind Books

Oblivion Books

EDIT-CURSE YOUR BLACK SOUL, FREEBFROST!!!

 

[Piratecat]

I love this site.

Thanks - keep em coming!

 

[PapersAndPaychecks]

"A Common-Orcish Dictionary", by Grubbash Coaltooth
"101 More Recipes For Halflings", by Morkal Myke (on inspection, turns out to be how to cook a dead halfling, not popular recipes for consumption by halflings)
"Encyclopedia Subterranica", by The Ruling Council of Erelhei-Cinlu
"Why Elves Are Better", by Colollethethilalilion Rilliralliverisillisurnayme
"Vorpal Blades and How to Forge Them," by Jurk Snill (on inspection, it turns out that the author hasn't ever even seen a magic sword)

 

[Sidereal Knight]

Noble Beasts of Khorvaire by Ellistan ir'Hevlan is a lavishly illustrated folio covering a selection of magical beasts and aberrations... unfortunately, the author included more myth and folklore than careful research, and is incorrect in many cases. One notable problem is the misidentification of hyppogriffs, griffins, and pegusi. The illustrations are fairly accurate, however.

 

[sjmiller]

I have been known to take actual book titles and alter them slightly to produce books for fantasy games. Here are some of my favorite real world book titles:
The History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages (2 volumes)
The Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armour: In All Times and In All Places Along With Some Closely Related Subjects
Authentic Thurmaturgy by Isaac Bonewitz
The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Secret Societies
The Common Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
The History of the English Speaking People
Principia Discordia
Principia Mathematica (this one I think I spelled wrong, but am too lazy to look up)

Here are a few fictional titles I made up just now:
Diplomacy: A Complete Treatice on Diplomatic Methods Both Subtle and Nefarious.
The Works of Montgomery Dexter-Jones, Third Earl of Broughton - Being a Series of Essays on the Concoction, Distillation, and Use of Liquids Most Poisonous.
The Tales of Melarius the Elder

Hope these help!

 

[freebfrost]

EDIT-CURSE YOUR BLACK SOUL, FREEBFROST!!!

You're just jealous of my Colossal Black Soul Gem!

 

[Mazlo]

A week or so ago, there was discussion of lectures at the "Studious Accord," a meeting of wizards and sorcerers in a poster's homebrew world. The lectures there could easily be books instead.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=166646

• Master Enoch: Animated Objects, Constructs, and Guardians for every caster
• Quintus Unda: The Empire’s Edicts against Sorcery
• Keavon “Razorflame” Dweaman: Poisons, Curses, Traps, Avoidance
• Oakthorn: Magical Common/The Remmersdall Primary Academy
• Japheth Arcane: The Language Primeval, ongoing research
• Androth Telmak: The Arcanist’s Alliance for Order
• Geldrath Ambine: Strange Occurrences from lost little girls to Hell’s stampeding bison
• Avrem Nyx: Planar Conduits of Terna
• Daria Meme: Contact medallions, newsletters, and other information sources year-round
• Nahal: Innovative Thaumaturgy
• Elkrith Myan: Astromancy
• Ronnasic of Sigil: Vlaakith: Domini Astralo
• Specgam Al’Garbetts: Useful and decorative flora of the North Coast
• Kwidfadulus Gelbramblin: Drafting to Dweomers: Manufactured Magic
• Donthal Grey: The Undead Scourge of Czelsvaria, Kadgar and Beyond
• Benjamin Charat: Magical Masks of the Goblin lands
• Benjamin Stilestimer: Alchemical Products and Supplies
• Ru’ the Gaunt: Shipments from abroad
• Boran the Moneylender: Trade Notes and Letters of Credit, Savings & Loan
• Master Enoch: Durable Stone Golems
• Contact Amulets

• Quintus Unda: The Empire’s Edicts Against Sorcery
• Adolphus Nigralkan: The History of Magical adjudication both inside and outside the Empire, with special attention to the pre-imperial era
• Njalthek Midiktor: Recipe Rudiments: A study of the development of wizardry under close observation of the development of spell components
• Mirgathor Galibrani: More than movement: Can the natural magical resistance of metal be overcome?
• Rikkard Nelethian: Women and Magic: Why high Spellcasting and female humanoids are incompatible
• Elesiana Felethlow: The Weaker Sex: Sexism and Wizardry throughout the ages
• Algertioth Werdiothi: Elements of the Elements: The search for the building blocks of magical energy via the discussion of natural laws of energy conservation
• Eglianthius Morgethiko: Physiology Studies in Giantkind: Dissection practices for use on live trolls
• Silvana Beaverflow: Gods: do they exist because WE believe, or do we exist because THEY believe?
• Algethian Mordainia: magic; a natural force, or an intelligent construct?
• Denethgor Kalaunt: "Sorcerers. Menace, Salvation or demonspawn?"
• Dexter Nemrod: Are there degrees of evil? Religious ramifications of the question of magic without Gods
• Urgen Spiritseeker: Moral dilemma: Save the soul, kill the body - Discussion of exorcisms
• Fir Mothoth: Bloodright: A treatise on the Relevance of Ancestry to Arcane Ability
• Tobias Greer: Brewing Innovations, A Pilot Study: Report of Previously Unknown Functional Alchemical Ingredients
• "Towards the Modeling of Ebullient Energies" (a work surveying three different techniques for creating diagrams of the magic that animates objects)
• Mastrio Vorgari: Iron Golems and Smelting with Tincture of Cantharidin and Spirit of Vitriol" (a work describing the wizard's experience creating Iron Golems using a specific tincture and spirit during the smelting process)
• Endrath Glyphram: Arcane Symbols: Nitsian vs. Prondian Dialects in Bargained Summoning
• Ilesia the Erudite: A Review of Zalmoon's Interpretation and Solution of the 79th verse of Brinnadoon's Riddle
• Helmyrae Av’ Massar: Amalgam Studies of the Western Whipplebird and the Black-horned Toad

Monte Cook also had a list of 100 books that could be found in Ptolus on the Delver's Guild website (which those who've pre-ordered gain access to.)

--Mazlo

 

[Kafkonia]

The Encyclopedia of Tlon and any of the other tomes from Borges's "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Terranus."

Heck, just go mining in Borges and you'll have enough for the whole library. Especially if you read "The Library of Babel", set in an infinite library that contains every possible book, including every possible combination of letters in every possible language.

 

[Ghostwind]

The Ecology of the Grue

Have to slip something old school in there.

 

[Kaodi]

Ah, Books...

Before I forget this one, I was thinking of " A Dissertation On The Strength And Weaknesses Of The Great Worms " by Velendo of Calphas... a massive, thick tomb... utterly blank... hehehe...

Gith by Zerthimon
Famous Metalworkers of Krangath v451
The Fall of the Baatorians by ...
The Cascade: Crimes Of Celestials by Anonymous
Raphael's Three Thousand, Nine Hundred And Fifty One Basic Principles Of The Conservation of Divinity
Hralsce Widarn's Origin of Outsiders
One Million And One Arcadian Nights
Living And Dying On Ysgard (Over And Over And Over) by Beowulf
Graz'zt Guide To Success In The Sack (Introduction by Iggwilv)
The Manes In The Iron Maiden
A Guide To Famous Battlefields of Hades v13
Lady Fierna's Lamentations, by the Lady Fierna
A Beginner's Guide To Swimming (In Sheyruushk)
Step-By-Step Instructions For Building Your Own Modron by Secundus
Mahlhevik's Constellations Of Lunia
A Tale Of Two Planes: Dothion And Shurrock
Skerrit's Guide To The Creatures of the Beastlands
A (Relatively) Brief History of Sadism And Masochism by The Lady of Pain
A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Multiverse by Quenntil (Introduction by Abbath)
Principles Of Planewalking And Planar Navigation by Anonymous
V'ger's Guide To The 999th Plane of the Abyss
A True Story of the Fall v87256 by Malcanthet
Et Cetera, Et Cetera, Et Cetera by Kaodi