The Year of Rogue Dragons is a series of novels set in the Forgotten Realms

Forgotten Realms

The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories...

 campaign setting.

Plot summary

The series explores the ancient secrets of dragons

Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game , dragons are an iconic type of monstrous creature used as adversaries or, less commonly, allies of player characters...

 and their society.

Contents

The series contains a trilogy of novels written by Richard Lee Byers

Richard Lee Byers

-Biography:Richard Lee Byers holds a Master's degree in Psychology. A resident of the Tampa Bay area, he worked in an emergency psychiatric facility for over a decade, then left the mental health field to become a writer. He is also a fencing and poker enthusiast. He is the author of over thirty...

, as well as two anthologies of short stories written by various authors.

• The Rage, by Richard Lee Byers
  Richard Lee Byers
  -Biography:Richard Lee Byers holds a Master's degree in Psychology. A resident of the Tampa Bay area, he worked in an emergency psychiatric facility for over a decade, then left the mental health field to become a writer. He is also a fencing and poker enthusiast. He is the author of over thirty...
  
   (paperback, April 2004, ISBN 978-0-7869-3187-3)
• The Rite, by Richard Lee Byers
  Richard Lee Byers
  -Biography:Richard Lee Byers holds a Master's degree in Psychology. A resident of the Tampa Bay area, he worked in an emergency psychiatric facility for over a decade, then left the mental health field to become a writer. He is also a fencing and poker enthusiast. He is the author of over thirty...
  
   (paperback, January 2005, ISBN 978-0-7869-3581-9)
• The Ruin, by Richard Lee Byers
  Richard Lee Byers
  -Biography:Richard Lee Byers holds a Master's degree in Psychology. A resident of the Tampa Bay area, he worked in an emergency psychiatric facility for over a decade, then left the mental health field to become a writer. He is also a fencing and poker enthusiast. He is the author of over thirty...
  
   (paperback, May 2006, ISBN 978-0-7869-4003-5)

• Realms of the Dragons, edited by Philip Athans
  Philip Athans
  -Biography:Philip Athans was born in 1964 in Rochester, New York, but was raised in Chicago. Athans grew up reading Marvel comics and Starlog magazines, and watching Star Trek...
  
   (paperback, October 2004, ISBN 978-0-7869-3394-5)
  • "Soulbound", by Paul S. Kemp
    Paul S. Kemp
    Paul S. Kemp is a fantasy author most known for his Forgotten Realms novels. Some examples of his work include Resurrection, the final installation of War of the Spider Queen series...
    
    
  • "First Flight", by Edward Bolme
  • "Gorlist's Dragon", by Elaine Cunningham
    Elaine Cunningham
    Elaine Cunningham is an American fantasy and science fiction author, especially known for her contributions to the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game campaign setting of Forgotten Realms, including the realms of Evermeet, Halruaa, Ruathym and Waterdeep.-Biography:Elaine Cunningham grew up in New...
    
    
  • "The Keeper of Secrets", by Ed Greenwood
    Ed Greenwood
    Ed Greenwood is a Canadian writer and editor who created the Forgotten Realms. He invented the Forgotten Realms as a child, as a fantasy world in which to set the stories he imagined, and later used this world as a campaign setting for his own personal Dungeons & Dragons playing group...
    
    
  • "The Topaz Dragon", by Jess Lebow
  • "Wickless in the Nether", by R. A. Salvatore
  • "Serpestrillvith", by Richard Baker
    Richard Baker (game designer)
    Richard Baker is an American author and a game designer who has worked on many Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.-Early life, education, and military:...
    
    
  • "Waylaid", by Thomas M. Reid
  • "Standard Delving Procedure", by Lisa Smedman
    Lisa Smedman
    Lisa Smedman is a newspaper editor and a science fiction and fantasy novelist. Her most well-known work is Extinction, a novel set in the Forgotten Realms universe.-Background:...
    
    
  • "An Icy Heart", by Voronica Whitney-Robinson
  • "Penitential Rites", by Keith Francis Strohm
  • "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", by Dave Gross
  • "Beer with a Fat Dragon", by Don Bassingthwaite
    Don Bassingthwaite
    Don Bassingthwaite was born in Meaford, Ontario, and now lives and works in Toronto. He has degrees in anthropology and museum studies and is the author of numerous fantasy and dark fantasy novels. Many of his works are set in the fictional universes of role-playing games...
    
    
  • "The Prisoner of Hulburg", by Richard Lee Byers
    Richard Lee Byers
    -Biography:Richard Lee Byers holds a Master's degree in Psychology. A resident of the Tampa Bay area, he worked in an emergency psychiatric facility for over a decade, then left the mental health field to become a writer. He is also a fencing and poker enthusiast. He is the author of over thirty...
    
    

• Realms of the Dragons II, edited by Philip Athans
  Philip Athans
  -Biography:Philip Athans was born in 1964 in Rochester, New York, but was raised in Chicago. Athans grew up reading Marvel comics and Starlog magazines, and watching Star Trek...
  
   (paperback, May 2005, ISBN 978-0-7869-3808-7)
  • "Faerie Ire", by Erin Tettensor
  • "The Woman Who Drew Dragons", by Rosemary Jones
  • "The Hunting Game", by Erik Scott de Bie
  • "The Road Home", by Harley Stroh
  • "How Burlmarr Saved the Unseen Protector", by Kameron M. Franklin
  • "A Tall Tale", by J.L. Collins
  • "The Book Dragon", by Jim Pitrat
  • "Freedom's Promise", by Ed Gentry
  • "Possessions", by James P. Davis
  • "Queen of the Mountain", by Jaleigh Johnson
  • "The Strength of the Jester", by Murray J.D. Leeder

The Year of Rogue Dragons trilogy was later reprinted as an omnibus in The Year of Rogue Dragons (paperback, October 2010, ISBN 978-0-7869-5574-9).