While Dragonlance has endured as one of the most 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 ago. But in D&D‘s modern era, it’s been more of the Dragonlance novels that have thrived rather than as an officially supported tabletop setting. Now, that might be about to change.
Late yesterday (via Polygon), Dan Ayoub—Wizards of the Coast’s latest head of the D&D franchise after series stalwarts, creative director Chris Perkins and game director Jeremy Crawford, retired and left for Critical Role’s Darrington Press imprint—shared a picture of himself with Weis and the Hickmans, alongside actor and D&D enthusiast (and perhaps even more particularly pertinent here, Dragonlance enthusiast) Joe Manganiello, at the tabletop game’s offices.
When I took over D&D, I had some very specific folks I wanted to bring back to The Table. Today, I had the honor of welcoming these folks back home. Amazing things ahead @JoeManganiello @WeisMargaret @trhickman @Wizards_DnD #dungeonsanddragons pic.twitter.com/kujCsp7wuq
— Dan Ayoub (@Danayoub) October 23, 2025
“When I took over D&D, I had some very specific folks I wanted to bring back to the Table,” Ayoub said. “Today, I had the honor of welcoming these folks back home. Amazing things ahead.”
Although Ayoub didn’t specifically announce anything, bringing together the Hickmans and Weis and putting Manganiello there in a literal Dragonlance shirt (he also previously worked with the trio on an attempted Dragonlance TV project but confirmed it was dead last year) seems to be heavily implying that the setting will be brought to the fore again as the tabletop game carries on its latest revised iteration. Although Dragonlance has been a staple of the D&D tabletop game as much as it provided the foundational work for D&D novels when the setting was introduced in 1984, the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons only released a single module (and an accompanying tabletop skirmish miniatures game) for the setting, Shadow of the Dragon Queen, in 2022.
We currently don’t know what Wizards of the Coast’s plans may be—it might not be for D&D tabletop specifically, but other tie-in Dragonlance projects; it could, somehow, even be unrelated to the setting, and the creators of Dragonlance, alongside a famous fan of Dragonlance, are simply doing something else with the company entirely. But the odds on a return to Krynn in some format seem worth rolling the dice on at this point.
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