The book would draw power from its readers to fuel whatever abilities it had. The one that really struck me was the idea of a vampiric book that feeds on the reader. They suggested that an evil book would need arcane abilities, so it wasn't merely a lump of paper vulnerable to all the usual things. This was the stage where I got drawn into AncientHistory's thread that started all this waffling. But sometimes it's not about what you do to evil books, but about what the evil books do to you. So far I've blathered about how people get their hands on such books in the first place, and the effects of their dreadful contents on tiny human minds.
#CALL OF CTHULHU LEVIATHAN SPEECH CHOICE SERIES#
Part of a continuing series of uncertain length on Tomes of Unspeakable Evil and the PCs who love them. What ordinary, everyday, harmless features of human life would be perceived as deadly hazards by hypothetical alien PCs? In-game, you're probably going to be looking at non-human things that threaten humans, but I think it might be easier to spot potential hazards by flipping it. I suggested "showers designed for acid-based beings that find any world with liquid water uncomfortably chilly" and "persistent spells for healing treants that have disastrous effects on human anatomy" before, and that seems like a good place to start. These are things that not only aren't designed as traps, but aren't even perceived as hazards. I'm going to start by looking at entirely unintentional traps.
#CALL OF CTHULHU LEVIATHAN SPEECH CHOICE FREE#
I've got a few free minutes and don't feel like writing anything too brain-intensive right now, so I thought I might muse on that for a while. Way back in my first Trappery post, I briefly mentioned the idea of accidental traps: things that aren't supposed to be traps, but nevertheless present a danger to PCs that corresponds very closely to traditional traps.
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