Reading a library stat block

The libraries presented below Использование the following format.

Library Name: This is the name of the library, archive, book, or other repository of знание.

CR: This is the CR of the library, representing its complexity and the possible dangers found within it.

XP: This entry lists the experience points gained for reducing the library to 0 kp.

Complexity: This value is the DC of the Research check required to reduce the library’s kp.

Языки: This lists the Языки necessary to naviВрата the library without magical Помощь or Linguistic checks. If a library has multiple Языки, and the reseЛучник does not possess the ability to read all the listed Языки, she can still attempt checks, but for each Языка she doesn’t know, she takes a –2 penalty on Research checks.

Research Check: This entry lists the Навыки (usually Знание skills) that can be used to attempt Research checks. If a library allows untrained Знание checks due to the extensiveness of its collections, that is noted in this section as well.

Знание Bonus: This entry lists the bonus (if any) a library grants on specific Знание checks. This bonus applies to all of the Знание Навыки that can be used for Research checks in that library, and affects all such checks attempted by a character inside a library or изучение its contents, whether they are Research checks or single Знание checks.

kp: This entry lists the library’s maximum number of знание points.

Research Thresholds: These entries list a library’s research thresholds, and the specific piece of information learned at each threshold.

 

TOWN SAGE’S БЕЗРАССУДСТВАED STUDY

The town’s Мудрое has been missing for about a month. Not only do the various notes and tomes in his study contain Секреты about his hometown, but a careful search can also uncover clues as to his disappearance.

 

TOWN SAGE’S БЕЗРАССУДСТВАED STUDY CR 2

XP 600

Complexity 13 (easy)

Языки Common

Research Check Знание (краеведение) or Знание (природа);

Знание Bonus +0

kp 6

RESEARCH THRESHOLDS

kp 3 At low tide, a hidden entrance to underground caverns becomes visible beneath the town’s docks. According to a number of local legends, pirates hid their booty in the caves.

kp 1 The flower seller in the town square is the local priest’s illegitimate daughter. Given the priest’s vow of chastity, if this знание became public, he could lose respect among the townsfolk and likely his position as the town’s priest.

kp 0 The leader of the bandits in the woods outside town claims to be the deposed lord of the neighboring barony, and wants to raise an army to take back his title and lands. The sage’s notes indicate that he was planning on ищущее out this bandit lord and using his records to help prove the veracity of the claim.

 

ВОЛШЕБНИК’S СКРЫТНСТИ LIBRARY

With a cruel волшебник vanquished, the only clue to what kind of Опеки he has placed on his spellbook can be found in his Скрытнсти library. The library also holds other secrets.

 

ВОЛШЕБНИК’S СКРЫТНСТИ LIBRARY   CR 6

XP 2,400

Complexity 18 (easy)

Языки Common

Research Check Знание (arcana, untrained), Знание (планы), or Знание (религия);

Знание Bonus +2

kp 18

RESEARCH THRESHOLDS

kp 15 The волшебник’s spellbook is warded with a Огненная Ловушка.

kp 10 The password to bypass the spellbook’s Огненная Ловушка

is “everiss.”

kp 5 The ghost the волшебник keeps locked away in the tower can only be permanently destroyed if her wedding ring is returned to her descendants. The волшебник hid the wedding ring in his extraplanar stronghold.

kp 0 The elder xorn Gissijaak has a taste for garnets, and can be convinced to Проводник people to the волшебник’s extraplanar stronghold on the Plane of Земля if bribed with a particularly Крупный stone.

 

IMPERIAL СФЕРА ВОЙНЫ COLLEGE

While this Крупный collection of tracts, scrolls, schematics, and Битва plans tends to deal with military Стратегия and the building of fortifications, Секреты are hidden amid some of its more obscure works. These Секреты give some интуитивныйs into the hobgoblins massing on the borderlands of the duchy, plus the Судьба of a long-missing heirloom and a possible way to retrieve it.

 

IMPERIAL СФЕРА ВОЙНЫ COLLEGE CR 12

XP 19,200

Complexity 32 (Average)

Языки Common

Research Check Знание (engineering, untrained), Знание (история), or Профессия (soldier, untrained);

Знание Bonus +4

kp 36

RESEARCH THRESHOLDS

kp 30 Master Saval at the Hammer and Anvil believes that red hВоздух is a Благословениеing from the Lord of Battles, and frequently offers discounts on masterwork and enchanted Оружие to ginger-headed боецs.

kp 25 When the Duke of Gacy was slain in the Битва of a Hundred Spears, his legendary Щит, Bulwark, was never recovered. It is believed that the hobgoblins’ Сфера Войны chief, Klathuk the Merciless, took it as a trophy.

kp 15 Detailed blueprints illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of Fort Kallin. All of the bОрден forts on the northern frontier were built to the same plan.

kp 5 Scouting reports mention a Щит matching Bulwark’s description in the hands of a hobgoblin warlord currently gathering an army in the Yellow Hills. It’s rumored that this new Сфера Войны chief is either the descendant of Klathuk the Merciless or defited the aging warlord in battle.

kp 0 A secret postern Врата in the southeast wall of Castle Daminal provides access to the guard barracks. The castle fell to the hobgoblin warlord a month ago, and it’s believed he is using it as a base of operations.