I had an idea for a campaign where the villain’s ultimate plan is to ‘reboot’ the multiverse in an effort to create a temporary state where there is no existence, and hence no good or evil, with the intension of destroying the Book in that moment. they would have to commit evil deeds to keep the book. The players would uncover their effort to destroy the multiverse fairly early on but not realize their motivation until the end and be forced to decide if they want to help them or stop them.

I've reimagined it as a music composition book currently in the hands of a pixie bard. She used it to write great symphonies on the nature of evil and, consequently, become corrupted to the point of lichdom. As the players pursue her to stop her greatest composition, each adventure is themed with the music of her evolution, so that as they progress they learn more and more about the pixie villain and she is an ever present force defining the world around them.

If you have the true name of a demon, devil, demon prince, all of those, you have complete control of it. Check the monster manual.

Once I was playing a half-orc barbarian in a Pathfinder game (it was my first ever time playing a tabletop game so I kept it simple), and we were having particularly difficult time interrogating a lone guard after we had killed his comrades. This guard was in the service of a villain, and we were all either neutral or good of some variety. I was chaotic good at the time. Finally, after an hour and a half of trying to get answers, I had had enough. I had my character grab the top half of a dead guard I had bisected on an earlier critical hit, shoved my arm deep into his torso, and decided to make a diplomacy check by using the guard's corpse as a hand puppet and doing a funny voice, saying things like "Come on, buddy, you can tell me! I'm your friend!" He vomited, pissed himself, and passed out from sheer terror. On my diplomacy check. Needless to say, despite our monk and wizard finding it hilarious, our paladin went from mortified to furious. The DM changed my alignment to chaotic neutral, and that if I ever did something like that again, he would make me chaotic evil , meaning the paladin and I would have to fight each other. Thankfully the wizard owed me a favor since I had saved him from drowning earlier in the campaign, and was the only one to try.

Destroyed a game I played in sometime ago... contained the spell Necromancer's Ultimate Killing Enchantment which the bearer cast on a creature we were in melee with... the initials of the spell should have been a clue to the effect... wiped out the party and the city, and a fair portion of the surrounding countryside!!!

I was listening to this video and it gave me the idea for an evil campaign where yes a warlock found the book and it became his patron but in addition to that it gave him a compulsion to gather certain materials and as time progressed he was building a body out of the materials where the books essence would transfer and it'd become a new dark god

Once got the Book of Vile Darkness as a quest reward. Best. God dammed. Reward. Ever. I became a fucking Lich Pirate King (we took over a city and then set sail again). I also used it as a buckler shield because it was basically indestructible. Ah, good times. We all got legendary magic items, and my DM at the time knew *exactly* what to give me. Man, I miss that campaign

I wished the Book of Vile Darkness into the future where all things have ended.

I was actually looking for ideas for an evil campaign and you guys just game me a brilliant one! Sweet!

Sent here from your short. Great idea to highlight some old videos us new viewers missed!

Your idea about a blood based sorcerer immediately made me think of Deadman Wonderland.

As a necromancer, set up shop in a town that is a restaurant front. Over several years perfect your recipe for BBQ boneless chicken that the whole town loves, all the while using raise skeleton to seperated the chickens from the flesh that is the want of the region for it's awesome taste. The skeletons are stored in the deep basement of the establishment. Then when ready unleash a massive swarm of chicken skeletons to overrun and destroy the town.

Nerdarchy I just have to share probably the most entertaining hour of DnD from a single piece of loot. It is the "Deck of Many Things". I gave this loot to a level 18 group that was in the process of doing a quest for Bahamut, after finishing "The Rise of Tiamat" yada yada. So here's what happened: They decided to pull a card, and the first card pulled was The Void, that character going limp as his soul is transferred away. They thought, ok, we'll just go save him, and kept pulling cards. After a good half hour of random gambling for good cards, many various good and bad things happened, including the paladin gaining a level, and the fighter loosing 6 Int, or something like that. Eventually another person pulls the Void. Now the party is worried they can't actually retrieve people. So looking at the possible things they could get from the deck, they decided that the remaining players will pull cards until they get the wish spell, and as a result, wish that they never found the deck in the first place. Player after player pulled cards until they got either the void, or the moon (wishes). And as a result, player after player kept going into the void. Until the final character was left, and if he didn't pull the wish, then basically their campaign is over. He got down to 3 cards left, the void, moon, and something else.. when he finally pulled the wish. Ohhhh the cheers that went up. This is by far one of the most evil items you could possibly give characters. Everyone in the campaign, including me, will instantly look to sell this deck if I ever found one in a future campaign. :p

steal a kid's toy? what is this? "Kindness & Dragons?" have a friend cast enlarge on the toy, then you animate with instructions to murder little Billy while you laugh and pee on him. Then maybe cook him, put him in a pie, cast Prestidigtation on it as you knock on the mom's door disguised as a new neighbor. You both have coffee and Billy Pie. When she finishes what tasted like a wonderful dessert from a kindly neighnor, you break out the big guns and throw her the reveal. Drop the tastey spell, remove tour disguise, splash your coffee in her face, tell her she is eating her medium rare child, chew with your mouth open, laigh manicallly, and animate the pie crust to dance around like an undead blueberry pie kid. NOOWWWW you're evil.

I homebrewed about 40 pages of this thing together, translating to about 300 in game. I wasn’t intending on giving it to them, but I did give them the deck of many things. They pulled a card stating that they received a magic item of the dms choosing. I believe that the deck should be truly random, so I rolled for the page number and rolled for the item on that page. Book of vile darkness. They’re so terrified of it because one of the members knew exactly what it was and now they’re like “we’re 6 random dudes running around with the ‘Evil Mage Manifesto’ what the hell do we do?”

I gave the book to dracolich in my current game and hes using it to find the location of the Vecnas artifacts. The players dont know about that yet though, im assuming the necro in the party will probably want those for himself and then ill have a new bad guy!

Love these little brainstorming sessions! Keep up the great work guys!

Y'all should do the Book of Exalted Deeds next. Maybe even include an honorable mention of the 3.5e book?

True names are better explained in the monster manual (p53), where it says you have some manner of control over any who's true name you know, but if you wanted you could go all out and say it grants absolute power over the demon, whatever serves your story

Thanks for answering my question! You guys are the best!

Final session of the campaign I was in, I ended up obtaining the book (dm made it so only an evil character can attune to it - I was the the only one, being a Chaotic Evil character). Epilogue comes around, and I decide to play the whole “one vile act every 10 days” and “no willing good acts” deal, all while I get powerful enough to take out that entity of great evil that would claim my soul, and take its place. Considering my character is one of those CE characters who isn’t crazy or insane, having her show up in the dm’s planned sequel campaign (as an NPC) will be interesting. Especially since I will be providing some of the ideas for how far from grace she will fall to reach her goal.

What about a deathward type spell.... the innocent persons soul is put in phylactery and on your death you switch spaces with his soul. Or you can make the person through a ritual you death by proxy... when you die ... he dies for you....

The book + the eye and Hand of Vecna and you'd have a dark god. xD

Aw for a minute I was very excited because I thought they had back the "book of vile darkness" rule book.

One idea that could be the basis for the remainder of the campaign is having the Book Of Vile Darkness outline the path to Godhood. That would be an EVEN better reason for an evil deity to want it out of your hands, no new competition.

In the homebrew campaign I am running, the lore was built on the premise of "Words have power, some more so than others", so much so to achieve divinity you must have enough worshippers to become ascended by thevpower of their words. So true names have truly immense power in this world, I might have to use this book to see if the players indulge in it.

watching this, i now have a fun campaign idea where the main bad guy has had the book for 95 years or so and plans on whipping out all evil with it but hasnt told anyone this entire time. and the players think this is just some big bad that needed to be defeated but because they did so evil is still left in the world. were as if they wouldnt have done anything for those five years the world would be peaceful

Great substance and info guys. I will say that this episode was helped by the Heavy Breather heard In this...

The awesome potential of using the in-character book-item itself aside (which I think you guys covered briefly, but quite well in the video), not many other things I have come across are as clear-cut bad, and disturbingly awful as the enemies you can easily come up with for a mostly-good party using TBoVD. I have read through it a few times (the supplement ;) not the real book), at the start of a pass-the-DM-hat 3.5 game, just to get some ideas etc. Then during that game it was definitely inspiring for me, and at least one other player/DM, as we both used some content from it, and I know that I personally even began creating some slightly modified villains using stuff from the book, including a totally custom-made arch-nemesis style boss-like villain which I was inspired to create for our campaign, plus some modified encounter locations using stuff from the supplement. For someone like myself, who generally has no trouble coming up with ideas of all kinds, and is not easily surprised or grossed out, it was pretty impressive as a strong source of horror, evil, nausea and the like. ;)

Correct me if I'm wrong. the "book of exhaled deeds" states that once you do evil you lose All benefits. The "book of vile darkness" doesn't say but has conditions like being attuned, and having it on you. Assuming you do good and it disappears, do you keep "adjusted ability scores", "mark of darkness" as well as benefits and detriments not related to being attuned or having it on you? On that note I assume you become un-attuned once you lose either book, right? I can't find a ruling but I'm pretty sure.

never knew about this book before this video, but now that I do think I'm gonna use it in my custom as a means for the villian to summon Vecna to walk upon the earth once more

My Warlock/Philospher God of Death is the most evil magic item in D&D! He eats Books of Vile Darkness for breakfast!

I'm currently playing an evil cleric on a quest for immortality for himself and his cult, this item would be amazing for him to find, he could find it and find out the ritual to lichdom or even assention and then spend the campaign trying to get the 7 or 8 components together for said ritual, it would be a great narrative motivation and the further my cleric goes the harder they are to get, like they could start out with something like a basilisk heart, then a bone devil skull all the way up too like a jar of Tarrasque blood or an already existing lich's phylactery, it could be the over arching goal of his campaign

One of my favorite Evil moments, preamble, Pathfinder, Skulls n Shackles, Me NE wiz. We had been lacking of ship raids of late and finally hit a small vessel but was only a fishing ship, a Father and Son on board, my weak captain got talked down from taking his whole catch to a day worth for our crew and tossing his few coins into the sea for Besmara, the sea goddess. So I being evil and annoyed wait till they are just about out of range... Then Phantasmal killer, on the father, a distant pain scream carried over the waves PAPA NOOOO!!!!! >:Dc This act may have helped me get my Imp familiar later on. Later i was going to sac the whole port city to get Lichdom+ but our game slowed to a craw a few levels b4 that happened. I also hired on a cockney young lad as our cabin boy,,, just to use as my catalyst for the grand blood sacrifice. Was in the steps to endear him to me and the rest of the crew. Ahhhh Evilllllll So good.

I think a chaotic neutral could pull off an evil act every ten days for one hundred years and not slip into evil.

This made me think of a magic welding politician with the "unforeseen" consequences. Vice-President Boromir if you will.

I had an artifact book I home-brewed when I was 16 (1988), The Codex of Entropic Evil. It was similar in many ways but not nearly as interesting. It could be used as a library for researching vile spells, researching abominable states of being (undead, golem, horrible mutations, etc and a mix of them), used as a traveling spellbook (all spells the holder knows are in it), used in place of any unholy (evil holy) item, find answers to "absolute truths" (evil insights, commune with chaotic evil itself), and provide the reader immunity to control from non-evil non-chaotic beings. The book is easy to destroy but it reforms instantly somewhere within the possession of the owner. If the owner dies (for good), it reforms within the possession of a chaotic evil god until that god gives it to a being that serves it who can use it. Anyone not chaotic evil reading it must choose, either become chaotic evil or disintegrate. They get a save to avoid the choice if they immediately stop reading it. If they passed the save, they still must save twice, once on the Law-Chaos axis, next on the good-evil axis. Failure causes a shift one degree towards Chaotic and-or Evil. If the previous owner was a "walking mockery of life" (undead, golem, mutation, magi-tech cyborg, undead mechanical hybrid, etc) the reader must save against becoming a similar "mockery of life"... the reader can fail the save on purpose if he wants to become that. This is just a summary of the Codex of Entropic Evil. It is the dark counterpart to the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom.

The Book of Vile Darkness reminds me of my doctoral dissertation :)

I gave my characters the book of vile darkness at lvl 5. They turned it to the priesthood of my world. What they do not know... it one of the priests is actually working for a cabal of necromancers, and is reading the book in his spare time, trying to learn its secrets.

Good stuff. Liked and subbed.

I ran a campaign where the book was reforming by having individual pages appear to evil individuals around the world. Our evil Druid had found the empty book cover, and was slowly collecting the pages over the extent of the campaign. Sadly, he lost it in a bad deal with a devil. Either way, he was still searching for the pages, and had quite a few before the campaign ended. The party would have loved for him to still have it in the last stages of the story. Someday I hope to have some storyline that would return it to the party, but they were level 17 at that point. We all decided to put those characters to rest

I was introduced to the book of vile darkness in 4th edition and the related movie.

Once I was in an evil campaign. We were all evil and we all were working together to gain as much power as possible. We had found the book when we went to another dimension that had a powerful vampire lord. We bought it, and when the rogue opened it, he became insane and got 4 extra personalities. Then the vampire lord started searching for us, and we ran into a house so that he can't enter(We wouldn't give him permission). The house belonged to 3 hags. We were level 3. We all died.

My character ended up getting this book after we completed a dungeon. I managed getting the 1d6 Regeneration, +1 armor class, 3rd Level spellcasts, and I am immune to disease now. However all Holy water within 10 feet of me is destroyed, all non magical flame within 30 feet of me is put out, I can no longer speak, and I have a disadvantage to poison. My DM realized how game changing this would be, and I can occasionally become possessed as well and turn into a monster, by god this is gonna be fun.

When you started talking about having to sacrifice a goodly soul, I instantly thought of Shadow of the Colossus Wander had to sacrifice 16 colossi in order to bring back his love interest. But even in doing so damned his own soul.

The book of vile darkness is pretty neat in 3.5 too, it contains all the torture rules and some cool classes.

I'm distracted. Where did the guy on the left get his shirt? It makes me think of a starfleet uniform.

I really like magic items with lore.. ♡.♡ I believe the most fun thing to do to a magic item (even if it's 'just' a dagger +1) is to always give it a lore!~ But yeah, this book.. is really nice. I would love to make a campaign about it xD I'm wondering something! If I were to add the true name of a fiend into my world, like a note by a long-dead cleric... And it would be in infernal: does it count as its true name only when you're able to speak infernal/speak it out in infernal (some names might include words that would be translated into a different language)

My favorite spell ive seen made by this book was one for mass sacrifice for power, though it was so evil because of how bad it worked. Something like this "deal 4 necrotic damage to all creatures in a 5 mile radius. For every creature killed this way gain 1 experiance" commoners only have 4 hp, so doing this in a town would get you maybe one level, but kill everyone

We don't have the Book of Vile Darkness in our campaign, but the party has a book made of human flesh. It has the power to grant 10th level spells. You have to be to cast spells of that level, and have access to a wish spell to use. If not you when you try to read it, you go insane. We have not look at it beyond the covers.

Good Idea for a campaign incoming! Basically a half mystery and half quest where in the town of 'example town' the players suddenly have a bad case of demons popping out of no where. They have to figure out why these demons are appearing (I.e the book) ,who has the book (I.e main villain), and how too stop them before the villain decided to be serious and summon one of the abyssal lords to end to the world! :D (P.s keep up the good work guys!)

I had a person in the past of my campaign who knew all the languages at the time but is hidden by history. The party has been obtaining pages of his notes to learn more about the world from that past viewpoint. I had looked through magic items in DMG and noticed that the Book of Vile Darkness had a language that only those who attune to it can read and write. So, obviously it had to be in that person's hands at one point in past. My players were around level 6-8 when i found it, but wanted to make it work out before i forgot it. So gave them a page of it to attune to and said there doesn't seem to be any detrimental effect despite the evil aura and the high magic radiating from it. Plan being someone will attune to it to read the notes they just obtained, and shortly afterward they'll lose attunement to it because someone elsewhere attuned to the book, which according to the DMG makes all the loose pages return to the book. Thus adding flavor, doesn't unnaturally change characters when the party is already showing cracks in their cohesion, and seeds future events. The Wizard is good aligned but attuned to it and read page. No detriments given by me. learned a few fiend names, but is busy with a highly racist elf city (the capital in fact) in elven country and trying to get a pirate captain freed because in his past made friends with that pirate crew for the year or two they kidnapped/took care of him. The wizard has figured out that he can't lie (cha dump stat, constantly rolls low in deception). So after obtaining the right to settle a dispute in the council in his favor, while disguised as an Elf, wizard reveals he's actually human and most of his party aren't elves, getting them all sent to prison. But he is brought before the council to get his dispute over with. Instead of using it to free pirate captain he instead debates and tries to force this ability to be use to repeal law banning members of other races into the capital city. One argument was basically more people to share knowledge with and develop new magic. Thanks to someone else's plot point, and earlier rolls basically deciding he knows the laws of this country, he ends up taking up charges of pirate captain and is sentenced to be executed. The rest of party develop a plan to rescue wizard right before his execution, break into a prison to free an NPC they have family ties to, and break into the high security prison the wizard was held but a few hours ago to retrieve most of his stuff. The wizard deciding that this could potentially negate the ruling he forced the city council to make began leaving notes in these places stating it was some elven rebellion that was starting, potentially destabilizing the elves' country, definitely their capital city. Missing items from his stuff: money, gems, ores (including quite a bit that make elves sick from like 5-6 sessions ago), notes, and the page of vile darkness. After that session, the player talked to me in private and was like "yeah, so I don't think my wizard is good. Debatable whether he's evil or not, but I don't think he's good anymore." tl;dr- good aligned wizard attuned to page of vile darkness with no DM made detriment to himself, attempted to do something he considered good because his goal is to develop new magic, commits a bunch of evil or at least morally ambiguous acts in attempt to keep his change active while saving his life, player at end of session decided his wizard isn't good anymore. Sometimes the players will just accidentally activate detrimental effects of items or concepts when you add it in purely to add flavor to something and seed future events with it.

I have a plan for a rogue/warlock in 3.5 that was an evil pixie. The pixie started as a good rogue that tried to still a "Hand of the mage." The pixie was trapped by the demon that the item belonged to and tortured the pixie to turn it evil finally making the pixie then became warlock of that demon. now the pixie hates all life and would enjoy that book. i could see her killing everything it saw so much that killing people would no longer feel like an evil enough act any more lol. My DM has already said no way will the pixie get that book.

I think this would be a fun thing to throw into Avernus. Give it to a corrupted LE Wizard. Now he wants to replace Asmodeous by corrupting an army of Paladins, Devas, Planetars, and Solars to follow him. The goal is always to corrupt these people so any good acts are unfortunate side effects of the corruption process. As a side job you recruit Soldiers to fight under you and your Planetar/Solar Generals and Deva/Paladin Captains. Have one of the Unique spells be a variant on suggestion, lets call it Seed of Corruption, the seed of corruption has been sown, it requires a Wisdom Check(the magic has a subtle masking to it) against the Caster's DC on on each turn roll a Wisdom Check it you fail 3 checks you are now corrupted, your Alignment changes to match the Caster and you subtract your Profiency to all rolls that would oppose the wishes of the caster. If you make 3 successes you overcome the seed of corruption. The seed remains in you but dormant for 7 days and you are vulnerable to its effects. If seed of corruption is used against you again each dormant seed present increases the check DC by 1. You can only remove one dormant seed of Corruption with a 9th lvl protection from Evil and Good. An active corruption can only be removed by a Wish. Divine Intervention has no effect on seed of Corruption. It is Complicated mainly to allow any PCs to have a chance to overcome it but for the Celestials It should be fairly straightforward. It might even negate a total derailment of the campaign if done carefully.

So when you finish a campaign and the table wants an encore.

You can have an infinite _simulacrum_ loop to constantly monitor and _modify memory_ you so that you continue your task for all that time. Once you are done, _modify memory_ away all of your evil.

apparently I watched this one before. oh well, watched it again and coming way late at this. however, I gotta say that changing your alignment is INCREDIBLY evil. It was dismissed in the video but think about it. You've been lugging this book around for months committing unspeakable evil acts. Now the law is hot on your heels. You suddenly were turned lawful good. The book abandons you and leaves you to your fate with the local authorities who have been hunting you down and left you in a state where you probably won't fight back, essentially helpless. Now it's off to find another life to ruin.

how would one make theyre char a lich or death knight , is there a actual class for this or do we have to homebrew it or what

I don't have a DMG for 5E yet. Is there an equivalent item for Good?

now, to convince my DM to do the following: -give my LG paladin a quest to escort this book someplace. -have his split personality (CE Cleric) take the book. -summon literally every demon in the book

The Book of Vile Darkness is the McGuffin in a game I've written for my players. It is the source of power for the primary antagonist but really isn't all that important as an aspect of the game. It's just there to explain why things can happen. But the book itself is an incredibly interesting item and I plan of using it more actively in the future.

Might as well combine a Carsomir with a Robe of Vekna :)) and see if the internet explodes :P

If you must eliminate all evil from the multiverse, how would you go about eliminating Orcus? Soth? The Old Ones? I think a work around would be to attach a ruin of location on the book that can only be detected by a "monocle of finding" and hand that over to a solar, so at their option, they can find the book and tare it in two every hundred years or so.

A devil lord/evil deity would definitely use the book of vile darkness maybe it has evil knowledge that the evil patron doesn't.

My DM decided the book of vile of darkness was an item we needed to stop from falling into evil hands, it ended up with the party’s home town being sieged for many nights by drow, we failed to protect the book and now there are rumours of the drow being able to come to the surface! Was a really fun and game changing item, especially considering the party consists of purely Elves and half elves. We ended up killing multiple members of a high level drow family and now we’re always on the run but hey!

My DM gave me the true name of orcas the problem with that is he doesn't have any stats so his Christmas could be anything including a autosuccess unless you roll a 1

I actually used this book for a villian. A previously allied warlock showed his hand as wanting to merge his bound demonic tomb with the book. And after almost killing the party he enacted the tomb merging ritual and they had to stop this beyond epic level warlock super charged by the Book.

I acutally let one my players get there hands on the book one time and they did the most crazy thing possible with it, that i never saw coming. as the campaign was coming to a close they created a spell using the book that let them rewrite a single artifact at the cost of there life and got to send the artifact to another plane, as he described it he worked for his last remaining 400 elf years doing the evil deads while creating this spell and before his death he used the spell and used it on the book of vile darkness to transform it into ** The book of Pure Soul** He transformed the book into a pure celestrial style version and the next campaign we ran was a War Campaign and there new charcters was fighting off evil that was invading mount celestrial to get to the book back and try to change it back

In my mind... Because I've been trying to build a supremely intelligent character who specializes in demonology and dark knowledge etc, etc. I found a couple ways to avoid the negative effects of the book. But from a DM perspective, to avoid gaming the system like I did as a player, I would make the book a supremely intelligent being who can read minds, speak, demand tributes, and other things.

man I don't know. I still say the most evil items in the game are the hand and eye of vecna. I mean, the book is powerful, but it doesn't essentially kill your character and turn it into a gm controlled npc/avatar of an evil god.

Something I thought of, and maybe I'll put the book in my game like this, is the idea that the Book of Vile Darkness and the Book of Exalted Deeds are actually two sides of the same coin (because the B.E.D. seems highly underpowered compared to the B.V.D.). However, because of the potency of either book, the Elder Gods of my multi-verse put both the B.E.D. and the B.V.D. in eternal suspended animation in a secret location in the world. But, this animation can be broken. If both an evil character and a good character enter the Chamber of Balance and copy each other step for step to the books and recite their spells in the respective languages (High Celestial and Dark Speech), then grab the books at the same time, both books can be removed and let loose on the world. However, if a single action is misplaced, or only half of the equation is shown, the book opposite what the character(s) wanted lash out and destroy the unworthy. And in this world, the only way for a PC to learn High Celestial or Dark Speech, or at least the spell needed to free the intended book, is to sell your soul to an archangel for the spell, and to make a deal with both a Demonlord and ArchDevil for both your soul and body for both halves of the spell.

In my current campaign I'm actually using the book as a major plot piece. The PCs are villains, I let them spend the first 5 sessions as assassins in one of the major cities. However their leader goes missing and the next day, the entire city is subject to a mind altering spell that causes everyone to head to the castle. When they arrive there they find out that a powerful witch is using her magic to banish all of the evil characters. Before leaving they're all given spell tattoos, and told that they will die if they kill another person. They arrive at the top of a large structure, suffused with an insane amount of magic that keeps them from escaping. They have to make their way down through the dungeon, level by level, defeating the challenges on each floor. Each challenge is set up to test them as characters, trying to nudge them closer and closer to good. The backstory is that a group of adventurers found the Book of Vile Darkness and crafted this entire scheme in order to destroy it. The "Book Bearer" is also sent to the dungeon, and carries out the necessary evil acts against evil people. The members out in the real world are systematically sending evil people to the dungeon, as well as sending monsters. Time passes more quickly in the dungeon, so that while the other members are sending people, the Book Bearer has time to carry out the hundred years. The PCs arrived at the tail end, with only a month left before the Bearer is finished. If the party can prove themselves redeemable, they can make it to the final floor and exit the dungeon. If they decide to continue with their nefarious ways, they have the chance to kill the Book Bearer (boss) and attain the Book of Vile Darkness before the entire tower is destroyed, along with everyone in it.

How would you go about making a witcher character

Book of vile darkness < Book of Exalted deeds.

I think I agree a little more with the two guys on the left side.

Apotheosis: A-POTH--Ē-Ō-SIS. Put the accent on the second syllable. Cool word.

Dind't the Book of Vile Darkness contain the Fire Rain spell that is bound to attract the Undead planet god that is bound to end worlds??

Easy out....The Players handbook describes "Animate dead" as an "evil act". It's right there in black and white. That's about as easy as it gets to satiate the book and contain the evil until a Solar can be recruited to banish it.

I would like to note that something I like about that book is "ritual to become a lich" because a lich has a CR of 21, same as a solar so if you have an ally(or item?) with True Polymorph you could turn a party member into a Solar I would assume that by the time you have your hand on a artifact like this book you would at least be close to a level nine spell.

The blood sorcerer sounds a lot like the blood mage from the game Dragon Age.

I want to get me one of those books!

3,650 acts of evil in a hundred years.

So I’m here because I may or may not have stolen said book from a party member and read it out loud (my tiefling bard has comprehend languages and I forgot to be specific about reading in English because I was excited to be useful) and downed half my party :/ I feel like the dm has pegged me as the villain. Any help? The book tells of a person named Igniss Roland (I think that’s it? I know the last names right) and the book has a spell to find magic items. Idk how should I play this? It’s my first campaign being a part of lol :P

What do you think should happen if someone read the book of good deeds (or something like that i forgot the exact name) bot then someone who read his book will make them in to evil with magic. Will an Engel come to kill them or will they instantly die because every evil whom touched the book should die

Pack of the chain warlock with the book of vile darkness, did someone else say brand new villain

I’m planning to do a campaign arc where a high level angel ripped apart some books of vile darkness and we have to stop the books from reforming

I was thinking on running this artifact in a game but instead of having the evil deed every 10 days or it leaves I was thinking an evil deed must be done every 10 days and more of the book could be read and I don't mean a small evil deed like stealing a toy the penalty for the deed not being done is the book regresses if not sated on a regular basis

God damnit , it's Death Note all over again

I just got the book of vile darkness because I was lawful good and my DM wanted to know what I'd do with it, now I know exactly what to do, I'm on a quest to destroy all evil and destroy the book with myself, hopefully I can get another magical item and spell so I can restore my life after I'm obliterated.

I would love to give it to a lich or mummy lord, and have the party have to journey and gain the aid of a Solar or Good-Aligned God to "destroy" the book and stop the creature from using it for vile purposes, you could even do a follow up down the line when the book reforms and the party's higher level.

What about the Vial of Dark Books?

Sell it to Asmodeus in exchange for juicy Devil boons

Yea, I picked this book up...

I have actualy used this before in a game and it worked realitivly smoothly... Its not that hard to manage if you have the book require you to commit X evil acts of so&so severity before it will show you this or that evil this forces the players to commit to the book... and while there trying to unlock the properties of the book you can send guards, hags, and other consequences at them to take it from them so it really becomes a focal point of the campaign without becoming a nightmare to you... And if they should lose the book, it gives you a chance to introduce a new big bad into the mix who is now in possession of the book 😈

Best campaign we ever did went from a lawful good game and meh story to a fun planer hope cashing down the gods and smiteing them and destroying the multiverse just to rest the whole thing at the end when everyone got grabe happy got to really enjoy making are charecters go insane and seeing what they would do being pushed from being devote of the gods to agents of chaos fun thing to try when a campaign is starting to stale

My players are actually about to go on a quest to get "A special book" for a man that they've been helping to "overthrow a government" (secretly he's just been having them get crap for them so he can become a lich)

did anyone else notice the gmm shout-out

I think even a single page out of the book of vile darkness would be a good adventure (or even campaign) starter, like some dude just happens to have a powerful fiend's true name off the page, or learned how to infect and control people with necrotic cysts, become someTHING, summoning back some forgotten dark god, whatever you think would be a good challenge.

used the book in a campaign with a good dragonborn paladin.put a ritual in it to turn him into a god of destruction at the cost of all 20 000 souls in his holy order.he did it and i gave him 30 strength and constition,24 of everything else. he has also killed three other party members along the way and kills puppies every 10 days summoned with a spell i made up.

If the book can alter your alignment as a possible side effect I like the idea of a Lich totally fucked now he's Chaotic good. The Book should be respected by both the living and the dead, as a legitimate danger to operate. High Necron Voltage! It un-does. To be attuned to it you must undo and it is not good so if you are willingly good you aren't attuned any more. That makes sense.