D&D General New Summary and Release Date for 'Dragons of Deceit'

There's a new Amazon Kindle page for Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's new Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Deceit with a release date of August 9, 2022. There has been an older Amazon page for the book for a while, with a now-expired release date of July 2021. The existence of the new trilogy from the Dragonlance Chronicles authors was revealed in 2020 when they initiated a lawsuit against WotC...

There's a new Amazon Kindle page for Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's new Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Deceit with a release date of August 9, 2022.

There has been an older Amazon page for the book for a while, with a now-expired release date of July 2021. The existence of the new trilogy from the Dragonlance Chronicles authors was revealed in 2020 when they initiated a lawsuit against WotC for breach of contract.

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The book description reads as follows (typos are on the actual Kindle page):


The first new Dragonlance novel from Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman in over a decade, and featuring fan-favorite characters from the iconic first two trilogies, Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance Legends--books that brought a generation of readers into the fantasy fold.

Destina Rosethorn--as her name implies--believes herself to be very much a favored child of destiny. But when her father dis in the War of the Lance, her carefully-constructed world comes crashing down. Not only does she lost her beloved father, but the legacy he has left her: a wealthy fiance, and rule over the family lands and castle. With nothing left in the world to support her but wits and determination, she hatches a bold plan: to secure the Device of Time Journeying she read about in one of her father's books and prevent her father's death.

The last known holder of the Device was one of the Heroes of the Lance: the free-spirited kender, Tasselhoff Burrfoot. BUt when Destina arrives in Solace--home not only to Tas, but to fellow heroes Caramon and Tika Majere--she sets into motion a chain of events more deadly than she had ever anticipated: one that could change not only her personal history, but the fate of the entire world, allowing a previously-defeated evil to once again gain ascendancy.

 

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Well blow me down, the original blurb was real!

Destina Rosethorn—as her name implies—believes herself to be a favored child of destiny. But when her father dies in the War of the Lance, she watches her carefully constructed world come crashing down. Not only does she lose her beloved father but the legacy he has left her: the family lands and castle. To save her father, she hatches a bold plan—to go back in time and prevent his death.
First, she has to secure the Device of Time Journeying, last known to be in the possession of the spirited kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot. But to change time, she needs another magical artifact—the most powerful and dangerous artifact ever created. Destina’s quest takes her from the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin to the town of Solace and beyond, setting in motion a chain of disastrous events that threaten to divert the course of the River of Time, alter the past, and forever change the future.
 


Dire Bare

Legend
I think that is Hickman & Weiss branding, not WotC.
No . . . . Weis & Hickman aren't in control of how WotC decides to brand the novel.

We'll have to wait and see, but this implies (to me) that WotC will be rebooting Dragonlance and this story takes place in the "classic" or original setting. And since time travel is involved, it's possible the trilogy might serve as a bridge between the original and rebooted settings. Maybe.
 


The sypnosis talks about time travel and altered timeline. This may mean the possibility of uchronies or parallel worlds in the D&D multiverse, and this is very important for me because it would allow us a lot of creative freedom for our own games and fan fiction.

Flint the dwarf and Kas the kender will be skins in Fortnite thanks about a special gadget with size-shifter effects. (one of them to become a large kaiju or mecha).
 

Parmandur

Book-Friend
No . . . . Weis & Hickman aren't in control of how WotC decides to brand the novel.

We'll have to wait and see, but this implies (to me) that WotC will be rebooting Dragonlance and this story takes place in the "classic" or original setting. And since time travel is involved, it's possible the trilogy might serve as a bridge between the original and rebooted settings. Maybe.
WotC isn't involved with branding this novel, Weiss & Hickman have licensed the IP from WotC.
 

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