What is Dragonlance, and how did it start?
Dragonlance is a high-fantasy setting developed by TSR, Inc. during the mid-1980s to support its Advanced Dungeons & Dragons product line. In addition to gaming modules which players and dungeon masters could purchase from the story and play using the AD&D rules, the Dragonlance line also featured a series of novels about characters that appeared in the modules. Today, the Dragonlance product line features over 100 novels and numerous gaming products, as well as comic books, a board game, video games, and other items that have been released over the years. The story of how Dragonlance was developed has been recounted many times in various products, most notably in The Annotated Dragonlance Chronicles. Briefly, Tracy Hickman came up with the vision for a world of dragons while driving cross-country to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. With the help of numerous other TSR designers, and borrowing heavily from Jeff Grubb’s home-grown campaign world, Dragonlance was born. To accompany the modules bei
