A manual of gainful exercise was a magical book that contained exercises and enchantments designed to supernaturally increase its reader's strength.[1]
Description[]
Manuals of gainful exercise were thick books that contained fitness exercises and diet suggestions.[1][2]
Powers[]
Charged within the book's words was a powerful magical enchantment. If the reader completed the book within a period of 6 days, an activity that required a total of 48 hours of reading, the reader was endowed with a substantial improvement to physical might, including the ability to further extend it beyond natural capabilities.[1][2]
Once the book was fully read, it spent its magical power and became an ordinary book.[2] However, the book recharged its power after one century.[1]
Notable Owners[]
The githyanki knight Al'chaia, who led a detachment of githyanki inhabiting Stardock in the Year of Three Ships Sailing, 1492 DR,[note 1] owned a manual of gainful exercise and a tome of clear thought that she had falsely promised to share with her most accomplished soldiers.[3]
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- ↑ Canon material does not provide a year for the events described in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, but Christopher Perkins answered a question via Twitter and stated the year was 1492 DR. Corroborating this, Dragon Heist page 20 refers to events of Death Masks (set in 1491 DR) as being "last year". Unless a canon source contradicts this assertion, this wiki will use 1492 DR for events related to this sourcebook and Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage (which is referenced on pages 5 and 98 of Dragon Heist).
Appearances[]
- Adventures
- Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
- Video Games
- Dungeon Hack • Baldur's Gate
External Links[]
Manual of Gainful Exercise article at the Baldur's Gate Wiki, a wiki for the Baldur's Gate games.- D&D Beyond
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins, James Wyatt (December 2014). Dungeon Master's Guide 5th edition. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 180. ISBN 978-0-7869-6562-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams (July 2003). Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 262. ISBN 0-7869-2889-1.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins (November 2018). Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage. Edited by Jeremy Crawford. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 209–210. ISBN 978-0-7869-6626-4.