Enc.:	IS:	Class: F	XP: 8k	GP: 40k
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Miscellaneous Magic	-	<8Magic Items8>	-	DMG

Manual of Puissant Skill at Arms: This scholarly study contains expert
advice and instruction regarding weapon use and various attack and
defense modes. Any single fighter (including a bard, but not a paladin or
ranger) who reads the manual and practices the skills described therein
for 1 month will go up to the mid-point of the next higher level. The book
disappears after it is read, and the knowledge therein will be forgotten
within 3 months, so it must be acted upon with reasonable expedition. The
fighter cannot articulate what he or she has read, nor con i t be recorded in
any fashion. A paladin or ranger will understand the work but it cannot
benefit either class. Any cleric (including druid), thief (including assassin
or monk who handles/reads the manual‘ will not understand it. If a magicuser
(including an illusionist) so much as scans a few of its letters, he or
she will be stunned for 1-6 turns and lose 10.000-60.000 experience points
as the work is so opposed to the magic-using profession. Only one perusal
of the work will benefit the same character.