Evil Tomes
What helps evil sleep at night, keeps the good awake.
| D20 | Name | Description |
| 1 | Aberration Arcanus | The eldritch arts of creating an aberration |
| 2 | Bending of Lesser Minds | Domination through enchantment and force of mind |
| 3 | Corpse Fiends | Blueprint of the rise of the dread necromancer and their accomplices |
| 4 | Daemonomicon | Treatise on Yugoloths |
| 5 | Dark Alchemy of Horrors | Concoctions for potent poisons and disease causing agents |
| 6 | Evisceration Grimoire | Dark sorcery and surgical techniques for pealing back the mortal coil |
| 7 | Fiendish Pages of Adriel | Encyclopedic tome of fiends and summoning |
| 8 | Forceful Destructions | Powerful spells of evocational destruction |
| 9 | Ghosts & Specters | Tome dedicated to thinning the veil between the planes |
| 10 | Hello Darkness | Information on the expanses of the Shadow Realm |
| 11 | Hell's Atlas | Numerous maps of the netherplanes' hellscapes |
| 12 | High Necrolore | Bringing out and controlling the undead |
| 13 | Illusory Nightmares | Using illusions to deceive and terrorize |
| 14 | Journal of Alhazred | True madness and vile deeds brought to the page |
| 15 | Lexicon of Dominion Paths | Magical and mystical methods for dominating others |
| 16 | Malice Unbound | Methods of focusing hatred to terrifying effect |
| 17 | Secrets of the Balanor | Ancient tome of the fallen empire detailing their methods for binding of fiends to constructs |
| 18 | The Scarlet Tome | Darkest secrets of blood magic |
| 19 | Trentor's Baleful Songsmithing | A malicious bard's nefarious songbook |
| 20 | Unhallowed Libram | Incantations and rituals of necrotic lore and negative planar energies |
Now, what other details can be "fleshed" out?
| D12 | Cover |
| 1 | Burnished cork |
| 2 | Carved bone |
| 3 | Iron-bound leather |
| 4 | Ivory (carved or etched) |
| 5 | Rough and aged leather |
| 6 | Rough hide |
| 7 | Scale (dragon, behir, etc.) |
| 8 | Shell (turtle, bulette, etc.) |
| 9 | Slate (black or grey) |
| 10 | Stained wood |
| 11 | Stretched humanoid skin |
| 12 | None or Missing |
| D12 | Pages |
| 1 | Bark (Aspen or Birch) |
| 2 | Delicate snakeskin |
| 3 | Humanoid skin |
| 4 | Leaves (treated and pounded) |
| 5 | Onion-like paper |
| 6 | Papyrus |
| 7 | Parchment (rigid or supple) |
| 8 | Pounded tin |
| 9 | Silk |
| 10 | Unknown hide |
| 11 | Vellum |
| 12 | Wafer-thin, heat treated wood |
| D12 | Contents |
| 1 | Almost indecipherable prose (a very hard read) |
| 2 | Clear and concise block text |
| 3 | Condescending and insulting to the reader, in clean and simple prose |
| 4 | Dense and wordy with minuscule text |
| 5 | Dizzying array of coded phrases and symbols, time intensive reading |
| 6 | Flowing script with illustrations |
| 7 | Hurriedly scrawled text with smudges and ink stains |
| 8 | Massive collection of notes, formulae and tables |
| 9 | Meticulously scribed and annotated |
| 10 | Overly flourished script |
| 11 | Ravings of a lunatic, much work is needed to piece together value |
| 12 | Well organized and written in simple script |
| D12 | Written In |
| 1 | Beetle shells, ground |
| 2 | Black currant ink |
| 3 | Blood |
| 4 | Brimstone paste |
| 5 | Charcoal |
| 6 | Coreopsis Ink |
| 7 | Fiendish ichor |
| 8 | Ground minerals |
| 9 | Ground obsidian |
| 10 | Internal fluids |
| 11 | Lead |
| 12 | Squid ink |
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