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100 Book Titles To Use In Your Fantasy RPG

A d100 list for fantastic libraries, mysterious bookshops, creepy old wizard towers, and quiet halfling holes.

John Teehan
4 min readJan 3, 2020

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How familiar is this scenario? Your players enter an old study, a library, or a town bookstore and immediately they ask what kind of books they find.

The problem is — you’re not prepared to answer that question. Maybe you were rushed in designing your adventure, or perhaps whoever wrote the adventure didn’t bother to tell you.

Never fear!

Below are one hundred titles of books you can use to help flesh out the more literary settings of your adventure. Some are serious. Some are a bit tongue-in-cheek. While none of the books listed are inherently magical, there is no reason why you couldn’t imbue some with Eldritch features.

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Read through the list and see if any titles speak to you, or roll a d100 to pick one at random and improvise on the spot. Not all titles will fit all settings. That’s okay. Re-roll and/or adjust as you need.

Have fun!

  1. The Book of Common Law

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John Teehan
John Teehan

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