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Hey all,

So my players are approaching the end of their adventure and I need some advice. I may have gamemastered my way into a corner....

So far, they are on a mission and keep hearing rumours of a magic-hating thing that is killing high-level wizards, druids and the like. I have a good idea of a mechanic (not saying here in case some of them read this) but I also need a motivation.

Why would a baddie in a magic-filled world hate magic? I'm stuck on boring and non-epic reasons like jealous of magic brother, or jilted by magic lover.

thanks in advance,
Stephanie

Hey all,

Just to follow up on this, this Library was a huge hit.

There were many levels, each successively harder and each with new monsters. Lots of magical siderooms with weird magical settings - lakes, mountains, crypts, etc. The players loved it - kept trying to go back for more without good reason.

Thanks everyone for all your help!

The library is in the magical university my characters attend. They're about to explore it for the first time.

It's very old, and known to be dangerous. But the creatures aren't going to be evil, just true neutral in a very scary way.

These ideas are great.

I would say 2 also, but it takes 10 min to cast. I think that nerfs it enough to be useless in combat but interesting for other situations. So my vote is 1.

Hi all,

I'm running a campaign with a dangerous library-themed dungeon. I'm looking for some good library or book monsters or even weird traps to put in there. I suspect the players will be back here a lot, so I need quite a bit of content of any level.

Some thoughts so far:

crazy traps
ghosts (i.e. http://paizo.com/PRD/monsters/ghost.html) of former visitors
spiders and worms in wet corners of the library
air elementals (because fire and water ones have no place in a library)

But I really want some more, I dunno, explicitly library-themed monsters. I was thinking a mimic that looks like a magical tome instead of a chest but not sure if that's too cheesy.

Ideas?