How to Be an Adventurer was a huge enchanted book that collected numerous tomes about adventuring in one binding.[2]
Content[]
How to Be an Adventurer was an obnoxiously large and heavy book, self-described as an extensive manual dedicated to the "fine art of adventuring." It compiled eighty volumes and chapters with colorful names. Some of which included:[2]
- Henchmen: Loyal Companions or Seedy Pack-Mules?
- Making Your Kit Work for You
- 101 Uses for a 10' Pole
- Catapults: Yes, That's as Far as It Shoots
- Getting the Most Out of Your Party's Thief
- Today's Tinderbox – It's Not Just for Lighting Torches Anymore
- Dungeons to Tackle:
- Dungeons to Avoid Like the Crotch-Rot:
- The Iron Fortress of Blodax, Devourer of Souls
- Dominara the Erinyes' Nine-Layered Brothel of Violent Emasculation (No Slaking... or Slating... allowed)
- The Crimson Hell-Pit of One Billion Miserable Deaths
- Uncle Fralin's Bedroom
- ..and more!
- Your Lantern and You
- Twelve Uses for Twelve Iron Spikes
- 99 Uses for That Little Hammer That Comes with Twelve Iron Spikes
- Face It, You're Actually "Neutral Evil"
- The King's Lovely Daughter: Look But Don't Touch
- Don't Put Your Hand in That Dark Hole
Other chapters covered such topics as supply hoarding, spell-casting, brave heroism, and cowardly retreats.[2]
Powers[]
A person who had the commitment to read through the entire book immediately gained all the benefit of a massive amount of knowledge and experience equal to years of hard adventuring work. How to Be an Adventurer disappeared from the possession of its owner once the entire volume was read.[2]
History[]
In the Year of the Griffon, 1312 DR, How to Be an Adventurer was owned by the library of the Black Raven Monastery, hidden in the mountains above the Ice Lakes and the Black Raven River.[2]
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References[]
- ↑ Black Isle Studios (June 2000). Designed by Matt Norton. Icewind Dale. Interplay.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Black Isle Studios (August 2002). Designed by J.E. Sawyer. Icewind Dale II. Interplay.