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

Whereas Dragonlance has endured as some of the 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 fashionable period, it’s been extra of the Dragonlance novels which have thrived reasonably than as an formally supported tabletop setting. Now, that may be about to vary.

Late yesterday (by way of Polygon), Dan Ayoub—Wizards of the Coast’s newest head of the D&D franchise after collection stalwarts, artistic director Chris Perkins and recreation director Jeremy Crawford, retired and left for Crucial Function’s Darrington Press imprint—shared an image of himself with Weis and the Hickmans, alongside actor and D&D fanatic (and even perhaps extra notably pertinent right here, Dragonlance fanatic) Joe Manganiello, on the tabletop recreation’s workplaces.

After I took over D&D, I had some very particular of us I wished to deliver again to The Desk. In the present day, I had the respect of welcoming these of us again residence. Superb 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 wished to deliver again to the Desk,” Ayoub stated. “In the present day, I had the respect of welcoming these of us again residence. Superb 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 undertaking however confirmed it was dead final 12 months) appears to be closely implying that the setting might be dropped at the fore once more because the tabletop recreation carries on its latest revised iteration. Though Dragonlance has been a staple of the D&D tabletop recreation 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 recreation) for the setting, Shadow of the Dragon Queen, in 2022.

We presently 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 initiatives; 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 totally. However the odds on a return to Krynn in some format appear value rolling the cube on at this level.

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