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riot the outsider
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Posted - 08 Oct 2007 :  19:01:54  Show Profile Send riot the outsider a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
Does anyone know what the first FR book every was?

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Posted - 08 Oct 2007 :  19:07:49  Show Profile  Visit turox's Homepage Send turox a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I know that the first novel was Darkwalker on Moonshae.

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riot the outsider
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Posted - 08 Oct 2007 :  19:36:01  Show Profile Send riot the outsider a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Thats by douglas niles though I thought it would be a book by Ed greenwood since he created the FR world.

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quote:
Originally posted by riot the outsider

Thats by douglas niles though I thought it would be a book by Ed greenwood since he created the FR world.



The Niles book already existed; it was originally going to be British Dragginglance. They decided to repackage it, so to speak, to have a book out when the game world went live.

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Posted - 08 Oct 2007 :  22:32:13  Show Profile  Visit J D Dunsany's Homepage Send J D Dunsany a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

quote:
Originally posted by riot the outsider

Thats by douglas niles though I thought it would be a book by Ed greenwood since he created the FR world.



The Niles book already existed; it was originally going to be British Dragginglance. They decided to repackage it, so to speak, to have a book out when the game world went live.



I've heard this mentioned before and I'm quite curious about it. Dragonlance was already selling (pretty flipping well, as it happens) in the UK at the time FR was coming out. Were TSR really intending to do a British brand in the same universe and everything? That just seems utterly incredible (in its meaning of 'unbelievable') to me.

If you can point me to some information on this (and I appreciate we're not so much drifting as 'plunging' off-topic here), I'd greatly appreciate it.

Yours,

JDD

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Edited by - J D Dunsany on 08 Oct 2007 22:51:21
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See Jeff Grubb's discussion here.

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J D Dunsany
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Originally posted by The Sage

See Jeff Grubb's discussion here.




Thanks, Sage. Very interesting stuff.

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The Crytsal Shard was the 2nd book



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