Fantasy settings often feature intelligent books. Yet, despite those objects being intelligent (and even conversant!), they rarely take center stage in the stories we tell. Forced into the background of the story, these intelligent books rarely have the time to tell their own stories.
Bound joyfully shifts that paradigm. No longer are intelligent books merely tools to use. Now they are the center of your story!
Inside Bound are all the rules you will need to play a self-aware Tome of considerable magical power. Intelligent books, who call themselves “Tomes,” live in a world where the inanimate is valued just as much as the animate. That world is vibrant and exciting and magical, but rarely recognized by traditional types of player characters. Bound will open up an entirely new setting just “below” your favorite fantasy setting, a place where intelligent books and other magical objects hold court, make war, and build a future.
With Bound, it is finally time to tell the stories of those who protect others’ stories.
- from the publisher's blurb