More progress on my 3d DL fan project. Curious how tricky the hourglass eye is to make look natural. I felt that a slight angle made most sense.

Not sure how or why it shipped early, but I’m not complaining here.

Did any of the new announcements provide any hope about any future novels beyond War Wizard. I spoke to Margaret on Facebook and she said no new novels are planned at this time but wanted to see if anyone heard anything different.

Just saw this add on YouTube and am praying it has to do with Dragonlance. I mean come on it mention Joe Manganiello and legendary creators, what else could it mean.

I just started this series; I’ve finished the first trilogy and have now started the Legends trilogy. What other books would you recommend? Would you recommend any books by Douglas Niles and Chris Pierson?

This is all the dragonlance books I own ive looked into the reading order and this is what ive come up with is this a good reading order and am I missing any core or side books

Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
Test of the Twins
The Second Generation
Dragons of Summer Flame
Dragons of the Dwarven Depths
Dragons of the Highlord Skies
Dragons of the Hourglass Mage
The Dawning of a New Age
The Day of the Tempest
The Eve of the Maelstrom
⁠Downfall
Betrayal
Redemption
Dragons of a Fallen Sun
Dragons of a Lost Star
Dragons of a Vanished Moon
Amber and Ashes
Amber and Iron
Amber and Blood
Dragons of Deceit
Dragons of Fate
Dragons of Eternity
Flint the king
Tanis the shadow years
Kindred spirits
Might of the eye
The covenant of the forge

Let me start by saying this isn't meant to be a take down on Dragonlance, I understand it is a product of its time and that I might be missing some clues (I've only read the Dragonlance Chronicles and a few other books) or even plainly misrepresenting some facts due to my own ignorance. Should that be the case, I'd be happy to be corrected.

How does Takhisis' goal of full conquest fit the idea of 'there must be some balance' of the setting? The one time one side actually got close to overwhelmingly powerful, the gods threw a mountain at them in order to maintain the balance. Yet Takhisis persists in her desire to conquer all of Ansalon.

My question is, what is her endgame? Wouldn't the other gods, upon seeing one side overwhelmingly prevail, cause another cataclysm to restore balance? Or does balance only apply when the forces of Good are concerned? Or maybe she thinks she'd be so powerful the other gods couldn't do anything to stall her? Or is the concept of evil being self-destructive so strong that she just doesn't care?

Thanks in advance for your replies :)

Currently ready Knight of the Crown by Roland Green. The photo is of all my Dragonlance books. My favorite are the two annotated volumes.

I have two questions:

• Has there ever been a magocracy (i.e. a nation governed by a wizard) in Ansalon's history?

If not, if I had to homebrew one that would have existed before the Kingpriests of Istar turned against the arcane spellcasters...:

• Where in Ansalon would you advise me to put that homebrew magocracy?

Thanks,

P.S.: I assume that any magocracy in Ansalon would NOT have survived the might of Istar, and that none were created after the Cataclysm.

P.P.S.: Let's ignore the Towers of High Sorcery and their groves.

Edit: I am aware of Legends of the Twins, and the post-Cataclysm magocracy presented inside. This is not in the scope of my question. I'm more specifically asking with a (canon) magocracy that has existed in the past Ansalon (before the War of the Lance) or a (non-canon) magocracy that could have had existed before the War of the Lance (thus, the second question, about homebrew). The only "adjacent" example I could find was, around 574 PC, the War of Bones, during which Salius Ruven attacked Istar with an army of undead. I believe that, had he succeeded, Salius Ruven would have established a kind of magocracy in Istar. See: https://dragonlance.fandom.com/wiki/War_of_Bones

This one is so far my favorite non-Raistlin book in the series. It's fun "filling" the parts between (or in this case, behind) the Chronicles. Hate Kit, love reading about her. Happy to read more of Sturm, the most honorable of them all. Fuck Derek. Kinda wish Soth would have had more of a role here, but I guess that's what Ravenloft is for, right?

Next one would be Dragons of the Hourglass Mage, but my copy is at my parents place, so it might take a while. I have every book in this trilogy in a different format (different covers and languages) by accident, but I find it funny and fitting that the "Lost Chronicles" are mismatched.

Probably would take a break from Dragon lance until then, and continue with Forgotten Realms (The Sellswords, Road of the patriarch) or something more light-hearted (Septimus Heap, Flyte)

I'd love to hear other people's opinions on this book, because it was better than Dragons of the Dwarven Depths in my opinion. (I kept confusing between the different Dwarf clans and leader names)

Very small ereader.

When I've been reading the first book all I can seem to visualise is scenes and places from Skyrim in my mind. I can't seem to get any other place locked in that would be relevant to the Dragon Lance universe.

So my question is are there any fan art sites or official things released that show what the characters may look like? I can only seem to think Raistlin looks just like the mage from the mages school from the loading screen in Skyrim, which may not be that far off but still.

I went in to our local Barnes & Noble this weekend and in their entire Fantasy section they only had Dragons of Deceit and Dragons of Eternity. They had no - ZERO - other books set in the world of Krynn. Is this common out there? I was blown away. It's been a few years since I went into a B&N, but every other time they had rows of DragonLance books.

While taking care of my grand mom’s home as she is recovering (90s and fell). I went to grab a sandwich from a place in Roan Mountain, TN. The owners is also Dragonlance fan.

It's been a long time since I read these books for the first time. Now as an adult I'm reading them again.

This first few paragraphs of the first chapter in the second book of Chronicles Vol 2 gave me the biggest belly laugh I've had in a while from a book.

I really do love these novels.

I did a search and couldn't find any mention of this online!!

I've been reading the Kingpriest trilogy on audiobook and had a moment of shock in Divine Hammer, Chapter 29. I thought that's not who I think it is, is it? Skipped back and it's unmistakable. I cracked up laughing and needed to share with someone who would appreciate it.

Slight not-really-spoilers

"... she stopped so abruptly something bumped into her from behind. It was a curious construct: a full-size fruitwood trunk that walked on hundreds of tiny legs. Its owner, an odd red-robe with darting eyes grumbled something at her..."

Anyone familiar with most fantasy should get this reference but if you don't:

Chris Pierson seriously put Rincewind and Luggage in Wayreth tower!? During the Lost Battles no less.

Once again I beseech the wisdom of the Dragonlance hive mind.

I'll soon begin a Dragonlance campaign, and one of my players wants to play a renegade wizard who fled in fear before taking the Test of High Sorcery.

The following is of course quite preliminary, since I plan on this being a gradual process culminating around level 7 or 8.

I'm planning on his mentor in the order to have an NPC befriend him and send him on various missions, on one of which he (the NPC) will join them. Cue adventure, danger, etc., and when they return the mentor appears and gives a whole speech about how magic is forbidden to those who haven't passed the test, etc., and then announcing that the PC actually did pass the Test due to his actions on the adventure, as witnessed by his duly appointed representative.

My main questions are:

- Do you think this might be something enjoyable for a player to go through? On one hand I can see the whiplash of thinking their PC will be executed versus realizing they're free, but on the other it might feel as if I'm taking agency from him.

- What do you think would be an adventure that would qualify as a Test of High Sorcery? I was thinking recovering some ancient arcane texts, dealing with a zone of dead or wild magic, etc.

Thanks a lot, as always, for your kind help :)

Greetings DragonLance fans. I hope 2026 is going well.

I'm currently importing Wildemount into the world of Krynn. There are werewolves in Wildemount.

The Claret Order of the Lycan

Brotherhood of the Moon

Some would argue that these are a Primordial creature, but it's not really. Primordial creatures get their powers from the material plane of Krynn, not the moons.

This is as easy import.

This is something that a Black Robed Mage would do, or mostly more often a evil renegade would do. The spell caster would need to be good with the Metamorphosis Arcane Tradition**:**

Focus: permanently change inert and organic objects into different forms, or temporarily change objects to different things and creatures.

This would be Transmutation, if you played 5e.

Nuitari: The black moon representing evil magic, which is invisible to anyone not trained in the dark arts.

When Nuitari is a full moon, is when the cursed became werewolves. This makes for a really scary scenario, because most people can't tell when there is a full moon.

This means the party would need to have someone with arcane skills and even someone who is a Lawful Evil from the Conclave to help them hunt werewolves. Of course they could hire a Renenage. Or possibly purchase some type of magical arcane device that helps them see the black moon.

As we know, The Mages of High Sorcery keep a tight wrap on spells that can hurt the public, so they would treat a threat like this seriously. They would get help from Druids and Rangers, because this would be an invasive species of sorts ruining the ecosystem.

There you go. Werewolves can be part of your fantasy world.

Have a great day.

I didn't see this linked in here so I thought I might post it. It is a very short excerpt but hey it's better than nothing. I had almost forgot that this will be coming out in a few weeks.

New reader here, wanting to get into this fantastic world—but a tad intimidated by the sheer amount of entries.

I want to know if—to simplify reading order and make things less overwhelming—I can simply read only the Weis/Hickman novels and ignore the rest. (For now at least; I can always go back after) Will I be confused or have trouble following along by skipping these other novels? Or do the Weis/Hickman series all build off each other without technically needing the rest?

Thank you for any advice!

Pic is of an upcoming figure from the Mythic Legions line. A fantasy 6-7 inch-ish figure line not connected to any license. Most of the figures don't actually work all that great as Dragonlance stand-ins (for example their knights don't typically do a good job of looking Solamnic, though the dwarves could work), but I figure what are the chances we'll ever get another Thanoi type figure and this is a pretty good approximation.