The Complete Krynn Source Book! Welcome, guest, to our inn. Shake the dust from your boots and throw off the cares of the weary road you travel. Have no fear of goblin or draconian, dragon or ogre (except in legend and song that you will hear around our fire)! This night, guest, you are safe and…
The Complete Krynn Source Book
Bill of Fare
Welcome, guest, to our inn.
Shake the dust from your boots and throw off the cares of the weary road you travel. Have no fear of goblin or draconian, dragon or ogre (except in legend and song that you will hear around our fire)! This night, guest, you are safe and warm within the branches of the sheltering vallenwood.
—Your proprietors, Caramon and Tika Majere
For Your Enjoyment, We Offer:
- How the Companions Met
- Lord Gunthar’s War Journal
- Bertrem’s Essays on the Races of Krynn
- Notes from Raistlin’s Book of Herb Lore
- Rune Readings and Numerological Charts
- Songs, Recipes, Musical Scores
- Legends, Proverbs, Artifacts of Krynn
And a few other items we might have overlooked (as the kender said when he emptied his pockets).
Preface
Canticle of the Dragon
Michael Williams
Originally published in Dragons of Despair
The Creation of the World
Originally published in Dragons of Mystery
The Timeline of Krynn
Originally published in Tales of the Lance
How the Companions Met
Originally published in Dragons of Mystery
Bertrem’s Essays on the Races of Krynn
Roger E. Moore
Original published in Dragon Magazine #101-103.
Artifacts
The Manuscript of Dunstan VanEyre
Kevin Swann and William Wells
Legends
Maps
Stephen D. Sullivan
The Constellations of Krynn
Bob Maurus
Originally published in Dragons of Mystery
Lord Gunthar’s War Journal
Originally published in Dragons of Glory
Bertrem’s Essay on Numerology
Patrick Lucien Price
Herbalism
Patrick Lucien Price
Bertrem’s Essay on Runes
Patrick Lucien Price
Songs
Michael Williams
Music of Krynn
Janet Pack
From Tika’s Cookbook
Kate Novak
Leaves was originally released in 1987 alongside three other sourcebooks. We sort it with the Gaming Books because it’s a large-format book that belongs on the shelf with the rest of your RPG collection. A good chunk of its content is drawn from the original DL series of adventure modules, especially DL5 Dragons of Mystery—stories and essays and maps which might be of interest to novel readers (without game stats included).
It was rounded out with other, new content, most famously the songs and recipes. You can find, as you might expect, Otik’s Spiced Fried Potatoes, but the most famous recipe has got to be Fizban’s Fireball Chili. My own copy was signed by Weis and Hickman in 2001. “Enjoy the chili,” wrote Tracy, and Margaret wrote, “Beware the chili!”
The first edition of Leaves includes “The Timeline of Krynn“ from DL14 (this was also reprinted in Dragonlance Adventures). In the 1993 second edition of Leaves, this was replaced with a completely overhauled timeline which was originally published in Tales of the Lance in 1992. The big embarrassment in the DL14 timeline was that Huma lived thousands of years before the founding of the Knights of Solamnia!
This book is a delightful addition to any collection, but I doubt any Dragonlance fan, even in 1987, has ever considered it to be “the complete Krynn source book”—more of a fun miscellany, ultimately much less immersive and fascinating than DLA or Fonstad’s grand Atlas.
Catalog #: 8446
Print Edition: 2nd
Timeline: 369 AC (rev. 375 AC)
