Dragonlance What Happened To The New DRAGONLANCE Trilogy?

[Morrus]

Amazon has had a page for the first book in Weis & Hickman's new Dragonlance trilogy since January this year. However, that page has a release date of July 29th.

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The trilogy includes the new novels Dragons of Deceit, Dragons of Fate, and a third book, all published by Del Rey, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

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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...

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There was an announcement at the end of January about the multi-year license that Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman had secured with D&D.

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We've known about it for a while due to lawsuits and product placeholder pages on Amazon, but Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have just announced their new Dragonlance series of novels! It returns 'the most beloved characters from the original novels', as well as a 'new, strong protagonist'...

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And, of course, a big legal dispute back in 2020 which was later resolved.

Dragonlance - Dragonlance's Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Are Suing WotC for Breach of Contract

For fans of the Dragonlance D&D setting, there's some mixed news which has just hit a court in Washington State: it seems that there's a new Dragonlance trilogy of books which was (until recently) being written; but we may never see them. On 16th October 2020, a lawsuit was filed in the US...

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July 29th has come and gone. Looks like there is more to this story!

 

[Richards]

Maybe that's where the "Deceit" in the title of the first novel comes into play....

Johnathan

 

[humble minion]

Amazon's release dates for novels have been known to contain, from time to time, a certain element of ... bare-faced lies?

Also, it's quite likely that the books have been caught in the same shipping limbo that everything else has over the past year. Even if the ebooks are ready to go, WotC will want to release the electronic and physical versions on the same day.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Probably holding release until the new campaign book can be released as well.

 

[Burnside]

Amazon's release dates for novels have been known to contain, from time to time, a certain element of ... bare-faced lies?

Also, it's quite likely that the books have been caught in the same shipping limbo that everything else has over the past year. Even if the ebooks are ready to go, WotC will want to release the electronic and physical versions on the same day.

It's not being published by WotC. It's being published by Del Ray/Penguin as part of a licensing deal.

 

[Burnside]

Probably holding release until the new campaign book can be released as well.

There isn't one.

 

[Alzrius]

There isn't one.

I suspect @DarkCrisis meant Fizban's Treasury of Dragons.

 

[Burnside]

I suspect @DarkCrisis meant Fizban's Treasury of Dragons.

Ah. I don’t think that book has anything to do with these novels.

 

[DarkCrisis]

I suspect @DarkCrisis meant Fizban's Treasury of Dragons.

No, an actual DL book. Probably announced later on.

 

[JEB]

Probably holding release until the new campaign book can be released as well.

Considering they just made a big deal out of how novels aren't canon anymore, I doubt they plan on tying any new Dragonlance release to the novels at this point. (Might have been the plan in the past, admittedly; but I doubt it now.)