D&D General Master List of Benn Riggs' D&D Charts and Graphs
Parmandur
Book-Friend
His (unnamed) source appears to be a TSR alumni who had access tonthe actual busines numbera nad made a copy in the 90's and kept it, not neccesarily going to have anything in WotC. Though he did do a seminar at GenCon about 3E and 4E selling massively less than 2E.
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
Very nice, thanks! I'd thought about doing this as well.
I hope he does get concrete sources and numbers for the WotC-era book he's supposedly working on.
I'm really curious about that.
I hope he does get concrete sources and numbers for the WotC-era book he's supposedly working on.
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
I'm pretty sure that's a reference to his What the Heck Happened with Fourth Edition? seminar that he held at Gen Con (which I believe was something of a preview of a new book).
Snarf Zagyg
Notorious Liquefactionist
Really appreciate you putting in all of these graphs in one place.
It also is a nice companion to the financial figures in Game Wizards which shows that the cliff at the end of the boom years (from '83 to '84) hammered TSR. Combined with the internal mismanagement, this is what led to the fallow time afterwards.
It also is a nice companion to the financial figures in Game Wizards which shows that the cliff at the end of the boom years (from '83 to '84) hammered TSR. Combined with the internal mismanagement, this is what led to the fallow time afterwards.
DarkCrisis
Reeks of Jedi
I still say the Rules Cyclopedia is still one of the best one and done RPG books you can buy even to this day.
not-so-newguy
I'm the Straw Man in your argument
Looking at the Dragonlance sales...
What's the significance of negative sales (1990)? I don't see how that's possible.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Those represent returns from Random House. It's...not good news. Means those negative sales were sitting in their warehouse costing money.
billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him)
It may have been a correction of numbers. Greyhawk Adventures also has a similar dip into the negatives. Back in the early 1990s, both books were being sold at Gen Con for a few bucks (under $5 for sure, though I can't remember whether it was $2 or $4). The story was they had found bunches of them in a warehouse somewhere and were liquidating. I don't know if that feeds into the negative sales figures or not, but it could indicate that numbers they thought had sold previously... hadn't.
