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Message: <blockquote data-quote="an_idol_mind" data-source="post: 5800115" data-attributes="member: 43749">Fun story about this article: it was originally written up as a big campaign expansion for the Council of Wyrms set. The whole western continent was supposed to be a human-dominated area rife with dragon slayers, with a new map and everything.The problem is that when I wrote the article I didn't have a computer, so I punched it all up on a typewriter. I was in high school and didn't realize how important making copies of everything was. The original article got sent back to me with revision suggestions, and the revision got lost either in the mail or at WotC offices. The article got rewritten from scratch, and a lot of the setting info I had come up with got lost. As it turned out, the setting stuff was going to be cut anyway, since it was a case of me trying to shoehorn my homebrew game into an article rather than providing the magazine with something that actually applied to Council of Wyrms.Between the first article getting lost and the revision getting cut down, the process of getting this article pounded out from my typewriter to print was a bit over a year and a half. Lesson learned: always keep backups.I don't know what experiences others have had with the editors of this era of Dragon, but it's worth noting that those guys were really kind in all my interactions with them. I had a lot more enthusiasm and talent, and they tended to give very good criticism in their rejections. They didn't do form rejections all that often in those days, and they sent me a nice congratulatory letter when they finally chose to publish something of mine - again after being very helpful with edit suggestions, turning this particular article from a kludged-together monstrosity that would have taken up way too much space and appealed to very few readers to a smaller article that might have actually had some use to the folks who played Council of Wyrms.</blockquote>

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