paizo.com Recent Posts in What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?paizo.com Recent Posts in What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?2019-05-26T08:13:31Z2019-05-26T08:13:31ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Mudfoothttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#442019-06-03T22:38:20Z2019-06-03T22:38:20Z<p>27. No smoking
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28. No steaming</p>27. No smoking
28. No steamingMudfoot2019-06-03T22:38:20ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Cevahhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#432019-06-03T20:31:50Z2019-06-03T20:31:50Z<p>3rd floor: A Soulgate.</p>
<p>This is like a stargate, but is powered by a soul, and it sends you to the plane that a soul is bound to go where it would have gone upon death.</p>
<p>/cevah</p>3rd floor: A Soulgate.
This is like a stargate, but is powered by a soul, and it sends you to the plane that a soul is bound to go where it would have gone upon death.
/cevahCevah2019-06-03T20:31:50ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?GeraintElberionhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#422019-06-03T17:56:00Z2019-06-03T15:14:53Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">blahpers wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">HeHateMe wrote:</div><blockquote> Boxed set of the "Twilight" book series? </blockquote><a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvenEvilHasStandards" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Even Evil Has Standards.</a> </blockquote><p>Even the worst villain wont stoop so low as to use a maze spell on a message board!blahpers wrote:HeHateMe wrote: Boxed set of the "Twilight" book series?
Even Evil Has Standards. Even the worst villain wont stoop so low as to use a maze spell on a message board!GeraintElberion2019-06-03T15:14:53ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?UnArcaneElectionhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#412019-06-03T09:17:47Z2019-06-03T09:16:25Z<p>24. No unauthorized viewing of the Oppara Standardized Humanoid Intelligence Test answers — the Master has had to deal with a cheating scandal recently.
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25. No breaking wind when a Fortitude Adaptability and Resilience Test is in progress — it skews the results.
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26. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBehTrPa8w0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">No putting squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling</a>.</p>24. No unauthorized viewing of the Oppara Standardized Humanoid Intelligence Test answers -- the Master has had to deal with a cheating scandal recently.
25. No breaking wind when a Fortitude Adaptability and Resilience Test is in progress -- it skews the results.
26. No putting squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling.UnArcaneElection2019-06-03T09:16:25ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Meirrilhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#402019-06-03T09:10:00Z2019-06-03T07:12:05Z<p>19. Absolutely no glorifying spellcasters other than the master in the tower.
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20. Scrolls are to be delivered to the silver plate in the antichamber. They are not to be brought into the library or read before being examined by a qualified being.
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21. Nobody is allowed to carry both a bag of holding and a portable hole. If you enter with both in your possession, the portable hole must be left with an attendant.
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22. No racing of any kind.
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23. Conjuration is prohibited except in designated areas.</p>19. Absolutely no glorifying spellcasters other than the master in the tower.
20. Scrolls are to be delivered to the silver plate in the antichamber. They are not to be brought into the library or read before being examined by a qualified being.
21. Nobody is allowed to carry both a bag of holding and a portable hole. If you enter with both in your possession, the portable hole must be left with an attendant.
22. No racing of any kind.
23. Conjuration is prohibited except in designated areas.Meirril2019-06-03T07:12:05ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Ryze Kujahttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#392019-06-03T09:09:42Z2019-06-03T05:31:30Z<p>So I've been fleshing this tower out, and I want to have a couple of bound demons that are in the tower. Based on your suggestions, I want to have a Mohrg-Lich who is sort of like the "librarian/researcher" who is helping this wizard gain Lichdom and he'll say something akin to "I'd love to eviscerate you but that's not my purpose here" sort of thing, a glabrezu who's the "guardian" and repeatedly taunts/antagonizes the PC's with "I can only attack an obvious threat or if I am defending myself ... 'Obvious' is obviously undefined, would you like to draw a weapon?” and "c'mon puny, bring it, the master isn't even here, he'll never know", and finally a sheepish, always-terrified, anxious little imp, and I'm going to roleplay him with a comically-annoying, squeaky voice and this guy is in charge of making sure that all the master's rules are followed while the master is gone (the last imp who was the "rulekeeper" is now pickled in a glass jar). I think it would be absolutely hilarious if the imp is incessantly rattling off the list of "rules" that is a mile long as if his life depended on it (and it does definitely depend on it), and the Mohrg-Lich and the Glabrezu are constantly "SHAAADDAAAAAP stupid wretch!" and the imp literally begs them both (and any guests) to not break any rules.</p>
<p>So can you guys think of a funny (but practical) list of rules this wizard might have? If the "rule" tells a "story" without the story actually being told, the better :) The master has already created rules like:</p>
<p>1) no fighting in my library
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2) no fighting in my laboratory
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3) no eating sugary or salty food in the library (except the master can eat his peanuts)
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4) no sandwiches made with rye bread anywhere in the tower
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5) no casting animate dead on the master's dead pixie collection
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6) do not hold any poisonous frogs while sitting in the master's armchair
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7) no wind spells near the bookshelves
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8) no donut-shaped food anywhere in the tower
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9) no cats, at all
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10) no elvish ceremonial dances or music
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11) any creature with 4 legs MUST WALK (cannot run) over the celestial dire tiger rug (and the rug has a small tear in it that for some reason cannot be mended)
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12) no touching the ever-bag of peanuts while wearing dirty lab gloves
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13) no water spells near the flaming unicorn horn
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14) if you have recently handled any chimera feces, no perusing the master's books without washing your hands first
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15) no talk about the new human king to the south, nor any mention of his name
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16) Hands off my succubus, I don't care "if" she was in fact “begging” you or not
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17) Absolutely NO zombies can handle my books, scrolls, and parchments, EVER
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18) aaaaannd... go!</p>So I've been fleshing this tower out, and I want to have a couple of bound demons that are in the tower. Based on your suggestions, I want to have a Mohrg-Lich who is sort of like the "librarian/researcher" who is helping this wizard gain Lichdom and he'll say something akin to "I'd love to eviscerate you but that's not my purpose here" sort of thing, a glabrezu who's the "guardian" and repeatedly taunts/antagonizes the PC's with "I can only attack an obvious threat or if I am defending...Ryze Kuja2019-06-03T05:31:30ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?UnArcaneElectionhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#382019-06-01T20:25:09Z2019-06-01T08:14:21Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">DungeonmasterCal wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I'm sorry to just pop in but I've had 8 hours of sleep in 5 days and I'm feeling kinda punch drunk. When I first glanced at the headline I thought it said "wizard's laundry room". </p>
<p>Carry on. </blockquote><p>Thanks a lot. Now you've got me thinking that the PCs are going to find dirty socks and underwear strewn all over the library . . . .DungeonmasterCal wrote:I'm sorry to just pop in but I've had 8 hours of sleep in 5 days and I'm feeling kinda punch drunk. When I first glanced at the headline I thought it said "wizard's laundry room".
Carry on.
Thanks a lot. Now you've got me thinking that the PCs are going to find dirty socks and underwear strewn all over the library . . . .UnArcaneElection2019-06-01T08:14:21ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Sethttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#372019-06-01T08:09:50Z2019-06-01T07:51:12Z<p>A mahogany desk holds a series of pages ready to be bound into a tome, gathered from his researches. Each details a 'true name' for a fiend that •didn't• work, or a variant binding circle that failed to contain what was called up, and the grisly results thereof (many simulacra gave their fake worthless lives for this research, but it was all for science!).</p>
<p>On this same table is a currently completely accurate book on summoning, with one vital page magically erased, which he's currently retranscribing with a fatally flawed procedure. When he's completed this forgery, he'll sneak the book back to the arcane academy he borrowed it from, to make things more... <i>interesting</i> for aspiring conjurers from his old alma mater.</p>A mahogany desk holds a series of pages ready to be bound into a tome, gathered from his researches. Each details a 'true name' for a fiend that *didn't* work, or a variant binding circle that failed to contain what was called up, and the grisly results thereof (many simulacra gave their fake worthless lives for this research, but it was all for science!).
On this same table is a currently completely accurate book on summoning, with one vital page magically erased, which he's currently...Set2019-06-01T07:51:12ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?blahpershttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#362019-06-03T05:52:56Z2019-05-31T23:57:58Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">HeHateMe wrote:</div><blockquote> Boxed set of the "Twilight" book series? </blockquote><p><a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvenEvilHasStandards" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Even Evil Has Standards.</a>HeHateMe wrote:Boxed set of the "Twilight" book series?
Even Evil Has Standards.blahpers2019-05-31T23:57:58ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?blahpershttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#352019-05-31T23:53:57Z2019-05-31T23:53:27Z<p>Books. Bookshelves. Maybe a step ladder. Armchairs. Tables. Bookmarks. A card catalog. Maybe a nice collection of teas. (Edit: I see "tea" has been covered already.)</p>
<p>Oh, and a cat. Can't have a relaxing read in your personal library without a cat.</p>Books. Bookshelves. Maybe a step ladder. Armchairs. Tables. Bookmarks. A card catalog. Maybe a nice collection of teas. (Edit: I see "tea" has been covered already.)
Oh, and a cat. Can't have a relaxing read in your personal library without a cat.blahpers2019-05-31T23:53:27ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?HeHateMehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#342019-06-01T20:23:52Z2019-05-31T22:54:42Z<p>Boxed set of the "Twilight" book series?</p>Boxed set of the "Twilight" book series?HeHateMe2019-05-31T22:54:42ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Ventnorhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#332019-05-29T03:47:06Z2019-05-29T03:47:06Z<p>Maybe on one of the tables is a half-eaten sandwich and a half-filled mug of tea, indicating that the wizard had to pause in his studies for a bit to address something but will be back soon?</p>Maybe on one of the tables is a half-eaten sandwich and a half-filled mug of tea, indicating that the wizard had to pause in his studies for a bit to address something but will be back soon?Ventnor2019-05-29T03:47:06ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Wheldrakehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#322019-05-28T16:50:02Z2019-05-28T16:50:02Z<p>If the wizard is evil, maybe he also has one or more self-serving hobbies, like drug and alcohol use, scantily-clad servants (sex slaves), taxidermy or anatomical studies based on sentient races, etc, and the various paraphernalia associated with these hobbies. Such things could be a useful weakness for PCs to take advantage of.</p>
<p>Nice thread, BTW.</p>If the wizard is evil, maybe he also has one or more self-serving hobbies, like drug and alcohol use, scantily-clad servants (sex slaves), taxidermy or anatomical studies based on sentient races, etc, and the various paraphernalia associated with these hobbies. Such things could be a useful weakness for PCs to take advantage of.
Nice thread, BTW.Wheldrake2019-05-28T16:50:02ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Claxonhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#312019-05-28T16:17:53Z2019-05-28T16:17:53Z<p>Some sort of lockbox or storage facility filled with hundreds or thousand of gems. The gems have been filled with souls created from Soul Bind, Soul Transfer, and Trap the Soul. The wizard uses these souls in conjunction with Soul-Powered Magic feat and to trade with Devils (or other evil outsiders). </p>
<p>Outside of this specific space, the wizard's library looks like any other normal wizards, with research books on magic and different things, nothing obviously evil.</p>Some sort of lockbox or storage facility filled with hundreds or thousand of gems. The gems have been filled with souls created from Soul Bind, Soul Transfer, and Trap the Soul. The wizard uses these souls in conjunction with Soul-Powered Magic feat and to trade with Devils (or other evil outsiders).
Outside of this specific space, the wizard's library looks like any other normal wizards, with research books on magic and different things, nothing obviously evil.Claxon2019-05-28T16:17:53ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Watery Souphttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#302019-05-28T16:11:08Z2019-05-28T16:11:08Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Squeakmaan wrote:</div><blockquote> Tea, but like, evil tea </blockquote><p>I think this should be taken more seriously than it was probably intended. It really goes to the setting of the room IMO.
<p>If the wizard is chaotic evil, you can reflect that (or hint at that) by having the books be poorly maintained and disorganized. If the wizard is lawful evil, the books can be meticulously organized.</p>
<p>Tea is (or is viewed as) sophisticated, and imparts a sense of routine and ceremony to the library. You can have a devil sitting there wearing glasses and brewing blood tea, surprised by the PCs because he was expecting the Evil Wizard for Evil Book Club. The third member can be a talking book, whose author was trapped inside the book. Weird and creepy and a little humorous, but says a lot about the wizard's character.</p>Squeakmaan wrote:Tea, but like, evil tea
I think this should be taken more seriously than it was probably intended. It really goes to the setting of the room IMO. If the wizard is chaotic evil, you can reflect that (or hint at that) by having the books be poorly maintained and disorganized. If the wizard is lawful evil, the books can be meticulously organized.
Tea is (or is viewed as) sophisticated, and imparts a sense of routine and ceremony to the library. You can have a devil sitting...Watery Soup2019-05-28T16:11:08ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Tim Emrickhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#292019-05-28T16:09:13Z2019-05-28T16:09:13Z<p>One of the last campaigns I ran in 3.5 featured an evil wizard's tower. He was a transmuter obsessed with planar bindings, building constructs, and creating hybrid monstrosities. His lair included the following areas:</p>
<p>• A dungeon full of "breeding stock" for his hybridization experiments, and some of his more successful results. (The latter used the <a href="https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/templates/amalgam-creature-cr-special/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">amalgam template</a> from Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary.) This part of the complex connected to some of the local catacombs, with that entrance guarded by a bound bebelith.</p>
<p>• A golemworks with a recently-finished flesh golem, and a bound kyton who maintained the magical machinery used to power the process.</p>
<p>• A succubus cohort who guarded his private quarters. [Insert speculations about succubus grappling here...]</p>
<p>• A library guarded by a handful of animated pieces of furniture (a desk and a couple large candelabra) and a number of animated, flying books. His homunculus familiar typically kept watch here, too.</p>
<p>• A couple of "tamed" aberrations, such as a charmed mimic who posed as a door in one of the many workshops.</p>One of the last campaigns I ran in 3.5 featured an evil wizard's tower. He was a transmuter obsessed with planar bindings, building constructs, and creating hybrid monstrosities. His lair included the following areas:
* A dungeon full of "breeding stock" for his hybridization experiments, and some of his more successful results. (The latter used the amalgam template from Green Ronin's Advanced Bestiary.) This part of the complex connected to some of the local catacombs, with that entrance...Tim Emrick2019-05-28T16:09:13ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?I am Nemesishttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#282019-05-28T15:14:23Z2019-05-28T15:14:23Z<p><li>two sets of servants quarters, labeled Disposable Servants & Irreplaceable Servants. The Irreplaceable Servants always send the Disposable Servants with the Bad News.
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<li>Animated Books that attack anyone that takes a book off the shelves, but not anyone shelving books.
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<li>Wizard's Familiar's Opulent Quarters.
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<li>Room/Small Closet for Familiar's Servant.
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<li>Multiple Portraits of Wizard & Familiar. The Wizard can scry through each of the portraits' eyes.
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<li>Magical 'Nemesis' Mannequins that resemble the PC's down to wounds & scars. All equipment is non-magical but accurately labeled.
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<li>Trap= Ever-Winding Staircase.</p>two sets of servants quarters, labeled Disposable Servants & Irreplaceable Servants. The Irreplaceable Servants always send the Disposable Servants with the Bad News.
Animated Books that attack anyone that takes a book off the shelves, but not anyone shelving books.
Wizard's Familiar's Opulent Quarters.
Room/Small Closet for Familiar's Servant.
Multiple Portraits of Wizard & Familiar. The Wizard can scry through each of the portraits' eyes.
Magical 'Nemesis' Mannequins that resemble the PC's...I am Nemesis2019-05-28T15:14:23ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Mudfoothttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#272019-06-01T08:08:14Z2019-05-27T23:12:35Z<p>Bag of peanuts. Evil wizards have to eat too, you know. Could be a magic, ever-full, bag of peanuts.</p>Bag of peanuts. Evil wizards have to eat too, you know. Could be a magic, ever-full, bag of peanuts.Mudfoot2019-05-27T23:12:35ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?WagnerSikahttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#262019-06-01T08:08:07Z2019-05-27T18:46:22Z<p>From the <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/murphys/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Murphys Rules</a>:
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(1d18 or 2d9, five times)
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1 The Big Little Book of Magic
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2 The Book of Punch-Out Golems
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3 1001 Things a Boy Can Do With Human Skin
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4 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Forest" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Fantasy Forest</a>
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5 My Picture Book of Conjured Monsters
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6 The "I Hate to Spell" Spell Book
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7 Jane's Book of Monsters
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8 Dick's Book of Demons
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9 Spot's Book of Spririts
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10 Understanding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller_(role-playing_game)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Traveller</a>
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11 Now We Are Tree: A Druidical Primer
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12 The Big Book of Giants
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13 The Little Book of Leprechauns
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14 <a href="https://boingboing.net/2016/12/17/kickstarting-papers-paycheck.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Papers and Paychecks</a>
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15 The Chaotic Evil Coloring Book
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16 Naked Elf Women and How to Find Them
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17 Plane Truth, the Magazine of the Astrally Alert
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18 The D-18 Dice Chart: Theory and Application
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- Worcester War Gamer's Collective
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Space Gamer 74 May/June 1985</p>
<p>They should make a new complilation with modern RPGs and their stupid/funny rules. Actually the falling damage rule was silly in AD&D and it is silly still.</p>From the Murphys Rules:
(1d18 or 2d9, five times)
1 The Big Little Book of Magic
2 The Book of Punch-Out Golems
3 1001 Things a Boy Can Do With Human Skin
4 Fantasy Forest
5 My Picture Book of Conjured Monsters
6 The "I Hate to Spell" Spell Book
7 Jane's Book of Monsters
8 Dick's Book of Demons
9 Spot's Book of Spririts
10 Understanding Traveller
11 Now We Are Tree: A Druidical Primer
12 The Big Book of Giants
13 The Little Book of Leprechauns
14 Papers and Paychecks
15 The Chaotic Evil...WagnerSika2019-05-27T18:46:22ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Meirrilhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#252019-05-27T15:03:40Z2019-05-27T15:03:40Z<p>Inside of the wizards inner sanctum is a gateway to a demiplane he has created. The demiplane is a magic dead zone. If a ritual is performed in the correct area two portals appear. The obvious portal is a return to the inner sanctum. The hidden portal leads on to another demiplane where time is slowed and the wizard stores his most personally valuable treasures. </p>
<p>Some of the treasures include a bed which reverses aging by 1 day for every 8 hours its used, a small display case containing labeled soul stones, a book that can show the contents of any book in his library, and an alchemical labratory featuring a large glass container that holds a strange green liquid with a female body floating in the bubbling liquid. The body appears to be incomplete, though you aren't sure if it is in a state of decay, or if the body is being assembled. </p>
<p>There are also extensive notes on how to bargain with Pharasma mixed in with the alchemy research material.</p>Inside of the wizards inner sanctum is a gateway to a demiplane he has created. The demiplane is a magic dead zone. If a ritual is performed in the correct area two portals appear. The obvious portal is a return to the inner sanctum. The hidden portal leads on to another demiplane where time is slowed and the wizard stores his most personally valuable treasures.
Some of the treasures include a bed which reverses aging by 1 day for every 8 hours its used, a small display case containing...Meirril2019-05-27T15:03:40ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?pad300https://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#242019-05-27T14:48:41Z2019-05-27T14:48:41Z<p>Furnishings: Comfy chairs. Good (magical) lamps. A music source (construct/bound outsider/ undead for the truly freaky). A refreshments area (wine or other spirits, snack foods like nuts). Art has been mentioned.</p>
<p>WRT to the rest of the tower, don't put (presumably) hijackable gates next to your sanctum sanctorum. Put a guard post/fortification of some sort between. </p>
<p>Consider partial levels, ie. if you enter at level 1, you can go up to level 2a, but then have to go to 3 and back down to get to level 2b.</p>
<p>Consider the following:
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lvl 1 public rooms
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level 2a (access from 1 and 3) Guard post
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level 3 inner common spaces (shared with minions/servants but not public)
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level 2b (access from 3) General Library
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Level 4a (access from 3) Guard post
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level 4b (access from 4a) Sanctum (include small reading room/really private library) (access only from 4a)
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Level 4c bolthole/escape route (access only from 4b)
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Lvl 0 (underground) Guardpost/Dungeon Complex (access from 3)
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Lvl -1 (deeper underground) Gates and experimental spaces. (access from lvl 0)</p>Furnishings: Comfy chairs. Good (magical) lamps. A music source (construct/bound outsider/ undead for the truly freaky). A refreshments area (wine or other spirits, snack foods like nuts). Art has been mentioned.
WRT to the rest of the tower, don't put (presumably) hijackable gates next to your sanctum sanctorum. Put a guard post/fortification of some sort between.
Consider partial levels, ie. if you enter at level 1, you can go up to level 2a, but then have to go to 3 and back down to get...pad3002019-05-27T14:48:41ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Squeakmaanhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#232019-05-27T14:46:53Z2019-05-27T14:46:53Z<p>Tea, but like, evil tea</p>Tea, but like, evil teaSqueakmaan2019-05-27T14:46:53ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?j b 200https://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#222019-06-01T08:05:27Z2019-05-27T12:41:42Z<p>You see the terrible visage of a glabrezu before you, an ancient tome grasped in it's large pincer claws. Perched upon it's maw filled with razor sharp teeth is a set of small spectacles. It turns toward you and exposes it's glistening fangs...
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"Welcome to my master's tower. I can only attack an obvious threat or if I am defending myself ... 'Obvious' is undefined, would you like to draw a weapon, I could use some fun.”</p>You see the terrible visage of a glabrezu before you, an ancient tome grasped in it's large pincer claws. Perched upon it's maw filled with razor sharp teeth is a set of small spectacles. It turns toward you and exposes it's glistening fangs...
"Welcome to my master's tower. I can only attack an obvious threat or if I am defending myself ... 'Obvious' is undefined, would you like to draw a weapon, I could use some fun.”j b 2002019-05-27T12:41:42ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?JDLPFhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#212019-06-01T08:05:17Z2019-05-27T11:39:40Z<p>1. A novelty scroll case bearing the inscription "World's Best Wizard"
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2. A stuffed weasel with a brass plaque that reads "Trouser, Familiar #4"
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3. Guidebook entitled "Top 20 Haunted Mansions of Ustalav"
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4. Architectural plans for a wizard's tower labeled "Wizard Willy's Extendable Erection"
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5. A "Wizard's Weekly" magazine, with a succubi centerfold.</p>1. A novelty scroll case bearing the inscription "World's Best Wizard"
2. A stuffed weasel with a brass plaque that reads "Trouser, Familiar #4"
3. Guidebook entitled "Top 20 Haunted Mansions of Ustalav"
4. Architectural plans for a wizard's tower labeled "Wizard Willy's Extendable Erection"
5. A "Wizard's Weekly" magazine, with a succubi centerfold.JDLPF2019-05-27T11:39:40ZRe: Forums/Pathfinder First Edition: General Discussion: What kinds of things would be in an Evil Wizard's Library room?Steelfiredragonhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs42kox?What-kinds-of-things-would-be-in-an-Evil#202019-05-27T09:02:46Z2019-05-27T09:02:46Z<p>books, more books, and even more books, and some scrolls yess some more scrolls.</p>
<p>he could have enchanted smut books about golems that summon illusionary golems.....</p>
<p>atlases books that once a passage is read has a change to teleport the reader to where ever the area the book is about. So the book of KAtheer would send the reader to KAtheer.....</p>
<p>Spell books</p>
<p>animated rope, animated books, animated Broomsticks, animated rugs and curtains </p>
<p>15 journals</p>
<p>1 crystal ball
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a magic mirror just to ask who the wisest of them all is</p>
<p>an autographed painting of Seoni( worth about 500 gold)
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a book entitled Bridges over troubled waters
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450 gold
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5 diamonds worth 25 gold pieces each
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5 wands of various spells
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5 staves of various enchantments</p>
<p>an enchanted globe of golarion that when spit on will transport the tower and its inhabitants to where the spitter spit at.
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( nobody said the evil wizard couldnt have a childish immature side)</p>
<p>maps of various places
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Astrology charts
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a Ouija board ( you moved it)
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16 enchanted daggers all +1 and some odd number of other enchantments</p>
<p>a painting of the inside of a Calistran Temple .painting is a 1 way portal to said temple.</p>books, more books, and even more books, and some scrolls yess some more scrolls.
he could have enchanted smut books about golems that summon illusionary golems.....
atlases books that once a passage is read has a change to teleport the reader to where ever the area the book is about. So the book of KAtheer would send the reader to KAtheer.....
Spell books
animated rope, animated books, animated Broomsticks, animated rugs and curtains
15 journals
1 crystal ball
a magic mirror just to ask...Steelfiredragon2019-05-27T09:02:46Z