Dragonlance New Dragonlance Novels from Weis and Hickman in 2026

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman announced a new trilogy of Dragonlance books titled Dragonlance Legacies with the first novel titled War Wizard.

Tracy Hickman made the announcement on his Facebook page this past weekend:

Just announced at Gencon: Margaret Weis and I will be writing a new trilogy: Dragonlance Legacies. First book: War Wizard

Margaret Weis’s Facebook announcement had a bit more detail:

Tracy and I are pleased to announce Dragonlance Legacies. The story of the legendary wizard, Magius, and his friendship and adventures with the Solamnic knight, Huma. Published by Random House Worlds. 2026.

Weis also answered a few questions giving us a bit more information.

• Weis and Hickman are writing the books together
• When asked if this will conflict with pre-existing lore established in Richard A. Knaak’s The Legend of Huma, Weis said “This is our story.”
• When asked if Hasbro was involved, Weis said “Random House Worlds is the publisher”
• The omnibus edition of Chronicles will be accompanied by an omnibus edition of Legends as well in 2025.

So far, the only new book officially announced through any publishers is Dragonlance Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Witner Night, Dragons of Spring Dawning omnibus edition coming in February 2025 (pre-order on Amazon through this affiliate link), but it may be several months until we get details on the Legends omnibus or the new trilogy.

 

[Dire Bare]

So . . . yes, this will conflict with Knaak's existing stories. Not a fan of Weis & Hickman breaking away from the existing canon of Dragonlance. They are the OG authors, but Dragonlance was a shared world with contributions from many writers, editors, game designers, and visual artists from Day One.

And yes, WotC is involved. They own Dragonlance lock, stock, and barrel. However, they might not be heavily involved in editing or oversight of "Classic" Dragonlance.

Still, I'll give it a read when War Wizard drops in 2026. I haven't been impressed with the recent Dragonlance Destinies trilogy so far (haven't read the third book yet), but W&H's books are a huge part of my tween years and I'm a sucker for the nostalgia of it.

I might go for those fancy omnibus editions too . . .

 

[Abstruse]

And yes, WotC is involved. They own Dragonlance lock, stock, and barrel. However, they might not be heavily involved in editing or oversight of "Classic" Dragonlance.

I didn't want to speculate in the article, but it seems like the question is being dodged because of the previous bad blood between Weis and Hickman and the team at WotC/Hasbro. Considering the lawsuit and everything.

But my speculation is that, since Wizards has lost their book publishing department in the big Hasbro layoffs, all of that oversight is going to Random House with them having a lot more freedom rather than being mostly done in-house at Wizards with Random House only printing and distributing and handling bookstore marketing and whatnot.

 

[Dire Bare]

I didn't want to speculate in the article, but it seems like the question is being dodged because of the previous bad blood between Weis and Hickman and the team at WotC/Hasbro. Considering the lawsuit and everything.

But my speculation is that, since Wizards has lost their book publishing department in the big Hasbro layoffs, all of that oversight is going to Random House with them having a lot more freedom rather than being mostly done in-house at Wizards with Random House only printing and distributing and handling bookstore marketing and whatnot.

That was my assumption also. But I doubt WotC's involvement is zero, even beyond simply agreeing to a license between all the parties involved.

They are likely exerting more control over the new Forgotten Realms and Spelljammer novels, and are treating "Classic Dragonlance" with a lighter hand.

I'm assuming they aren't keen on Weis & Hickman's current approach to Dragonlance, but don't want the bad publicity of a fight (or continuation of the drama over Dragonlance Destinies). So, let W&H have "Classic" Dragonlance, leaving WotC to maybe someday work on "New & Improved" Dragonlance.

 

[AstroCat]

Almost everything wotc touches now a days turns to dust, so this might actually be Dragonlance Dragonlance and not "wotc dragonlance" which is somewhat heartening and causes some slight optimism.

 

[R_J_K75]

new Forgotten Realms and Spelljammer novels

I missed this announcement, or maybe I just forgot but when was it? How many novels and when are they coming out?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

WotC should allow W&H to tell their own version of Dragonlance because this franchise was almost forgotten and thanks the new novels it can recover the lost brand power.

 

[R_J_K75]

Apparently the Spelljammer one is out already

Spelljammer Novel

 

[GiantBrainStudio]

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Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman announced a new trilogy of Dragonlance books titled Dragonlance Legacies with the first novel titled War Wizard.

Tracy Hickman made the announcement on his Facebook page this past weekend:


Margaret Weis’s Facebook announcement had a bit more detail:


Weis also answered a few questions giving us a bit more information.

• Weis and Hickman are writing the books together
• When asked if this will conflict with pre-existing lore established in Richard A. Knaak’s The Legend of Huma, Weis said “This is our story.”
• When asked if Hasbro was involved, Weis said “Random House Worlds is the publisher”
• The omnibus edition of Chronicles will be accompanied by an omnibus edition of Legends as well in 2025.

So far, the only new book officially announced through any publishers is Dragonlance Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Witner Night, Dragons of Spring Dawning omnibus edition coming in February 2025 (pre-order on Amazon through this affiliate link), but it may be several months until we get details on the Legends omnibus or the new trilogy.

Looking forward to this. I really like the new series which ties into Huma's story.

 

[Superchunk77]

I'm assuming they aren't keen on Weis & Hickman's current approach to Dragonlance, but don't want the bad publicity of a fight (or continuation of the drama over Dragonlance Destinies). So, let W&H have "Classic" Dragonlance, leaving WotC to maybe someday work on "New & Improved" Dragonlance.

WotC doing a "new and improved" anything makes me laugh.