Lich's Library

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The Lich's Library
A list of books which might be found in a Lich's Library, for 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons
Number Book Effect if any
1 1 Lich, 2 Lich, Dead Lich, New Lich
2 101 Blonde Jokes And there's only 96, but nobody can find the missing numbers. It's very confusing... DC15 WIS save or lose 1 INT
3 "101 Fun and Practical Things To Do With a Paladin" DC 20 Wis Sav or Alignment moves 1 degree towards CN
4 101 Unconventional (But Really Useful!) Uses For Mage Hand
5 50 Shades of Fae
6 50 Shades of Sune
7 9/10ths Of The Law: A Guide To Possession DC20 CHA immune to possession
8 A Beginner’s Guide to Necrophilia
9 A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking DC20 INT Add 1 spell slot. Level = d6+1
10 A Brown Note book. DC 25 CON (Makes any creature that open the book poop themselves.)
11 "A Guide to Long Term Investment Strategies, by Lazarus & Methusela." "DC 20 STR Cash value of Loot drop of your choice is doubled; must tell DM before treasure is announced"
12 A history of the bloodwar, as told by the deva Aernonaxch
13 A history of the Dead Three. DC 20 WIS or alignment moves 1 towards evil
14 A La Recherches de Temps Perdu
15 A lich and his bitch, a love story. But it’s mostly Stockholm syndrome love
16 A song of ice giants and fire elementals DC 30 INT resistance vs fire and cold
17 A treatise on multiversal theory: as it pertains to subatomic vibrations, and their relation to evocation and transmutation DC 20 INT one magic item gains/loses +/-1
18 "A treatise on the nature of the Weave from the Arcane University" DC 20 INT one magic item gains/loses +/-1
19 Advanced Transmutation of thin multi-weave materials - Mak Vang DC 20 INT one magic item gains/loses +/-1
20 Aerial Combat tactics - a treatise of combat with angelic allies DC 12 INT advantage on initiative with vs flying creatures
21 Along came a Lolth
22 Alpha Omega 1986 - a high school yearbook Gain Inspiration
23 "An Elementary Primer on Planar Transpositions, Vol. 3" DC 20 INT one rare magic item appears/disapears
24 An entire section of uncomfortable fetish porn
25 An Illithids Guide to Humans DC 12 INT +1 on saves vs Mind Flayers
26 An Immodest Proposal: The role of Beastshape in forelay DC 10 CHA +1 CHA checks while polymorphed
27 Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical, Anatomy of the Humanoid Body DC 10 INT to gain prof. on Medicine checks
28 Another entire section of a different uncomfortable fetish porn
29 Antagonizing Angels: A list of every way to upset a celestial. DC20 INT Know resistance/immunity/vulnerability/abilities of all Celestials
30 Aspects of Arcanum and Astral Algorithms DC 20 INT one rare magic item appears/disapears
31 Betty White: How I Do It Adds 20 years to expected lifespan
Number Book Effect if any
32 Bone thug soup, Murder Hobo sandwiches, A Hero’s Last Meal DC 15 WIS or -1 to initiative on fights you start.
33 Book of advanced magical traps and maiming DC 12 DEX Proficiency on slight of hand
34 "Botanical Bastardry: How To Poison Your Enemies" DC20 CON or 4d6 poison damage + poisoned 1 day or half
35 C-- and the Art of Skeleton Programming DC 12 WIS +1 to hit undead
36 Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss
37 "Charnel Touch, and the Best Ways to Touch Oneself" DC10 CHA +5 lay on hands
38 Chicken Soup for the Soulless DC 20 Wis or Lowers your Max hp by 2d10
39 Chilton: 1976 Ford Pinto DC20 CON, or gives vulnerability to fire
40 Corrupting Paladins: The most fun you can have w DC 20 Wis Sav or Alignment moves 1 degree towards CN
41 Crazy Lich Mazticans. DC 25 CHA doubles gp value of next loot drop
42 Criss-cross applesauce: and other funny sounding but incredibly dangerous spells DC 25 Arcana check. Cast any known spell using a spell slot 1 lower 1/long rest.
43 "Dark Shadows: A collection of short romance stories, mostly involving vampires and other undead." DC 15 WIS +1 to hit vampires
44 Dead And Loving It: A Necromancer’s Guide
45 Destruction and Recreation II, Binding souls to Flesh- Kalina Undertower
46 Devils Deeper Down: A fool’s guide to bargains
47 Dianetics, by L Ron Hubbard. - 1 wis, no save
48 Don’t fear the reaper DC 15 WIS Immune to fear vs undead & fiends
49 Dragons & Diners; Dungeons & Diners & Dives by Fly Gireri
50 Elminster’s guide to the dread planes and shadowfell Plane Shift spell
51 Erotic Art of the NecroSutra
52 "Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying: A First Geomancy Primer" DC 20 CHA one rare magic item appears/disapears
53 Evocation Calculus for the Very Advanced. Good luck reading it, but it allows you to maximize and reshape Fireball if you do. DC30 Arcana
54 From Hags To Riches: A Bastard’s Guide to Social Climbing DC 15 CHA Cash value of Loot drop of your choice is doubled; must tell DM before treasure is announced
55 Fundamentals of infernal pact law "DC20 INT Know resistance/immunity/vulnerability/abilities of all Devils"
56 Ghouls are from Greyhawk, Warlocks are from Wildmount
57 Giving Your Mummy The Bone DC 15 INT +1 melee damage vs mummies
58 Go Orc, Go!
59 Good luck Gives Inspiration
60 Granny Goodness's Big Book of Torture DC 12 CHA Proficiency on intimidation checks
61 Grave's Anatomy DC 10 INT to gain prof. on Medicine checks
62 Halflings and Ale: Things to Know DC 20 CON to have resistance to poison
63 Handbook for the Recently Deceased DC 12 WIS - the next time you drop to 0 hp, you drop to 1 instead.
Number Book Effect if any
64 Have a Heart, by Phyl L'Actery
65 Herbal Libations of the Elemental Planes DC 20 WIS to reroll any 1s on healing dice.
66 How I Did It: A Comprehensive Guide To Flesh Golems. V. Frankenstein
67 How the Lich Stole Christmas.
68 How to add a chill touch to your green thumb DC 12 WIS Gives Druids the Chill Touch cantrip
69 How To Become an Animal by Shaep Schiffter DC 20 CHA gain ability to polymorph self 1/week
70 How to cook and eat Lizardfolk, Dragonborn, and Kobolds: A cooks guide to preparing tasty meals from less than ideal places. DC 12 WIS +1 Survival
71 How to Influence Fiends and Possess Others. DC 12 CHA Advantage on controlling summoned demons
72 How to Make Friends & Influence People: A Practical Guide to Necromancy and Enchantment By Dale the Carnage Guy
73 How to say words good and do other stuff good too: A Barbarian’s Treatise on Negotiations DC 10 WIS Proficient in CHA for Barbarians
74 How to talk dirty and resurrect people. A paladin's guide to the blue arts DC20 WIS Gain Turn Undead as Cleric ½ your Paladin level
75 Humorous Accounting Anecdotes, Vol 3 DC 12 CHA Gives Sorcerers one additional spell slot
76 HVAC For Dummies DC 12 CON Gives +2 on poison saves
77 Igwilyv’s Demononicon (A Very Good Fake - radiates evil Abj, Conj, Necro, & Ench.)
78 Jonathan No Longer Livingston Seagull
79 "Kama Sutra for Zombies - Revised Edition, by S.X. Crimes" DC 15 INT +1 melee damage vs zombies
80 Keith & Betty: We're just getting started! Adds 20 years to expected lifespan
81 Keith Richards: The First 500 Years of Childhood. Adds 20 years to expected lifespan
82 L.I.L.F.s: Liches I’d like to Find
83 "Ladies Love Liches. A how to guide to love and lichdom."
84 Libra de mortis
85 Lich Hikers guide to the astral DC 12 INT +1 on initiatives vs aberrations
86 Lich man, poor man
87 Lichen is everywhere! mistakenly bought but surprisingly well read because lichen is just cool.
88 Lichen: the Lich’s guide to being a Fun Guy DC 20 INT +1 CHA
89 Liches and hoes: A gardeners guide
90 Liches Get Bitches: and other reasons to become undead
91 Life styles of the lich and dangerous
92 Limericks worthy of lynching your larynx DC 15 CHA Learn Tasha's Hideous Laugheter 1/day inate
93 Little Phlactery on the Prairie
94 Lord of the Rings DC 15 CHA 1 Luck point
95 Low-Down Dirty High Elves DC 15 CHA +1 intimidation vs elves
96 Making new friends: A beginners guide
97 Malenchantments of the Nethersphere DC 30 Arcana one very rare magic item appears/disappears
Number Book Effect if any
98 Manual of the Planes, Appendix. The Elemental Chaos, Reference Notes. The Necessity of the Abyss and the Stability of the Elemental Planes DC 15 WIS or alignment moves 1 toward CE
99 Men are from Limbo, Women are from Pandemonium DC 12 CHA Advantage on persuasion vs opposite sex
100 MLA Formatting in the Afterlife
101 "Multiaxial energetic release in a geomagnetic anomaly, study of energy transfer interference at the Tovag Baragu Stone Ring"
102 My last knight
103 Naked Elf Girls and Where to Find Them DC 15 CHA +1 persuasion vs elves
104 Necrocapitalism. Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
105 Necromancing the Stone
106 "Necromancy Puns That Will Make You Drop Dead Laughing" DC 15 CHA Learn Tasha's Hideous Laugheter 1/day inate
107 Necronomicon is just a very long list of names of dead people.
108 No No Bad Wolf: A training guide on domesticating werewolves. DC 12 CHA +1 on attacks vs lycanthropes.
109 Nominomicom DC 15 WIS Proficiency with chef's tools
110 Of Orcs and Elves
111 on the extrapolations of the humanoid will by the arcane forces of the necromantic realm DC 20 INT +1 damage per die on spells that do necrotic damage
112 "On the use of extra dimensional equipment to coerce the soul from sapient creatures - Kwalish"
113 "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme, and other herbal treatments to ward of those old dusty, musty, or new-dead smells. Scarbourough Fair Publishing, Grenwich Village."
114 Passions of Lust & Bone Dust
115 Planar Parties: Every major holiday for each plane of existence
116 Playghoul - 232 years of monthly issues
117 Poor Lich’s Almanac.
118 Practices for Preserving Privates After Passing-On DC 15 WIS to gain 10 max HP
119 Praise The North - General Tober Morrow
120 Raising the Dead - an Erotic Novel (self published)
121 Raistlin's theory of higher Magic’s
122 Read the Fine Print by Eul A. Deamon DC 15 CHA +1 persuasion vs Devils
123 Red Wizard of Oz
124 Reduce, reuse, reanimate: a guide to ethical necromancy
125 Resting lich face; coping skills and junk. DC 15 CHA +1 CHA
126 Return of the Walking Dead
127 Rocks aren’t that hard’ A Guide by Dwarven Stonemasons DC 12 WIS advantage on attacks vs earth elementals
128 Rotting Away: The Thoughtful Guide to Maintaining Your Material Body DC 20 WIS to gain 10 max HP
129 Satisfactory Phylacteries
Number Book Effect if any
130 Sautéed, simmered, and stewed: A cookbook for Souls. DC 15 WIS Able to carry 2 extra Soul Coins
131 Smashy, Smashy, Smash. A practical guide to living with the Barbarian in your life DC 12 WIS +1 on charisma checks with barbarians
132 Snow Dwarf and the Seven Wights
133 Snow Dwarf and the Seven Wights(naughty version)
134 So, you want live forever. A step by step guide to becoming a Lich. By Vecna DC 25 WIS Resistance to Necrotic
135 Spengler's Spirit Guide "DC20 INT Know resistance/immunity/vulnerability/abilities of incorporeal monsters"
136 Spiders as Agents of Menzoberranzan - Khelben Blackstaff
137 Stayin alive, by B.Gee
138 Tactical Studies Rules 1980 Catalog DC 15 DEX advantage on next attack
139 Tasha and Volo's Compendium of Erotic Poetry
140 The Art of Self Preservation: An Embalmers Journey
141 The Art of the Deal Being used to level a table leg (-1wis if read, no save)
142 "The Big Little Book of Death and Dismemberment"
143 The Book of Pages
144 the collected daydreams of the peasants of Avingford DC 12 WIS proficient in insight
145 The Complete Beginners Guide to Bonsai Cultivation DC 12 INT Proficiency on survival
146 "The Dærknêss: a guide to The Things that go bump in the night" DC 12 WIS advantage on initiative vs aberrations
147 The dragon with the girl tattoo
148 The Dream Journal of Doctor Lo A collection of weird and highly symbolic dreams that seem to contain worrying prophecies. While it purports to be the work of one forgotten archmage, each page is written in a different hand, language, and style. Some of the dreams are eerily similar to dreams experienced by the reader in the past.
149 The Ethics of Phylacteries: A Look Into the First Steps of Lichdom
150 The Fall of the Netherese Empire.
151 The Githyanki, or Children of Gith, "Survivors of Enslavement by the Vile Illithid (More Commonly Known As Mind Flayers), In the Vast Depths of the Astral Plane. Ruthless Pillagers? Or Guardians of the Multiverse from the Illithid Menace?"
Number Book Effect if any
152 The Griffon, the Warlock, and the Armoire
153 The Hitch Hikers guide to Sigil: The city of doors
154 The Illithiad. It's the Illiad, but the protagonists are all Illithids
155 The Laws and Principles of Transmutation
156 "The lich and the unicorn. A collection of bone on horn erotica fan fiction."
157 The Lich Queen: A biography of the first Karen. DC 15 CHA Proficiency on intimidation checks
158 The Liches of Eastwick
159 The Lion, the Lich and the Wardrobe.
160 The Lusty Argonian Maid
161 The Necromancer's Knickers
162 The Necronomicon of Sex: Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't have a Sex Life
163 "The Secret Debaucheries of Elminster, by Volothamp Geddarm."
164 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Necromancers DC20 INT to gain/lose 10 Max HP permanently
165 The Seven Year Lich DC15 CON or infected with undead crabs. Poisoned. greater restoration to heal
166 The Thousand Exortations of Lum the Mad DC 15 WIS or -1 INT
167 The tome of infinite knowledge. The cover is made of tanned human skin and the inside contains several yellowing pages that are all blank, Except for the first page which reads “Knowledge is power and power corrupts.” The players may ask any question about anything by writing it on one of the pages. They receive the answer but also receive a permanent minus one to their wisdom score.
168 The Unlife of Pi
169 Theory of ethical cohesion between lower perpendicular outer planes - Alistair McMahnus DC 15 INT +1 on melee damage vs fiends
170 Theory of Forces Vitae and Thaumatugical Applications DC 15 CHA Thaumaturgy Cantrip
171 Think lich, grow lich
172 Toppling Kingdoms For Fun & Profit
173 Torm and his Women
174 Trapped Books for dummies (of course its a trap) DC 20 DEX or 4d10 necrotic
175 Treasure down under DC15 CON or infected with undead crabs. Poisoned. greater restoration to heal
176 Tricky Traps by Gobber Goblin DC 20 DEX or 4d10 slashing
Number Book Effect if any
177 Twilight DC 12 INT or -1 on attacks vs vampires
178 Undeath or Unlife: A Philosophical Discussion DC 15 WIS resistance to undead melee damage
179 V for Vecna DC 20 WIS or lose 1 CHA permanently due to scabs forming on your face, in 1d4 days the scabs fall away, leaving scars.
180 Wait! Someone’s watching!?!? DC15 WIS +1 passive perception
181 What Acererak Did Wrong A scathing commentary and biography of the demi-lich, critiquing each of his world-ending schemes and why they went wrong
182 What To Expect When You're Expiring DC 20 CON or lose 10 Max HP
183 What to expect when your expecting adventurers. DC 15 DEX or -1 on initiatives
184 What's in a Gnome: An In-depth Guide to the Anatomy of Svirfneblin and their Alchemical Applications
185 Where the Red mold grows DC 20 CON save or lose 10 HP until next long rest.
186 Where's Mimic? "It is a mimic, it attacks with surprise, unless PC checks to see if it is a mimic."
187 "Where's Waldo: The Life and times and Mysterious disappearance of Waldo P Walthamstow" DC 15 WIS Proficiency on Investigation Checks
188 Withering Heights
189 Working in Small Infinities, Advanced probability manipulation
190 Ye olde booke of Demonic True Names DC20 INT Know resistance/immunity/vulnerability of all Demons
191 You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter A mpa showing location of all traps in the dungeon
192 Zen and the Art of Mordenkainen's Maintenance DC 15 CHA If you meet Mordenkainen, you have advantage on all social checks.
193 "Zolar's Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge"

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