[PF2e Gamemastery] Book Item Template

Polishing the “interesting non-magical book” concept

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You might have seen my Chronicles of a Killer book item before. I liked the idea a lot (and a lot of other people did it seems), so I’m planning on making more!

In the meantime and so you can make more as well, here’s an improved template for Book Items, as well as an example further below :

Book Template, for non-magical book items of average level 3 to 5 (statblock)

This is made for items of level 3 to 5, althought making lower or higher level is entirely possible, I just used existing items as reference for the level and price. Hard to say what a very-low level book would have as a mechanical effect, and a very-high level book could simply reflect an extremely rare or unique copy, or extremely powerful information.

Of course, while this is made for non-magical books (the original motivation behind this), nothing is stopping you from using this template for magical books as well, although the additonal magical effects would probably increase the level and price.

And as an example, here’s an updated version of the “Chronicles of a Killer” item that follows the template :

Chronicles of a Killer, Item (book) level 3 (statblock)