Hi, friends!

This year is the 30th Anniversary of the publication of Dragons of Autumn Twilight. To commemorate, Tracy and i started a Facebook page called Dragonlance Legacy talking about how Dragonlance came to be. I've been posting some of my history there and I thought I would share it with you. Here's the first installment.

Happy 40th Birthday, D&D! I first played the game in 1982. I had read about it in an article in Publishers Weekly which described the phenomenal rise of TSR, Inc. I thought D&D sounded like a great game to play with my kids. I found a copy of the DMG at a hobby store and was immediately utterly baffled by the rules. A friend of mine offered to run the game. My kids and I had a wonderful time. I continued to be intrigued by the company. In 1983, when TSR ran an ad in PW looking for game editors, I applied for the job. They sent me a games editing test, which I flunked since to this day I still don't understand the rules. I was turned down for the job. However, due to fate, serendipity, or the gods of Krynn, that is not the end of the tale . . . (to be continued).