Letters from the Flaming Crab: Libraries

Letters from the Flaming Crab is a monthly series of Pathfinder-compatible supplements. Each Letter focuses on exploring a different topic to give gamemasters and players new, exciting options that can be dropped into any campaign. Within Libraries, we introduce rules and guidance on inserting libraries into a fantasy society! First, we give a brief history of libraries from 2600 BCE to 1850 CE before defining them. Then we introduce new categories for library statblocks to help you build believable libraries: Type, Access, Circulation, and Audience. We give an example for each of the following library types: Academic (Dwarven Mining College Library), Children's (Jolly Charred's Wagon of Wonder), Lost (Mistress Sandwind's Opera Omnia), National (Museum Verborum Dierum), Private (The Court of Lishaz), Public (Library of the Sunken City), Reading Room (Lidiana's Book Nook), Religious (The Temple of Healing's Medical Collection), Research (The Eccentric Professor's Library), and Virtual (