My son, my daughter, and I used to enjoy playing D&D, sometimes with one or more of my nephews and my son’s best friend.  The story of Queen Elleena of Aerithraine came right out of our D&D campaign.  Aerithraine was the most powerful country and one of the few relatively safe places in a world full of ogres, dragons, monsters, and demons.

I even had a little figure of Queen Elleena, though she had been designed as a character from an official D&D game.  She’s sitting on the shelf just to my left as I write this, just beneath a dragon and a little left of Darth Vader.

I’ve never thrown away any piece of story that I’ve come up with.  I still have a few of them from our game that may end up in a future Eaglethorpe Buxton story and pieces of my other stories will become parts of my new books.