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Book

Adventuring gear

• Cost: 25 gp
• Weight: 5.0 lbs.

A Book contains fiction or nonfiction. If you consult an accurate nonfiction Book about its topic, you gain a +5 bonus to Intelligence (Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion) checks you make about that topic.

Source: Player’s Handbook (2024) p. 224. Available in the SRD and the Free Rules (2024)