What are some cursed books in your setting?

What are some cursed books in your setting?

The Big Book of Ominous Omens
>When opening the book, it flutters open to a random page
>Roll randomly on a prepared table for fortune cookie style statements.
>Fluff this up with fantasy terms, and the book having a booming voice shouting dramatically.
>The book does nothing, but if there's anything that can be stretched to somehow linked to the curse, no matter how much of a stretch it is the book shouts again
>AND SO THE PROPHESY HAS BEEN FUFILLED.

Everytime the book was opened by a different, 'un-cursed' person there would be another random prophesy in the book. Unfortunately it was never used, it was in a shortly lived magical burst fantasy game but they got distracted by other happenings in the library.

The Grimoire Malifictum, a demon bound to an object. The pages are blank at first, but if the demon within senses a worthy student, the pages begin to fill with text introducing itself as Tutor of One Thousand Butchers.

The pages begin to fill with personalized 'lessons' on the nature of life, morality, and power. How good is a set of restrictions, and anything outside of that narrow worldview is 'evil'. About the right to choose your own path, and the importance of having the personal strength and wit to accomplish the goals you set for yourself.

Its essential a series of private motivalional speeches designed to turn you into a self serving psychopath who can justify any action no matter how terrible. And the more you embrace the lessons, the more the book helps you to unlock your 'true potential'.

The book never actually claims your soul or anything, though you might be coerced into sacrificing your friends for power. The Tutor does this out if well intentioned charity. Just, you know, charity from the perspective of a being of chaos and evil.

The necronomicon and its assorted spinoffs

There are none, books haven't been invented yet. I'll have to get back to you on the subject of cursed scrolls/tablets.

I like this idea.

I like THE BOOK from Lamentations of the Flame Princess. It just appears to be a book, a regular book, scattered in 1 or 2 pages here and there throughout the world. The more of it you get together, the more power it imparts to you, as it is actually a powerful spellbook.

Trouble is, it's ALIVE. And it wants to be put back together. As more of the book comes together, more and more of reality falls apart. Once it is complete, the Book becomes all powerful. Languages disintegrate, landmasses vanish, atoms fly apart until there is only one thing left in all of creation floating in the void; THE BOOK.

It also liked rewriting any and all text about it to be int he most positive light. So if one of the module's players got a letter about the book from their master, the letter was SUPPOSED to warn them about the book, not tell them to gather it up.

Well, it's not cursed per-se but it is very hazardous to read.

Basically, in the first millennia of the setting's existence, the patron god of humanity was metaphysically cleaved into three parts; body, soul, and mind. The body crumpled to dust, the soul was trapped in a necklace, and the mind was formed into a tome the size of a fucking sportscar.

This tome was lost for a while and people eventually forgot its origins and came to be called "The Omninomicon" (working title until I can think of something better) and is stored away in some douchebag wizard's tower. This book cannot be read normally, as the languages and syntax it is "written" in change by the second. Even if you were aided by magic, trying to read what are essentially the latent thoughts of a physical god is the psychic equivalent of sticking your tongue in an electrical socket. Naturally, all who study it eventually go cuco for cocoa puffs. Though, if you prepare yourself adequately or are willing to go a little crazy, you have access to secrets the likes of which would remain unknown to mankind for generations at least. It's the mind of a god who represents passion and creativity, you're bound to find some good ideas. Plus, weighing literal tons makes it a bit hard to transport. There's also the fact that it's magical presence is so strong it's like a lighthouse to anyone sensitive to magical auras, so every spellcaster for miles and miles basically has a big fat compass pointing in its direction. So if the book doesn't kill you, the magical treasure hunters will.

There was a book on cures that started my wizard on the road of corruption because he believed that everything could be used for good.
He was wrong.
There is also
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I've actually toyed with the idea of something similar. Scattered throughout the world are artefacts of unspeakable power always in the form of a piece of writing. Could be a scroll, a codex, even a scrap of paper with a few legible words on it. In addition to the effect the artefact has (be it good or ill), the very act of reading them causes a change in the world that may or may not be immediately apparent and the reader always has some malus befall them which, also, may or may not be immediate. Could be something as horrendous as having their soul stripped out or as mundane as catching a cold and sneezing on your employer.

The Not!Bible, because the Church is secretly a Satanic Cult and only the highest higher ups know that their God is actually Satan.

That's really lame.

Dave's Scrapbook.
An amalgam of arcane rituals, golem instructions, eldritch instructions, and half-decent drawings of mundane things. The drawings are the most dangerous pages of his book.

The Handyman's Guide to Aberrations and other Terrible Creatures.

It was written by a madman that wanted to steal the faces of everyone in the world. Opening the only copy in the world causes your face to be sucked into the book and displayed on a wall in his home.

> Book of the End
> each chapter contains the way the world ends
> contains Chapter of Water, Chapter of Fire, Chapter of Wood, Chapter of Grey and so on.
> As the world draws nearer to it's final end, book grows ever smaller. Because in the process avoiding one end causes the world to becomes vulnerable to another.

The Ledger of the Canned
It seems to be an innocuous accounts book, but no matter what you, it never balances, and it will invariably be the first book your Auditor will grab a hold of.

The Journal of False Betrayal
>Seems to be a normal journal by the person who possess it.
>If viewed by other the entries are warped in such a way that it seems the person who wrote in the journal is planning to betray the person reading it.

The grimoire of al'Scheraz, a Babylonian priest who turned his daughter into a living god while using her as a guinea pig to test the ritual for himself. It essentially contains the origins of magic in the world, and the names of the sacred beasts that rule the eight facets of creation, mwhich would give the bearer power over them.

It also makes anyone who reads it a shining "Come fuck my shit up" beacon for monsters.

I actually used SCP-1425 in an UA game.

A self-help book that actually provably makes your dream come true with minimal effort. Problem it warp reality a little, and your mind too, and everyone who read it, shifting their own perception sideway and incredibly wrong.

Is this a good thing? A bad thing? No-one knows. But it is viral, reality is straining, more and more people are reading that book, and everything is going to shit fast. Have fun.

The Writings of Skood
It's a book about the nature of goblins. Reading it gives you some form of bonus on all things goblin - tracking goblins, spotting traps set up by goblins, etc. However, reading it also makes it so that you become a little more goblin and start taking on their habits, whatever they may be in the setting - unnatural love of shiny things, liking strong smells, etc.
The way to get rid of the curse is to create a copy of the book and discard it somewhere. But you also lose all your goblin bonuses. If you still have a copy though, you can re-read it to get benefits and curse again.

The journal of the senator. The senator is an eldritch abomination who was impeached after one murder too many. It's not cursed in the traditional way, but it's the fact that the writings cause "overflow errors" in the brain. Basically, if humans have 8 bits to the byte, her writing adds 12 bits of data.