Dragonlance Modules Books in Order

The original Dragonlance Modules are where the setting first took shape in playable form. They were built as adventure scenarios for tabletop groups, but they also carried a shared storyline strong enough to become one of fantasy gaming's best-known novel lines.

Douglas Niles was part of that foundation. His modules cover major stretches of the War of the Lance, including travel under occupation, the southern icebound arc, and the huge late-war push toward the final confrontation. Books like Dragons of Flame, Dragons of Ice, Dragons of Deceit, Dragons of Triumph, and World of Krynn show different sides of what these modules were trying to do.

Some are tightly plotted scenario pieces. Some are more like campaign toolkits. Some bring in Battlesystem-scale warfare or side adventures beyond the central march of the Companions. That variety is part of the charm. You can see the designers feeling out how epic a fantasy campaign could be.

These are not novels, and it helps to approach them on their own terms. Maps, encounter structure, pregenerated heroes, and branching party paths matter a lot. But if you love Dragonlance, the modules are fascinating because they reveal the setting in raw form, before later books smoothed everything into prose.

This is Dragonlance at the game table.

This page helps you sort Douglas Niles's module work in order and see how those adventures connect to the better-known novel chronology.