Dragonlance There's A New Dragonlance Novel Coming

After all the legal drama between WotC, Margaret Weis, and Tracy Hickman recently, this probably won't surprise anybody. However, on Amazon, there is now a placeholder for a Dragonlance paperback novel set for a 29th July release this year.

The 2020 lawsuit referred to a trilogy - Dragons of Deceit, Dragons of Fate, and a third book.

As expected, it's by Weis and Hickman, and being published by Del Rey which is the sci-fi and fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House. It's 304 pages. And that's pretty much all we know!

After the lawsuit was dropped, Margaret Weis tweeted that exciting news was coming; it looks like this is that exciting news.

Dragonlance is a legacy D&D setting and best-selling novel series created in the mid-1980s by TSR, the then-owners of Dungeons & Dragons.

 

[M.L. Martin]

Didn't the lawsuit describe the working title of the first book as Dragons of Deceit? That's the title of DL9, the module that covers the expedition to Sanction, and Weis & Hickman have never written about what happened to Gilthanas and Silvara in Sanction.

 

[diceexmachina]

I think this all but confirms that tomorrow's setting announcement is 5e Dragonlance.

 

[Parmandur]

Yes very short by today's standards, but also quite short by earlier Dragonlance novel standards - the first one is 448 pages, and most are around 400 pages.

Not really looking forward to it, I have to say. Pretty much everything that was ever cool about Dragonlance got trashed in one of the (many) later novels.

My expectations are low, but my interest is piqued. I am happy that the legal action was resolved amicably, that left a bad taste in my mouth.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The 2020 lawsuit referred to a trilogy - Dragons of Deceit, Dragons of Fate, and a third book.

Dragons of Non-Disparagement Clause

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I think this all but confirms that tomorrow's setting announcement is 5e Dragonlance.

There have been a lot of Dragonlance novels. Since the 1980s, they have rarely coincided with the release of new Dragonlance product.

Tomorrow's announcement could be dragons, could be Dragonlance, could be Planescape, could be Manual of the Planes, could be an undead book, could be a Magic the Gathering book, it could be the WotC My Little Pony RPG. There's enough tea leaves around to make anything possible.

It's also possible -- and hear me out here, folks -- that it'll be something completely surprising until Amazon pulls an Amazon.

 

[innerdude]

Not that any of you care, but "Innerdude's Official Dragonlance Canon" is exactly 8 novels:

• Autumn Twilight / Winter Night / Spring Dawning
• Time / War / Test of the Twins
• Legend of Huma + Kaz the Minotaur

Even that is a product more of nostalgia remembering what it was like reading them for the first time at age 14 than on the actual merits of the writing.

Everything else I would categorize as "legends," in the same vein as Disney relegating all of the Star Wars expanded universe novels to "legends." I read Dragons of Summer Flame and the War of Souls trilogy. Very much "meh."

As such, I find myself with barely a flicker of excitement at new Dragonlance novels.

The best writing Weis and Hickman ever produced were the 3rd and 4th novels of the Death Gate cycle, Fire Sea and Serpent Mage respectively. Fire Sea to this day is easily in my top 10 fantasy novels ever. The world building in that novel was spectacular beyond belief, and Jonathan the Lazar is an unbelievably cool character concept.

 

[vecna00]

I'm mostly just happy we're getting more novels, I think it's good for the hobby in general and I'll at least try reading it, time permitting.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

There have been a lot of Dragonlance novels. Since the 1980s, they have rarely coincided with the release of new Dragonlance product.

Tomorrow's announcement could be dragons, could be Dragonlance, could be Planescape, could be Manual of the Planes, could be an undead book, could be a Magic the Gathering book, it could be the WotC My Little Pony RPG. There's enough tea leaves around to make anything possible.

It's also possible -- and hear me out here, folks -- that it'll be something completely surprising until Amazon pulls an Amazon.

Totally with you here; there's a lot of things tomorrow can be based on the hints we have, leaving us almost back at square one!