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.

 

[RAKNAAK]

5E had so much potential in the first 5 or so years, then around the turn of the decade the course was altered and its kind of been a crap show ever since. The newer Destiny trilogy didn't really interest me, after I learned about the lawsuits and the extreme amount of meddling WotC did in the story/world, but a free reign exploring of Huma, Magius, and Kaz would have my interest. I hope Hasbro has almost zero involvement in this trilogy, just let W&H do their thing.

I do not believe Kaz will be in this.

 

[Queer Venger]

Good. for them. DL and the Deaths gate cycle remain my favorites and Im about to reread deaths gate.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Finished the book. I have a single not about the ending. A tad Deus Ex Machina for me but that's fine. A bigger nit about who lives and/or dies. I had hopes that certain changes might be made but aren't, but I get it.

As for those worried about the new Huma/Magius book retconning the old stuff. I guess keep worrying. I can't say anything with this novel really negates it being a full a retcon. Perhaps it will be set before they meet Kaz? IDK. It's wait and see.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I remember when I was reading the third book (the first I read) Tas and Flint were talking in a city, and Tasselholft wanted to explore certain desserted streets (around the tower of hight sorcery with a cursed fear effect). Later other character suggested to hire kenders to clean those streets (but if they were too near).

In D&D rules, even in 2nd Ed there were reincarnation and resurrection spells, but I don't remember heroes of Dragonlance enjoy this, and lord Soth was human again, but that was a totally special case.

* Vecna and Chaos distrust and hate each other, but that doesn't mean any wicked deal wasn't possible. Maybe Mr.C could be sent to the demiplane of dread where it could cause too many troubles for the Dark Powers. At least these would be too busy while Vecna gets ready for his future revenge.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I don't think the Dark Powers could hold Chaos. It is basically an Overdeity.

 

[M.L. Martin]

I don't think the Dark Powers could hold Chaos. It is basically an Overdeity.

And it's been confirmed from the original Black Box that Greater Powers can come and go from Ravenloft as they please (see the entry for the Horn of Valhalla). Since Chaos is (depending on your interpretation) somewhere between high-end Greater Power and Fundamental Cosmic Force, he's pretty much free.

When I first found out about the secret of what happened to Krynn-W&H in the War of Souls, I speculated half-seriously that Takhisis had sent the rest of Krynn to join Soth ...

 

[EthanSental]

Finished the book. I have a single not about the ending. A tad Deus Ex Machina for me but that's fine. A bigger nit about who lives and/or dies. I had hopes that certain changes might be made but aren't, but I get it.

As for those worried about the new Huma/Magius book retconning the old stuff. I guess keep worrying. I can't say anything with this novel really negates it being a full a retcon. Perhaps it will be set before they meet Kaz? IDK. It's wait and see.

Great feedback without giving anything away, nicely done! I’m on chapter 35 with less than 3 hours left in my audiobook version and I can’t tell which way things are going and who, like you mentioned above.

One good thing about this novel and the previous 2 in the series is it and me on dmsguild looking for DragonLance products and also search eBay for older DL stuff to mine for content.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I don’t, the whole age of mortals did not sit well with me, and at a wider scope it killed DL, well done TSR

This isn't remotely true. Dragonlance was already moribund in the 2nd edition era as a setting. The SAGA setting was the last attempt to revive it before they licensed it out externally. Under the licensed creators the RPG setting was more vibrant and alive in the early 2000s than it had been throughout the 1990s. TSR "killed" Dragonlance as a D&D setting because it wasn't selling after the original modules. It became dominated by its novels, which still sold well. James Lowder posted on these very forums that Hasbro/WoTC killed its novel lines for reasons that were not financial. (They wanted to get out of the novel business).

 

[mamba]

This isn't remotely true. Dragonlance was already moribund in the 2nd edition era as a setting. The SAGA setting was the last attempt to revive it before they licensed it out externally. Under the licensed creators the RPG setting was more vibrant and alive in the early 2000s than it had been throughout the 1990s. TSR "killed" Dragonlance as a D&D setting because it wasn't selling after the original modules.

eh, if they killed it because it was not selling well then there would not have been an Age of Mortals to begin with.

The Age of Mortals split the fanbase with most rejecting it. Much of the 3e content was an expansion of the original adventure path and general setting material that works for both ages, the Age of Mortals never took off, and in 5e we are also back to the war, before the Age of Mortals (4e died before it got to DL). That tells you something about which Age has the fans and which does not…

The AoM was one big self-inflicted wound, to me it killed the setting. If to you the setting never recovered from it and spent the rest of its life in a wheelchair, fine.

 

[M.L. Martin]

eh, if they killed it because it was not selling well then there would not have been an Age of Mortals to begin with.

They only got the Age of Mortals because DoSF did so well in presales that the fans on TSR staff (including Harold Johnson, co-creator of Dragonlance) got the go-ahead to do a relaunch under certain parameters set by marketing. (My source for this is Steve Miller, who was part of the original Fifth Age design team and who posted this repeatedly in public fora back in the day.)

You don't have to like the Age of Mortals--I have my own issues with the War of Souls and resulting "5.5th Age"--but it's tough to blame it for killing a setting that was dead as a gameline and had already floundered after two prior 'relaunch' efforts (Taladas and Tales of the Lance).

As for the revisiting, I think it's safe to say that most of the audience for DL that TSR and WotC has been trying to chase is less invested in the setting than in the War of the Lance, Heroes of the Lance, and the original six novels. Not to mention the politics of the setting being so closely identified with Weis & Hickman ...