 In the mid to late 1980s , a rift developed between Weis and Hickman , and TSR . The pair were feeling under @-@ appreciated by the company , and when TSR turned down their Darksword series of novels , they went to Bantam Books . Bantam made them an offer , which they accepted , and they stopped writing Dragonlance novels for TSR . They returned to write Dragons of Summer Flame for TSR in 1995 , thinking it would be their final Dragonlance novel . At the time , Dragonlance gaming had been converted to the SAGA System , with limited success , and that , combined with TSR 's general financial troubles , put the setting 's future in doubt . Wizards of the Coast bought the troubled TSR in 1997 , and Weis and Hickman then proposed the War of Souls trilogy , which was published in 2000 – 2002 . All three novels made the New York Times bestseller list , and the setting was commercially revitalized . By 1998 , the original Dragonlance trilogy had sold well over three million copies worldwide and spawned dozens of sequels . The central books of the Dragonlance series were written by the authoring team of Weis and Hickman ; however , many other writers have made contributions , including Richard A. Knaak , Douglas Niles , Roger E. Moore , Don Perrin , Jean Rabe , Paul B. Thompson , Tonya C. Cook , Michael Williams , Nancy Varian Berberick , and Chris Pierson . 
