Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home

Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home
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Series: Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home, Book 1
Genre: Gaming Books
Tags: AD&D, Classic Era
Publisher: TSR
Publication Year: Feb. 1987
Format: Paperback
Length: 256 pages
ASIN: 0880384654
ISBN: 0880384654
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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…

About the Book

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).

Table of Contents

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

Falconer’s Note

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.

Additional Information

Catalog #: 8446
Print Edition: 2nd
Timeline: 369 AC (rev. 375 AC)

About the Author
Margaret Weis

Margaret Weis was born and raised in Independence, Missouri. She attended the University of Missouri, Columbia, graduating in 1970 with a BA degree in Literature and Creative Writing. In 1983, she moved to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to take a job as book editor at TSR, Inc., producers of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® role-playing game.

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