

She asked Salvatore if he could create something different, set within the Forgotten Realms. Mary Kirchoff, Managing Editor at TSR’s books department, liked it but it wasn’t quite what they were looking for.

Salvatore’s story started with him sending them a manuscript for something else he had been working on. Things moved fast in the ’80s, especially so at then-D&D publisher TSR, who was riding the wave with their popular tabletop RPG. It started in 1988 when the first book, The Crystal Shard, was released it was also Salvatore’s first published novel. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Why Icewind Dale Is So Important To Dungeons & Dragons The Origin Storyīefore we had “The Witcher” series, D&D fans had the Icewind Dale series by R.A.
