Barnaby's Comprehensive Guide to Monsters, Creatures and Fauna

Barnaby's Comprehensive Guide to Monsters, Creatures and Fauna is a notebook with an uncountable amount of information on Monsters, creatures and Fauna. Whilst it is the size of a small pocketbook it contains more information about the natural (and unnatural) world than any other book to date.

Instructions

Describe or name the subject you can see, then open the book to any page. The book will magically fill with information about the subject. If your request is too vague then pages will fly out the book (though there are infinite pages so this is just the more expressing its frustration). If the book has not seen the subject then it will open to a blank page.

Author Barnaby Trouthole

Barnaby spent his entire life travelling around the world looking researching and cataloguing every single monster, creature and fauna that he came across. He believed that researching and understanding the world around him was so important that he put his heart and soul into his work. Barnaby was one of the renown and revered Druids who passed down knowledge to any Druid we came across. On the day of Barnabies 500th birthday all his students gathered around to wish him a happy day and he summon an Adult Red Dragon to prove how gentle they could be, this was the last time anyone saw him as the beast devoured him and fled back to the mountains where it came from. There is only one original copy of his famous book Barnaby's Comprehensive Guide to Monsters, Creatures and Fauna in existence, all others are cheap immitations and contain nowhere near as much infomation as it.

Sentient

The book is sentient and will communicate to its owner. This can either be telepathic, verbal or it could just be through the actions of the book such as closing shut or shaking violently. The soul of the book could be Barnaby or it could be another soul trapped soul.

Mechanics

Describe the monster, creature or fauna to the DM (an investigation or nature check might be required). Then roll a d100. The outcome is at the description of the DM, generally, if the number is high then you get more details on the monster where a low score might result in no details, very little detail or incorrect details. On a d100 the book will reveal a very detailed account of the monster, more than just its stats and on a 1 the book will spit out paper in the air to show its anger and frustration.

You can use this book 3 times per long rest, if you try to get information from the book more than this it will act as a natural 1

You can use inspiration to roll the d100 twice.

Notes: Having read the book several times