Book of Death [Archive] - Wizards Community

Book of Death [Archive] - Wizards Community

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narack
11-21-07, 01:03 PM I made a unique Artifact Called the Book of Death. Was hold by Nerull himself and captured by Kas. Kas was Vecna subordinate. their battle in which Vecna loose his hand and eye was about what they do with the Book Kas steal from Nerull under the order of Vecna. Since Kas ran away other deity heard about the book. They didn't know anything about such a powerful book. So the good gods tried to get the book from Kas and were not able to do so because the book could never leave the material plane if not in the hands of Nerull or true follower of his order. So the Good gods send an order to the priest of material plane to get the item and protect it somewhere not to be found. Alot died in the battle but they manage to get the book and hide it where no one will ever find it. With century advancing not a living creature remember those days. Tiamat learning about a piece of information recently that could lead to the book location has made him sending his spawn and other followers to it research. And this peice of information is unknowingly under the PC hand.

Ok so that's a small description of the back story of that book i made. Now i need to make it worth being wanted by evil and destroyed by the good. here what i have for now.

Book Of Dead
- Write a name of person in it and he die instantly
(use Death Note anime death rules in term of not messing people with another person with same name)
- Aura of pure evil
100' radius center on the book and aura of evil is emitted giving all evil character within the radius a +4 divine bonus to all saves, attack roll, competence roll. Also giving -4 to all the same to good character
Good character are also bestow a -2 character level within the radius and -1 if the character is neutral
- True Divination
the book as a semi-intelligent being can answer a question once/week .The precision depend on the alignment
Evil = precise answer of a very complicated or specific answer
Neutral = Understandable answer of a normal question
Good = non-understandable answer (seem alot cryptic, good chance you never understand the answer) simple question only.

So those are the 3 effect i have so far but i really need more.
Evil is pretty much set because True Divination answer to their question is more powerful than a comparable answer received by the same question ask to a Wish spell just to give you an idea of how precise it could be.

there is also the Plane shift to Nerull place but only when you are a true follower of his religion.
narack
11-29-07, 12:20 PM bumping up
Legdiwena
11-29-07, 02:13 PM What's the DC on death?
Damned slayer
11-29-07, 04:54 PM if he relies on Death note series their aint any but the user must know the name AND face of its target its a god's tool but it can only kill mortals (would be needed to define in D&D)
I would refer you to truename magic

And I would never accept such item in a world were magic is so present and its in my opinion too powerfull/ none playable for D&D

BTW that book should be neutral not aligned
narack
11-29-07, 06:28 PM ya sure the death effect affect only mortals.

The goal is to protect it so evil cannot find it. This can be done by either by masking the trace of it. or by killing up to the last evil that knows about it, which would include Tiamat.

But for Tiamat it's sure they have no chance, even god cannot kill god so they absolutely need an idea how to hold him out the way. The only way around for Tiamat would be to communicate with a good god. I don't know why my players didn't thought of that yet, they even have a priest in the party. Just making contact with a high level enough good dragon to contact Bahamut would be a way. Anyway there's good chance to happen because they found out while ago about a prophecy about the "Age of war" about dragons,celestial and demons fighting for something. Obviously at that moment that prophecy meant something else because of the situation they were in.

The reach of the book should be the end of my campaign which is running for the last 1 year and half (45-50 games of 10hrs each). So have have already a huge background done. They finish the first part of the campaign 2 months ago at about level 14 and now they engaged the second one at which they started with new character 700 years after the events as level 2. they just have hit level 4 and before level 6 i need something up for that book because informations gathering should start as soon they hit the next big city.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
narack 11-21-07, 01:03 PM	I made a unique Artifact Called the Book of Death. Was hold by Nerull himself and captured by Kas. Kas was Vecna subordinate. their battle in which Vecna loose his hand and eye was about what they do with the Book Kas steal from Nerull under the order of Vecna. Since Kas ran away other deity heard about the book. They didn't know anything about such a powerful book. So the good gods tried to get the book from Kas and were not able to do so because the book could never leave the material plane if not in the hands of Nerull or true follower of his order. So the Good gods send an order to the priest of material plane to get the item and protect it somewhere not to be found. Alot died in the battle but they manage to get the book and hide it where no one will ever find it. With century advancing not a living creature remember those days. Tiamat learning about a piece of information recently that could lead to the book location has made him sending his spawn and other followers to it research. And this peice of information is unknowingly under the PC hand. Ok so that's a small description of the back story of that book i made. Now i need to make it worth being wanted by evil and destroyed by the good. here what i have for now. Book Of Dead - Write a name of person in it and he die instantly (use Death Note anime death rules in term of not messing people with another person with same name) - Aura of pure evil 100' radius center on the book and aura of evil is emitted giving all evil character within the radius a +4 divine bonus to all saves, attack roll, competence roll. Also giving -4 to all the same to good character Good character are also bestow a -2 character level within the radius and -1 if the character is neutral - True Divination the book as a semi-intelligent being can answer a question once/week .The precision depend on the alignment Evil = precise answer of a very complicated or specific answer Neutral = Understandable answer of a normal question Good = non-understandable answer (seem alot cryptic, good chance you never understand the answer) simple question only. So those are the 3 effect i have so far but i really need more. Evil is pretty much set because True Divination answer to their question is more powerful than a comparable answer received by the same question ask to a Wish spell just to give you an idea of how precise it could be. there is also the Plane shift to Nerull place but only when you are a true follower of his religion.
narack 11-29-07, 12:20 PM	bumping up
Legdiwena 11-29-07, 02:13 PM	What's the DC on death?
Damned slayer 11-29-07, 04:54 PM	if he relies on Death note series their aint any but the user must know the name AND face of its target its a god's tool but it can only kill mortals (would be needed to define in D&D) I would refer you to truename magic And I would never accept such item in a world were magic is so present and its in my opinion too powerfull/ none playable for D&D BTW that book should be neutral not aligned
narack 11-29-07, 06:28 PM	ya sure the death effect affect only mortals. The goal is to protect it so evil cannot find it. This can be done by either by masking the trace of it. or by killing up to the last evil that knows about it, which would include Tiamat. But for Tiamat it's sure they have no chance, even god cannot kill god so they absolutely need an idea how to hold him out the way. The only way around for Tiamat would be to communicate with a good god. I don't know why my players didn't thought of that yet, they even have a priest in the party. Just making contact with a high level enough good dragon to contact Bahamut would be a way. Anyway there's good chance to happen because they found out while ago about a prophecy about the "Age of war" about dragons,celestial and demons fighting for something. Obviously at that moment that prophecy meant something else because of the situation they were in. The reach of the book should be the end of my campaign which is running for the last 1 year and half (45-50 games of 10hrs each). So have have already a huge background done. They finish the first part of the campaign 2 months ago at about level 14 and now they engaged the second one at which they started with new character 700 years after the events as level 2. they just have hit level 4 and before level 6 i need something up for that book because informations gathering should start as soon they hit the next big city.