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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7745799" data-attributes="member: 6873517"><p>My guess is that they're taking the most charitable interpretation they can make of the numbers they have, which would suggest they have some double counts and people who played once or twice and aren't "regular players". </p><p></p><p>But forget about that. </p><p></p><p>Just look at the fact that their books are routinely pretty high sellers on Amazon should say that a <em>lot</em> of books are being moved. As of today, <em>Xanthar's</em> is #132 in <em>Books</em>, the <em>PHB</em> is #43, and WotC's RPG team is the #86 author in the top 100. </p><p></p><p>As to why D&D is having its moment right now... I dunno, but here are some speculations. There have been a lot of things that pushed it slowly towards the mainstream: WoW did a pretty brisk business for a while. Star Wars has had a substantial renaissance (dubious IMO but they sell well). Fantasy movies used to be cheesy and campy swords and sorcery tales full of T&A, but Peter Jackson's <em>Lord of the Rings</em> movies opened those doors up. Harry Potter sold a lot of books---J. K. Rowling <em>is</em> the #1 author on Amazon---and a whole lot of girls bought those books. </p><p></p><p>I think we have to be careful to make the D&D renaissance seem inevitable with the Goggles of Hindsight though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7745799, member: 6873517"] My guess is that they're taking the most charitable interpretation they can make of the numbers they have, which would suggest they have some double counts and people who played once or twice and aren't "regular players". But forget about that. Just look at the fact that their books are routinely pretty high sellers on Amazon should say that a [I]lot[/I] of books are being moved. As of today, [I]Xanthar's[/I] is #132 in [I]Books[/I], the [I]PHB[/I] is #43, and WotC's RPG team is the #86 author in the top 100. As to why D&D is having its moment right now... I dunno, but here are some speculations. There have been a lot of things that pushed it slowly towards the mainstream: WoW did a pretty brisk business for a while. Star Wars has had a substantial renaissance (dubious IMO but they sell well). Fantasy movies used to be cheesy and campy swords and sorcery tales full of T&A, but Peter Jackson's [I]Lord of the Rings[/I] movies opened those doors up. Harry Potter sold a lot of books---J. K. Rowling [I]is[/I] the #1 author on Amazon---and a whole lot of girls bought those books. I think we have to be careful to make the D&D renaissance seem inevitable with the Goggles of Hindsight though. [/QUOTE]
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