I'm doing the prep work for RotRL game for a new group. The last group I started on this Adventure Path loved the bookstore and wanted to learn more about the books on the shelves. While I was able to spin a few titles off the cuff and fill in with the generic books of history, elvish poetry ect this time I'd like to be able to have list of book titles to draw from. So I thought I'd ask everyone here for some suggestions. DM's what have you used in the past or with this AP? Players what text's have you found that peaked your characters desire to adventure?
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Fables of Thassilon: a very questionable book about stories coming directly from the times were Thassilon was still an empire (possibly fake)
History of Varisia: surely wretten by someone in Magnimar or Korvosa... for them sotry began with the arrivan of Cheliax
Calistria's Sting: a set of poetry about love, love lost and revenge (highly erotic)
The Pattern of Stars: stories and fables about Desna and her favored
Dreams of Dreamer's Lost: stories of those who have been lost in the wyld and somehow being saved by night dreams or nightmares, always though as sent by Desna
The Goblin: a humor story about a not so evil goblin having running from humans for his life... the ending is unexpected as the goblin is strampled by a horse after escaping his pursuers
1001 Goblins: small and funny stories about goblins, and their stupid games, 50% are true... about 50% are about how goblins die in a stupid way.
Goblin: Monster in the night: similar to 1001 goblins but dealing in the dark and monstruous side of this creatures, also stories about bugbear bogeymen
I have gotten a lot of mileage out of Seventh Sanctum's Bookspinner in several games.
Substituting some of the nouns with Varisia specific proper nouns/flavor could create several shelves worth of books in only a few minutes (particularly if you include Extras and check the "Include information on the book's quality of information" box).
Almanach of Varisian Flora and Fauna:
Not too thick booklet about plants and beasts common in Varisia, with advise on what to grow (and when), what to search in the forest, what to hunt, what to avoid.
Katapeshi Nights: Arabian nights style stories or adventure, romance, and wishes. Features gnolls, genies and Diff (sic) demons (more sic) and the heroes (usually faithful of Serenrae) who deal with them.
How the Devils came to Cheliax: Highly subjective propaganda against the Thrice-Damned House Thrune and their hellish rule in Cheliax aided by infernal hordes. It doesn't help that a lot of the stuff is true...
Scenic travels in Varisia: A travel guide to a number of old Thassalonian monuments (fully half of the book is about Magnimar)
The Blacklords of Magic: Cautionary tales about a circle of vicious Wizards that once ruled a kingdom with their magic. A lot of it is distorted, half-made up pseudo-information about ancient Thassalion, and the rest is pure fiction, but there is a small kernel of truth in the book (we won't say what part, though).
Frostbite - of the High North: Not too accurate recounting of the life and culture in the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, Irrisen and the Realms of the Mammoth Lords, written as if told by The Linnorm Itself.
Calistria's Sting: a set of poetry about love, love lost and revenge (highly erotic)
Cut the first two parts. That soppy stuff is for Shelyn. Instead, put in the elvish Kama Sutra.
I think Calistria's holy texts might be the perfect entertainment: Lots of sex underscored with violence and satisfying revenge. what could one want more?
Morning Wood: A torrid romance novel about a lumberjack and the daughter of a noble family.
Fatal Attractions: A thriller about a female adventurer that is stalked by one of her fans, getting as far as framing her for murder just to get her attention.
Smoke and Mirrors: A mag-fi story about a dedicated arcane researcher that, after decades of thorough study, comes to the conclusion that all magic miracles in the world are a lie. Having found out no magic ever conceivable under their universe's physics could ever create anything even close to rune magic, magic mutants, or magic cities, he sets on a perilous journey to find out the truth behind his theory of the "god-devices". This book is considered a work of heressy on nearly every single city in Golarion and heathens have been reported to spontaneously combust or being struck by divine lightning while flipping through its pages. Read at your own risk.
Mobile Suit Gyrdam: A survival story in a war-torn Absalom where gangs of revolver-totting bandidos and giant clockwork mecha rule the landscape. The ending caused this novel to be widely rejected as the main protagonist's giant mecha is destroyed by a malfunction caused by an impossibly ludicrous plot device called a "rubber band".
Thanks, some of these are a great help. Anyone else got some suggestions?
I have gotten a lot of mileage out of Seventh Sanctum's Bookspinner in several games.
Substituting some of the nouns with Varisia specific proper nouns/flavor could create several shelves worth of books in only a few minutes (particularly if you include Extras and check the "Include information on the book's quality of information" box).
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