In 1984, TSR published the first Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

They collaborated over a weekend, writing the prologue for the first five chapters of the first novel, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, based on the module Dragons of Despair.

After two years of development, TSR released Dragons of Autumn Twilight as a supplement to the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game.

In 2008, Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, an animated movie based on the first Dragonlance book of the same name, was released direct-to-video.

In the Autumn of 2011, Barry Town enjoyed their most successful Welsh Cup campaign in several seasons ; defeating rivals Merthyr Town at Penydarren Park and winning away at Haverfordwest County in extra-time, before the Dragons were narrowly beaten 3 – 2 at Conference National outfit Newport County.

Nobody else can tell it right .” " Project Overlord " grew into a trilogy of novels ( Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning, from 1984 – 85 ) and 15 linked modules, and it got a new name: Dragonlance.

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Thus when Paladine is first encountered in the novels, albeit incognito, in the preface to Dragons of Autumn Twilight, he calls himself " Fizban " and represents himself to be a clumsy and absent-minded wizard.

In the first chapters of Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Raistlin Majere notes that this constellation, as well as the constellation for Takhisis, were missing, suggesting that both deities were physically present on Krynn in their avatar forms.

Actor Neil Ross voiced Fizban ( Paladine ) in the animated Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight movie,

" The first novel publication featuring a kender was in the book Dragons of Autumn Twilight, published in November 1984.

In Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Kender are described as " small boned " and rarely growing over more than 4 feet tall.

First appeared in Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

Kiefer Sutherland headlined the animated movie Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, voicing Raistlin, who was one of the main characters in the film.

Introduced in the first book of the original Chronicles Trilogy, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman in 1984 ; Goldmoon has become a recurring character for over 16 years in multiple Dragonlance novels and series, either as a protagonist or as a supporting character.

However, the staff was not accepted as a valid proof by the tribe, and as related by Weis and Hickman in Dragons of Autumn Twilight ( 1984 ), moments before he was stoned by the tribe, Goldmoon embraced him, and they both vanish from the village.

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman introduce Goldmoon in chapter 3 of Dragons of Autumn Twilight ( 1984 ), titled " Knight of Solamnia.

The game is based on the first Dragonlance campaign module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Dragons of Despair, and the first Dragonlance novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

Originally published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, only two years after the first role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was published, this edition is now long out of print.

Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as D & D or DnD ) is a fantasy role-playing game ( RPG ) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. ( TSR ).

However, this did not give them enough capital to publish the rules for Dungeons & Dragons and, worried that other companies would be able to publish similar projects first, the two convinced acquaintance Brian Blume to join TSR in December 1973 as an equal one-third partner.

Dungeons & Dragons was first released by TSR in January 1974 as a boxed set.

In 1977, a new version of D & D, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( AD & D ), was first published.

The first game released was Quest for the Rings !, with gameplay somewhat similar to Dungeons & Dragons, and a storyline reminiscent of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

The first commercially available RPG, Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ), was inspired by fantasy literature and the wargaming hobby and was published in 1974.

One of the company's first great successes was Eye of the Beholder ( 1990 ), a real-time role-playing video game based on the Dungeons & Dragons license, developed for SSI.

David C. Sutherland III created the modern-day wemic for a game product called Monster Cards Set 3, a first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons supplement released in 1982 ; with the artwork for the original depiction being undertaken by Jim Roslof.

The Dragons missed out on a victory as the first ever French club to make it to a Challenge Cup Final at Wembley Stadium in 2007, losing 30-8 against St. Helens in front of 84, 000 people.

* Bel ( Dungeons & Dragons ), lord of the first of The Nine Hells, in Dungeons and Dragons games

by David Cook, was published the same year, and featured the first appearance by Vecna, formerly a mythic lich in Dungeons & Dragons lore, now promoted to demigod status.

In the first Kingdom Hearts and in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Mushu is a summonable character, and in Kingdom Hearts II, the movie is featured as a playable world named " The Land of Dragons ", with the plot being changed to accommodate the game's protagonists ( Sora, Donald and Goofy ) and Mulan ( both as herself and as " Ping ") able to join the player's party as a skilled sword fighter.

Glaurung is the Father of Dragons in Tolkien's legendarium, and the first of the Urulóki, the Fire-drakes of Angband.

Tactical Studies Rules ( TSR ) was formed in 1973 as a partnership between Gary Gygax and Don Kaye, who scraped together $ 2, 400 for startup costs, to formally publish and sell the rules of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the first modern role-playing games ( RPG ).

The following year, the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( AD & D ) game was released, with its first product being the Player's Handbook, followed by a series of six adventure modules that had previously only been used in tournaments.

In 1989, the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition was released, with a new Dungeon Master's Guide, Player's Handbook, the first three volumes of the new Monstrous Compendium, The Complete Fighter's Handbook, The Complete Thief's Handbook, and a new campaign setting, Spelljammer, all released in the same year.

The Chunichi Dragons takes the advantage of such system in the first Climax Series-implemented season, finishing second in regular season, but swept Hanshin Tigers and League Champion Yomiuri Giants in Central League Climax Series, and beat the Champion of Pacific League Climax Series Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to claim their first Japan Series in 52 years.

During her research for Here Be Dragons, the first book in the series, she became fascinated with the complexity of the role of women in medieval society ; for example, Welsh women at the time had a great deal more independence than their English women.

Here Be Dragons ( 1985 ) is the first of Penman's trilogy of novels about the medieval princes of Gwynedd.

As Penman explains: '“ After I ’ d finished Here Be Dragons, I knew I wanted to continue the story .... At first I ’ d planned to write one book in which Simon de Montfort would share top billing with Llewelyn Fawr ’ s grandson, Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, who later wed Simon ’ s daughter.

In 2003, the Garrison High School football team, the Bulldogs, won the first ever state championship for the town when they defeated the Bangs Dragons 27-0.

Asprin's ofttimes co-author, Jody Lynn Nye, has completed one further Griffen McCandles novel, Dragons Deal, and may continue the Myth Adventures series.

Of the novel, Penman states, “ I think Dragons is so popular because it was virgin territory for most readers.

* Sharon Penman-Here Be Dragons ( novel )

They returned to write Dragons of Summer Flame for TSR in 1995, thinking it would be their final Dragonlance novel.

Gotlieb won the Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel A Judgement of Dragons.

The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 animated film produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and loosely combining the speculative natural history book of the same name ( 1979 ) by Peter Dickinson with the novel The Dragon and the George ( 1976 ) by Gordon R. Dickson.

Weis returned to Dragonlance in 1995 with Dragons of Summer Flame, written with Hickman, and her next project was a solo novel called The Soulforge, based on her favorite character from the trilogy, the dark wizard Raistlin.

Most recently, she has completed the third novel in the Dragonvarld trilogy for Tor, Master of Dragons.

She has finished work on the first novel in the Lost Chronicles series with co-author Hickman, entitled Dragons of the Dwarven Depths, which was released in July 2006.

A novel trilogy, The Year of Rogue Dragons set ( The Rage, The Rite, and The Ruin ) by Richard Lee Byers, as well as a game accessory, Dragons of Faerûn, details the exploits and deeds of several dragons as the Dracorage swept the continent.

* In Bryan Davis's novel series Dragons in Our Midst and Oracles of Fire, the Nephillim were offspring of fallen angels, known as Watchers, and human women.

* In the novel A Dance With Dragons Roose Bolton believes that his bastard son Ramsay Snow murdered his half-brother Domeric and will murder any more children that Roose has.

A third solo adventure, also by Baron, was announced and promoted first as another miniseries, then as a graphic novel ( now subtitled " Dragons in Eden "), but was left unpublished when NOW folded.

It can shapeshift into a goblin ( see Barghest ( Dungeons & Dragons )-this is an " Eberron " D & D novel ).

A Feast for Crows was published months later, and the concurrent novel A Dance with Dragons was released on July 12, 2011.

Martin noted that A Feast for Crows would focus on " Westeros, King's Landing, the riverlands, Dorne, and the Iron Islands ," and that the next novel, A Dance with Dragons, would cover " events in the east and north.

The parallel novel A Dance with Dragons was released on July 12, 2011.

Phileas Fogg is mentioned briefly in James A. Owen's novel, Here, There Be Dragons, after the characters have a run-in with Captain Nemo and The Nautilus.

The Age of Mortals starts at the end of Dragons of Summer Flame ( 1996 ) novel, with the departure of the krynnish gods and the banishment of magic and clerical powers known to Krynn until that moment.