Hot off the Press! These are not your eldritch manuals or ancient folios of doom. These are random books, a GM can use whenever a PC reaches for a shelf, which usually happens when said GM is least expecting it. These can be found in most libraries, many private homes, and anywhere else one could expect to find a book. More than a few have some built-in plot hooklings as well, while others, like many books of our age, are plain drivel.

Everyone can think of a favorite song or two (or three) which can easily be translated into a fantasy rpg concept, be it an item, plot, location, or what have you. Just take the lyrics of your favorite real-life ditty, and go from there!

They consumed Great G'bod. They partook of the Giant Slug's flesh.

'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,'

-Shakespeares 29th Sonnet.

Save/Help the Halflings! They offer rewards. Material and otherwise.

Space-Faring, Hard-Rocking, Metal-Grinding, Star-Tripping, Deathdealing, Dwarves.

"A-Wan, A-Wan, A-Wan". Awanggis is an unassuming place blessed with good clean water from a subterranean source.

E'Scatonia's demon-wrought strongbox held her favorite things.

*Sphhisshh* *Sphhissh* *Sphhissh*

Pets mind you. Not exotic monster companions. No saddled dire-boars to be found here. No purple worm caravans.

Powlgraff, The Fowl City.

Font of Damnable Contemplation

Wherever the PCs have gone recently, they have heard the talk. The Doomsday Machine of Toothless Amalgam has stopped spitting out birdseed. The End is nigh.

Destroyer of Dynasties, Killer of Kings, Bane of Broods, Curse of the Ruling Elite!

Beware the amphibious wolves my child, and most of all, avoid the red-eyed crow!

TOP SECRET! A Pickled Herring

During certain years, people in Akgku claim to observe a green flame coming from the sea and erupting upward. It can be observed from a distance of two days' journey or more. After burning for a considerable time, the flame disappears.

—Falklyde Wodinger, Haraconian scholar, in route to wondrous Udross and legendary Akgku.

Gifts from the King! Given to those explorers and adventurers, his highness deems worthy of being commissioned to travel on his business, into the northern territories.

Et deprecabantur eum spiritus dicentes mitte nos in porcos ut in eos introeamus (Mark 5:12)

Outtakes from the duo's many travels beyond the Polished Sea, cataloging some of the stranger creatures they encountered.