
Technically a 1st-party book, it received no further official support, with the production of future sourcebooks delegated to Margaret Weis in charge of Sovereign Press. Love it or hate it, there are few other settings like Dragonlance. Many chided the original modules as railroady, the kender race proved a hit with disruptive Chaotic Stupid players, and the update to the settings 5th Age and temporary abandonment of the DD ruleset rivaled our modern Edition Wars in dividing the fanbase.īut the world and its stories still holds a place in the hobbys history for being revolutionary for its time, examining what a world functioning under the DD ruleset would be like, and popularizing the epic journey to save the world model as a campaign concept.


3.5 Dragonlance Campaign Setting Update To The The setting proved wildly popular, even beyond the Dungeons Dragons fandom, earning a spot on the New York Times Bestseller list.įor a time it even shared a spotlight with the established Forgotten Realms as a popular setting. Hickman suggested a series of linked adventures, and the design team decided that a series of novels should accompany it.


Dragonlance co-creator Tracy Hickman and author Margaret Weiss brought the setting to life with their Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy in the 1980s, and a new novel is expected to arrive later this year.
