number of unsold dice into landfill, WotC sold the rights to the game to SFR, Inc. By 2020, SFR had produced five more races — bringing the total to 14 — and completed several sets of promotional dice. Dragon Dice fiction Two short works of fiction accompanied gaming accessories, Tome of the Tarvanehl and Heart of Stone and Flame. The Dice Commander's Manual also included short snippets of fiction as flavor text. Several full-length paperback novels were written to promote the game: In 1996, TSR published Cast of Fate by Allen Varney, a 310-page book that contained a new ivory Dragonslayer die in a hole cut through the pages of the book in the bottom right corner with all text arranged to accommodate the hole. TSR planned to publish Army of the Dead by Edo Van Belkom in 1997. It was also supposed to contain a unique die. With the sale of TSR to WotC and WotC's lack of interest in Dragon Dice, publication was shelved indefinitely. WotC eventually returned the rights to Van Belkom at his request, and the book was published in 2003 without a special die by Prime Books. A third novel, Time of the Champions by Ed Stark, was advertised by TSR before its demise but was never published. Chill Wind by Joseph Joiner was released in 2011, but Joiner passed away prior to releasing a sequel. In 2020, SFR partnered with TreeShaker Books to revitalize the literary universe. Cast of Fate was revised and rereleased; this new edition included Tome of the Tarvanehl and Heart of Stone and Flame. It also included Thunderfist and the Dragon which is a prequel to Chill Wind and which utilized flavor text written by Joseph Joiner that had been inserted in the version 3 rules booklet and which was expanded upon by Christopher D. Schmitz to complete the novella. In 2020, Treeshaker Books released Rise and Fall of the Obsidian Grotto, and Ashes of Ailushurai, both by Christopher D. Schmitz. In 2021, Treeshaker Books released Rise of the Champions by Christopher D. Schmitz and re-released Army of the Dead with Schmitz having revised Van Belkom's original edition and adding roughly 30% new content; Thunderfist and the Dragon was released as a free digital download, and Chill Wind's sequel was released. Eye of the Storm was a cowritten novel by Christopher D. Schmitz and Sherif Guirgas. Tales of the First