Wizards of the Coast Is Bringing the Authentic Creators of ‘Dragonlance’ Again

Whereas Dragonlance has endured as one of the crucial beloved worlds created for the D&D universe, with dozens upon dozens of novels fleshing out Krynn ever since Margaret Weis and Laura and Tracy Hickman kicked off the setting 41 years in the past. However in D&D‘s trendy period, it’s been extra of the Dragonlance novels which have thrived quite than as an formally supported tabletop setting. Now, that could be about to alter.

Late yesterday (through Polygon), Dan Ayoub—Wizards of the Coast’s newest head of the D&D franchise after sequence stalwarts, inventive director Chris Perkins and sport director Jeremy Crawford, retired and left for Crucial Position’s Darrington Press imprint—shared an image of himself with Weis and the Hickmans, alongside actor and D&D fanatic (and even perhaps extra significantly pertinent right here, Dragonlance fanatic) Joe Manganiello, on the tabletop sport’s places of work.

After I took over D&D, I had some very particular of us I needed to deliver again to The Desk. At this time, I had the consideration of welcoming these of us again residence. Wonderful issues forward @JoeManganiello @WeisMargaret @trhickman @Wizards_DnD #dungeonsanddragons pic.twitter.com/kujCsp7wuq

— Dan Ayoub (@Danayoub) October 23, 2025

“After I took over D&D, I had some very particular of us I needed to deliver again to the Desk,” Ayoub mentioned. “At this time, I had the consideration of welcoming these of us again residence. Wonderful issues forward.”

Though Ayoub didn’t particularly announce something, bringing collectively the Hickmans and Weis and placing Manganiello there in a literal Dragonlance shirt (he additionally beforehand labored with the trio on an tried Dragonlance TV challenge however confirmed it was dead final yr) appears to be closely implying that the setting will probably be dropped at the fore once more because the tabletop sport carries on its latest revised iteration. Though Dragonlance has been a staple of the D&D tabletop sport as a lot because it supplied the foundational work for D&D novels when the setting was launched in 1984, the fifth version of Dungeons & Dragons solely launched a single module (and an accompanying tabletop skirmish miniatures sport) for the setting, Shadow of the Dragon Queen, in 2022.

We at the moment don’t know what Wizards of the Coast’s plans could also be—it may not be for D&D tabletop particularly, however different tie-in Dragonlance tasks; it may, by some means, even be unrelated to the setting, and the creators of Dragonlance, alongside a well-known fan of Dragonlance, are merely doing something else with the corporate completely. However the odds on a return to Krynn in some format appear value rolling the cube on at this level.

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