D&D General 50th Anniversary WotC live panel at PAX Unplugged 2023.

[vecna00]

It was the second moat popular Aetting in use as of the last time WotC released any info on it, so yes, by default it is since the Forgotten Realms is open for use on the DMsGuild.

Side note: It would be awesome if they discussed some of those campaign setting survey results again. I'd like to see if anything changed since the last time they really talked about it.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Is it?

I mean, what other possible contenders are still left? Mystara might be the only one left that's even remotely close. And as much as Dark Sun has its vocal adherents, there's no way its short time in the (dark) sun can come near to decades of Greyhawk products.

 

[Parmandur]

Side note: It would be awesome if they discussed some of those campaign setting survey results again. I'd like to see if anything changed since the last time they really talked about it.

Those old results are specifically gone from their site...wouldn't expect them to share that too freely anymore, alas.

 

[Parmandur]

I mean, what other possible contenders are still left? Mystara might be the only one left that's even remotely close. And as much as Dark Sun has its vocal adherents, there's no way its short time in the (dark) sun can come near to decades of Greyhawk products.

I mean, old WotC surveys aside, just the 1E/2E sales numbers show Greyhawk as number two to Forgotten Realms in terms of slaes...and by a lot.

 

[vecna00]

Those old results are specifically gone from their site...wouldn't expect them to share that too freely anymore, alas.

Well that's just poopie

 

[Parmandur]

Well that's just poopie

The info is still around the web, if you poke around. But WotC isn't preserving it.

 

[vecna00]

The info is still around the web, if you poke around. But WotC isn't preserving it.

I went looking for it and the algorithm looked down and whispered "No."

 

[Parmandur]

I went looking for it and the algorithm looked down and whispered "No."

Well, lo and behold:

Chris Perkins speaking at Game Hole Con 2015 said the following, and I think this might be even more true than it was then:

Home-brew vs. published -- A great bulk of those who play D&D run homebrew settings. But of those home-brew campaigns, over half of those homebrewers do pillage from other settings ... 15% or 50% of the world they've created has hawked stuff from other worlds. They're comfortable pillaging our products for ideas. That homebrew number, I can't remember the exact percentage, but I think it's like 55% homebrew. And then it's like 35% Forgotten Realms, and then everything else ... Very few people right now, turns out, running Dark Sun campaigns. A sliver of a sliver. Very few people running Hollow World campaigns. Very few people are running Mystara campaigns. It pretty much goes Homebrew, Forgotten Realms, I think Greyhawk's at 5% ands then everybody else is at 2% or 1%.

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[vecna00]

Well, lo and behold:

Chris Perkins speaking at Hame Hole Con 2015 said the following, and I think this might be even more true than it was then:

Home-brew vs. published -- A great bulk of those who play D&D run homebrew settings. But of those home-brew campaigns, over half of those homebrewers do pillage from other settings ... 15% or 50% of the world they've created has hawked stuff from other worlds. They're comfortable pillaging our products for ideas. That homebrew number, I can't remember the exact percentage, but I think it's like 55% homebrew. And then it's like 35% Forgotten Realms, and then everything else ... Very few people right now, turns out, running Dark Sun campaigns. A sliver of a sliver. Very few people running Hollow World campaigns. Very few people are running Mystara campaigns. It pretty much goes Homebrew, Forgotten Realms, I think Greyhawk's at 5% ands then everybody else is at 2% or 1%.

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www.enworld.org

Thank you!

I remember there being a more recent one that broke them out in tiers. I believe the top tier was Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Planescape, Ravenloft, and Dark Sun. And the second tier was...most everything else. I remember seeing it talked about on these boards too, but I couldn't find it.

When I have a better headspace for it, I'll go looking again!

 

[Parmandur]

Thank you!

I remember there being a more recent one that broke them out in tiers. I believe the top tier was Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Planescape, Ravenloft, and Dark Sun. And the second tier was...most everything else. I remember seeing it talked about on these boards too, but I couldn't find it.

When I have a better headspace for it, I'll go looking again!

It was actually a bit older than that, the June 2015 mass survey:

https://www.enworld.org/threads/new-d-d-monthly-survey-mystics-psionics.663232/