Bookbinding returns!

The bookbinding bug bites again.

Iinspired by a little snippit I found via Pinterest, I just had to make my current D&D character’s book.

The inspiration:

The character:

Bob, the enchanter is…. well, he’s a special/colorful character and I love him. He’s a 43 year old human wizard. He grew up in Waterdeep and was contacted by Mohana (my very first character I ever played and subsequently all of the characters I have created are in some fashion “related” to him) to fund – and fuel – Bob’s arcane interests. Bob works at Waterdeep’s local cemetery, taking pride in his work and necromancy knowledge, using his skills to keep the undead population under control. He fancies himself the “shepard of the dead”. He’s socially awkward, has a familiar named Sir William – a tiny goat.

(Yes, I know. I put in a significant amount of work into the backstory of my characters. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Trust me.)

Bob

The book:

Initially I had printed Bob’s book and put everything in a 3-ring binder. Recently I found out that some of the needed information was missing. So I got to thinking. Make a new wizard spell book and hand write everything in it as the campaign progresses. It’s smaller and more compact than the 3-ring binder and much, much lighter. There will be no excess pages that I have to flip through and spells/feats/notes will be at the ready whenever they are needed.

I went with a 90’s holographic theme initially. Now I’m incorporating a rainbow of pages (yes, there are 128) in a 5.5 by 7 inch size (yes, I know the inspiring photo above said 5×7 but I’m fudging it a bit to allow for stitching and for my own sanity; do you know how difficult and time consuming it can be to accurately cut this many pages to size by hand?)

Below are the signatures, stitched with rainbow thread. Also pictured (right) are the handmade headbands that I have yet to cut down to size and adhere to the text block. I plan on re purposing the holographic paper I currently have gracing the cover of the 3-ring binder and utilizing it for the endpapers. Once this book has been completely constructed, I will hand write (with a fountain pen of course!) all of the information within it’s pages.