Dragonlance Dragons of Krynn [Hardcover]

Cam Banks (Author), Shivam Bhatt (Author), Weldon Chen (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 168 pages
• Publisher: "Margaret Weis Productions, LTD" (October 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931567271
• ISBN-13: 978-1931567275
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #669,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Born in the mythical antipodean utopia of New Zealand, wisely regarded by scholars as the fountainhead of cultural excellence and the only place on Earth capable of filling in for Middle Earth, Narnia, and Ancient Greece, Cam Banks was lured away by the siren call of a life with meaning and purpose. Cam now lives a quiet, pastoral existence in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area with his beautiful wife, their two boys, and more books, comics, and music than he can comfortably store. He works with Margaret Weis Productions as line developer and in-house coffee drinker. In his free time, Cam likes to read and write fantasy fiction, watch movies and television with his wife, play video games with his oldest son, and allow his youngest son to chip away at his sanity.

Cam's work has appeared in almost every one of over a dozen DRAGONLANCE game sourcebooks published by Sovereign Press and Margaret Weis Productions, and three times in Dragon Magazine. His work on the Bestiary of Krynn earned a silver ENnie Award in 2004 for Best Monster Supplement. Cam's first short story, "Chain of Fools," appears in the anthology Dragons of Time; The Sellsword, published in April 2008, is his first published novel.

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3.0 out of 5 stars great book but only for hardcore fans, August 12, 2008

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book but I'm not sure it's worth even the discounted amazon price of twenty seven dollars... if you're a hardcore Dragonlance fan like me who also lives for (D&D) gaming then yes by all means buy it... however if you don't fall into both of those categories I'd hesitate to recommend it unless you can get a cheap used copy for about fourteen dollars or so (which is entirely possible in the near future given the release of D&D 4th edition and that this is a third edition book). Well written, fun to read, but aside from the racial progression table (basically lets you start playing draconians as a "1st level" or higher character) not a huge amount of "crunchy" game specific stats and rules you can easily plug into your campaign... more like a lot of background info on dragons, dragon-like creatures, creatures of draconic heritage (kobolds, sligs and nagas for example) which is good for flavor text if you're running a game but not much else... Unless you're planning on running a draconian character you'll be just fine with the dragonlance campaign setting and war of the lance books (both excellent books that I highly recommend if you're planning to run a dragonlance campaign or even just a dragonlance fan who also enjoys playing D&D... although again given they're both 3rd edition books if you're planning to run a 4th edition D&D game they will be of limited usefulness)...

Also like most RPG books out there nowadays there's a variety of errors, in this case in the afforementioned draconian racial progression tables... do a search on google for dragons of krynn errata and you'll come up with a link to the dragonlanceforums website where the author of the book, Cam Banks, addresses these issues and offers corrected information. I would print out any pertinent comments he makes and keep it in your hardcopy cover of the book like I did.

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy rules for more races to play and great info, October 24, 2010

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This review is from: Dragonlance Dragons of Krynn (Hardcover)

If you liked Savage Species, or the powerful races in Races of Stone, Races of the Wild, or the Planar Handbook, then you will love Dragons of Krynn.

Providing some information very similar to the Draconomicon, this book illustrates the difference between standard D&D dragons and Krynnish dragons. The artwork could use some help, but that too shows the difference. There is a lot of the history, personalities, and culture of Krynnish dragons.
If you like using different races for PCs or NPCs, then there are a lot of good options here. The format is the same as in the previously mentioned books. There are also good feats for these races as well. I highly recommend supplementing this book with the Draconomicon and having draconians count as half-dragons for certain feats.
Everyone focuses on the evil of dragons. This book gives a lot of ideas on good dragons beyond just followers of Bahamut. Paladin and Takhisis are mirrors of Bahamut and Tiamat, but their story is different and very interesting.

Overall, great book. The editor needs to be shot though, because there are quite a few typing errors and page number glitches. (refer to page ###, literally using those symbols instead of numbers, is not professional looking)

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Dragonlance Roleplaying Book, June 21, 2008

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Leonardo Gruber (Porto Alegre - Brazil) - See all my reviews
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Under normal circumstances, I never could review this book. Being a Dragonlance fan for more than 6 years now, I've stopped with others worlds for RPGs and started to devour every romance and every game product from Margaret Weis. This is a example of a work done with love - the book is so good to read, even for dragonlance readers who do not share love for D&D or RPG. The statistics for dragons works in any D&D game, and the descriptions of new powers for Draconian (and race levels, with adds much more in the way of tougher enemies for the characters), dragons and so, bring this as one of my favorite dragonlance books. MW Productions have made again one of the best Roleplaying book I've ever read! Worth's every cent!