 Their ideas were well received by TSR , whose marketing department felt they had enough dungeons , but not enough dragons . Hickman suggested a series of twelve modules , each featuring a different dragon . TSR employee Harold Johnson suggested that Hickman should try to get additional support from other TSR staff members and , after a period of months , Hickman had the support of Jeff Grubb , Larry Elmore , Roger Moore , Doug Niles , Michael Williams , and others with whom they discussed ideas for the project . Meanwhile , Weis was editing and writing various Endless Quest books for TSR . The Dragonlance group decided that novels should accompany the game modules ; TSR reluctantly agreed and hired a writer . Hickman became the design coordinator for Project Overlord , the cover name for what would later be known as the Dragonlance saga . 
