Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition or d20 was not only a refresh of the entire game, but a new direction free from the Gygax influence. Buy Dragonlance Campaign Setting: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/28592/Dragonlance-Campaign-Setting-35?affiliate_id=50797

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Cold Open

Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition would open up their rules with the d20 system and open game licenses for third party publishers.

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about Dragonlance in D&D 3e or the d20 System. I would like to take a moment and thank the members of this channel, and invite you to consider becoming a member by visiting the link in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate link. All of these titles are available as digital editions through my affiliate link.

Discussion

With the acquisition of Dungeons & Dragons by Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro buying them in 1999, they saw an opportunity to not only connect the IP with digital devices but also roll out a whole new game system that would drop many of the Gygax rules and philosophies of the game for greater player attraction and interaction. Hasbro would roll out D&D to board games by Parker Brothers, and give it a go with films, while the Dungeons & Dragons brand would drop advanced from its title and roll out the new system in the year 2000. This new edition would hold to its promise from Jim Butler that Dragonlance would no longer be published by Wizards of the Coast and they would not develop it out for the new d20 system. So we saw Dragonlance in AD&D run from 1984-1987, AD&D 2e from 1989-1993 and SAGA System from 1996-2000. This seemed to be the end of Dragonlance as a campaign world in role-playing games. However, Tracy Hickman and the Dragonlance-L mailing list would come together and form the Whitestone Council to create unofficial Dragonlance conversions online for D&D 3e. The website dl3e.com, the progenitor of DragonlanceNexus.com, would be backed by twelve fervent fans and Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman. In March 2002, Margaret Weis’ RPG Publishing company Sovereign Press acquired a license to publish Dragonlance material for D&D 3e. This new endeavor would be supported by the fan group Whitestone Council, and would end with the best 20 Dragonlance sourcebooks and adventures ever released in the setting.

What made them great was arguably the passion and love for the setting that those involved had, and the return to Weis and Hickman’s view of what Dragonlance should be. Christopher Coyle was said to have speed-read 90 novels and filtered them down to canon vs. non canon, using them as well as every previous release of Dragonlance products as source material to unify what was a random assortment of contradictory and confusing information. Wizards of the Coast gave the team a heads up about the coming 3.5 edition of D&D so all the work that had gone into the Dragonlance Campaign Setting thus far, needed to be updated for the new edition, which made Dragonlance the first setting for D&D 3.5e/ the d20 system. The Dragonlance Campaign Setting was then handed off to Wizards of the Coast who printed this first manual, and forced Sovereign Press to print the rest of the planned supplements. The Dragonlance Campaign Setting by Margaret Weis, Don Perrin, Jamie Chambers, and Christopher Coyle was released in August 2003 at the first Gen Con Indy. Because the SAGA  System wasn't entirely dissimilar to D&D 3e in spirit,