Temple of the Dragonslayer

The Dragonlance setting was first published by TSR in 1984.^[3] In 2001, Wizards of the Coast (WotC) licensed Sovereign Press to publish further Dragonlance game materials. This began with the newly revised Dragonlance Campaign Setting in 2003, which used the new Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition rules.^[4] Marketing support for this new setting included a series of eight novels titled Dragonlance: The New Adventures published by Mirrorstone Books, WotC's young adult imprint, between July 2004 and July 2005.^[5]

The first novel in the series was Temple of the Dragonslayer by Tim Waggoner, published in 2004, with interior and cover art by Vinod Rams.

The review site Into the Nebula found the novel's plot "simplistic", and that "the characters are interesting but lack a motivational depth". The reviewer concluded that although the novel ticked the usual boxes of fantasy literature, it did not have the same "real heart and charm" of the original War of the Lance novels that had been published twenty years before.^[6]