Re: The Seekers Library

Waterdeep Cuisine
A Waterdeep based cooking book. This book has been
copied many times.
Cost: 50 GP (1st Edition 1000 GP)

Soupe Du Jour
A soup recipe book.
Cost: 25 GP

All About Fungi!
A recipe and resource book concerning mushroom.
Cost: 100 GP

Secret To Calisham Cooking
A regional cookbook. Many of the recipes are in the
old cooking style. The lack of newer introduced
ingredients and cooking methods suggest this book was
an old copy.
Cost: 2000 GP

--- Paul Westermeyer <pwestermeyer@????????.??.com>
wrote:
> The list has been so dead lately, here's an idea for
> a sort of
> round-robin post. Books in this period were unique,
> important items.
> I thought it might be cool to start a list of the
> sorts of books that
> would be famous or infamous in the Spelljamming
> universe. Some of
> these books might be taken from actual sources, some
> might be made up
> ourselves. :)
>
> I'll start with a few books both made up and taken
> from sources. Just
> reply to this post and tag on a few items of your
> own. If everyone on
> the list adds a book or two we might have a very
> extensive list of
> books within a couple of weeks. I'll start us off
> with a couple of
> books from modules, and one of my own design. :)
>
> In the Seekers Library:
>
> The Geonomicon
> -A large book detailing 80 or so discovered worlds.
> Copies are
> extremely rare and sell for 20,000 gp or more. From
> SJR4 'Practical
> Planetology'.
>
> The Magical Properties of Gemstones by Mage Tenser
> The Magical Properties of Herbs and Flowers by Mage
> Tenser
> The Metaphysics of Mathematics by Mage Nystul
> -These three works are fairly common, standard texts
> on their
> subjects, and all are in the common tongue of Oerth.
> Copies usually
> sell for 150 gp each. From U1 'The Sinister Secret
> of Saltmarch'
>
> A History of Nether by Lustair of Candlekeep
> -Written in 1207 Dale Reckoning this book presents a
> lurid, highly
> suspect account of the Nether Empire of Toril. It is
> often sought by
> spelljammers as the Netherese were among the
> earliest human states to
> attain spelljamming abilities. It sells for 500 gp
> or more.
> --
> "...And nobody is to be killed at all, if it can be
> helped. Keep your
> tempers and hold your hands until the last possible
> moment!"
> "But if there are many of these ruffians," said
> Merry, "it will
> certainly mean fighting. You won't rescue Lotho, or
> the Shire, just
> by being shocked and sad, my dear Frodo."
>
> Paul Westermeyer,  pwestermeyer@????????.??.com
>
>
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