The Magic Book

Overview

A thief will try to pawn off a book on the party that is actually a book of infinite spells

Trigger

The women will try to sell the book to who ever wants to buy it. She will start by asking 10,000 for the book, but will go as low as 100. She wants to get some cash so she can leave the city. She will tell them that she found it in a vault in the sewer.

Description

While walking down the street you see what appears to be a women dressed in robes waving you over to the alley. Strung over her back is a bound leather sack.

Dm notes

The book is a Book of Infinite Spells. It was stolen from a local mage (who will be very pissed off). To limit the balance in getting the book for such a small value, have many of the pages be blank.

Key

The wizard who is owner of the book is tracking the book. He sees the PC's with the books and will hunt them down. One of the pages could have a curse on the page, Thus when the PC uses that page (looks like a fly spell) s/he is cursed. Thus an adventure to remove curse or find out what it is.

Posted by

Joseph DuBois
Last updated: Wed Jan 03 1996 wmh