The first Dragonlance adventure module, Dragons of Despair, by Tracy Hickman, was published thirty years ago this month. In order to help promote the line, I wrote a short story for the March, 1984 issue of Dragon Magazine about my favorite character, Raistlin. The story was "The Test of the Twins". Interesting note: the editor of Dragon thought my original ending for the story was too dark, so I had to change it to make it "happy". (The story was later published with the original ending in a DL anthology.) The story generated more fan mail than Dragon had ever received about a piece of fiction and was one reason Tracy and I eventually decided to write the novel. This issue of Dragon also featured one of artist Denis Beauvais' famous "chess" pieces of cover art. Denis would later go on to draw the chapter headings for Dragons of Autumn Twilight.
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