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The campaign setting was not supported during the 4th Edition era (2008-2013) of Dungeons & Dragons.

Sovereign Press maintained the Dragonlance line until 2007. The Council would continue to be important to Sovereign following the publication of the Dragonlance Campaign Setting, with a few members contributing increasingly large amounts to later releases'. Appelcline highlighted that 'the Whitestone Council was asked to review Sovereign's manuscript and in a few cases also got to submit minor bits for the new setting book. The official update, Dragonlance Campaign Setting, was published in 2003 for the 3.5 Edition it moved the timeline to 422 AC and was set six months 'after the end of the War of Souls trilogy (2000-2002)'.

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Then in 2002, Margaret Weis's company Sovereign Press acquired the license to publish 3rd Edition Dragonlance material. The Whitestone Council was supported by both Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis. Initially, the Dragonlance-L mailing list updated the setting this mailing list would become known as the Whitestone Council and would maintain The Dragonlance Nexus website.

However, Wizards allowed a group of fans to support the line for the 3rd Edition on the internet. Īfter Wizards of the Coast's acquisition of TSR, the 3rd Edition of Dungeons & Dragons was released in 2000 and Wizards announced that the Dragonlance setting would not be supported. The majority of the SAGA line was set during 414 AC, however, the final releases of the line were set in 383 AC. Shannon Appelcline commented that 'the non-AD&D game was not to everyone's taste, but it was extensively supported from 1996-2000, with a timeline that pushed considerably into Krynn's future'. The SAGA System has a more narrative focused gameplay style than AD&D and uses cards to determine the effects of actions. In 1996, Dragonlance was converted to TSR's new SAGA System with the publication of the Dragonlance: Fifth Age roleplaying game. However, the Dragonlance fiction line 'remained wildly successful' and included 'some 60 novels and anthologies' 'TSR wanted to bring those fiction fans back into the roleplaying fold if they could, and so a new team was set to work to create a new Dragonlance game'. In 1993, the product line for AD&D was canceled. When AD&D was updated to the 2nd edition in 1989, the Dragonlance campaign setting was updated as well. The first Krynn setting guide, Dragonlance Adventures, would follow in 1987. Weis and Hickman felt this was constraining and made the novel feel too episodic, so they reversed the process for the next books and completed the novels before the related modules were written. This novel was written after the completion of the first Dragonlance game modules. Then in November 1984, Dragons of Autumn Twilight was published. The first module, Dragons of Despair, was published in March 1984.

They wrote the five chapters over a weekend and were given the job to write the accompanying novels based on that. At this point it was suggested that Hickman and Margaret Weis, an editor in TSR's book department who had become involved with the project, ought to write the books. Originally an external writer was hired, but the design group found themselves more and more disillusioned with his work. Later in the development process it was decided that a trilogy of fantasy novels would be released with the modules. The original group included Tracy Hickman, Harold Johnson, Larry Elmore, Carl Smith and Jeff Grubb.

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The project was then developed, under the code name 'Project Overlord' to plan the series.

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When this plan reached then head of TSR Gary Gygax, it fitted well with an idea he had considered of doing a series of 12 modules each based on one of the official Monster Manual dragons. In 1982, Tracy proposed at TSR a series of three modules featuring evil dragons. As they drove from Utah to Wisconsin so Tracy could take up a job with TSR in 1981, they discussed this idea.

The Dragonlance game project began with Tracy and Laura Hickman, and the idea of a world dominated by dragons. Player's Guide to the Dragonlance Campaign