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Magical Books

Illustration in black and red ink showing the Seal of Approbata - a six-pointed star surrounded by alchemical and magical symbols. From Cyprianus, 18th century. Cyprianus is also known as the Black Book, and is the textbook of the Black School at Wittenburg, the book from which a witch or sorceror gets his spells. The Black School at Wittenburg was purportedly a place in Germany where one went to learn the black arts. Archives & Manuscripts Keywords: Occult; Star; Talismans; Demon; Alchemy; Magic; Demonology; M L Cyprianus, Magical Books
Illustration in black and red ink showing the Seal of Approbata – a six-pointed star surrounded by alchemical and magical symbols. From Cyprianus, 18th century. Cyprianus is also known as the Black Book, and is the textbook of the Black School at Wittenburg, the book from which a witch or sorceror gets his spells. The Black School at Wittenburg was purportedly a place in Germany where one went to learn the black arts. Archives & Manuscripts Keywords: Occult; Star; Talismans; Demon; Alchemy; Magic; Demonology; M L Cyprianus

Ink & Quill
Author Thomas Knauss
Series Dragonwing Games/Bastion Press
Publisher DWBP
Publish date 2002

Unlike its counterparts, magical books do not bestow bonuses to ability scores, AC, attack rolls, saving throws and skill checks. Instead, they benefit their readers with many unique and unusual abilities not acquired through magical librams, manuals and tomes. The majority of magical written works are magical books.

Tomes

Despite their tremendous potency, tomes are easily the rarest and also the most limited magical books appearing in only six different basic varieties. Tomes inherently increase one of the reader’s ability scores. Because they permanently increase an ability score, the production of tomes requires an expenditure of a vast quantity of experience points. The unwillingness of most spellcasters to sacrifice experience points in this manner drastically limits their production.

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