 TSR created Dragonlance as a campaign setting for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( AD & D ) roleplaying game in 1982 , publishing the first of a series of modules , Dragons of Despair , in March 1984 . They published the first world @-@ spanning sourcebook , Dragonlance Adventures , in 1987 . When AD & D was updated to the 2nd edition in 1989 , the Dragonlance campaign setting was updated as well . However , in 1996 , Dragonlance was converted to use the new SAGA System , which uses cards to determine the effects of actions , with the publication of the Dragonlance : Fifth Age roleplaying game . When the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons was released , Dragonlance was again updated with a new sourcebook ( Dragonlance Campaign Setting ) , although no new adventures were published by Wizards of the Coast . Wizards of the Coast also turned over all responsibility for maintaining the Dragonlance setting in the 3rd edition to Margaret Weis 's home company , Sovereign Press . 
