I was a huge fan of the Dragonlance books when I was a kid, but never really enjoyed using it as a setting for games. The modules always felt to "railroady" in that they made you pretty much have to follow the novels and trying to do my own adventures in it just never seemed to work. All my friends and I read the books and I just wasn't as good as Weiss & Hickman.

Then they released Time of the Dragon, which was set on Taladas instead of Ansalon and I fell in love with it. Roman Empire Minotaurs, Tiger Clan Elves, gnomes sailing on lakes of lava, my favorite BBEG in Count Mallarchus, the Gnomish Legion of the Dead. The whole thing was just weird and different and felt a lot more free and open in a way that the mainstream Dragonlance stuff never did.

It was definitely my favorite 2e campaign I ran back in the day and another really awesome, totally underrated TSR product that's pretty much just been forgotten over the years.