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<blockquote data-quote="Henadic Theologian" data-source="post: 8424607" data-attributes="member: 7030526"><p>Drizzt has sold over 30 million copies as of 2019. Ed Greenwood well over 3 million copies, other popular authors at least a million copies and don't forget most of the adventures have been for FR.</p><p></p><p> <a href="https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2020/06/leaving-money-on-table-why-is-there-no.html?m=1" target="_blank">Leaving Money on the Table: Why is There No New D&D Fiction Being Published?</a></p><p></p><p> When new players get pulled into D&D what is the first setting they run into? FR.</p><p></p><p> FR has a $100,000,000 dollar movie to make and FR TV shows in the works.</p><p></p><p> And FR novels like my paper back copy of Brimstone Angels is worth $100 now.</p><p></p><p> FR got the first MtG sets, the big video games like BG3, so no Exandia is not more popular, the whole world isn't hugely into social media so focusing on social media misrepresents things. And WotC straight up said their most popular setting is the Forgotten Realms, not Exandia, the Forgotten Realms.</p><p></p><p> And I finally found out the villains responsible for killing the novel line, it was Hasbro! The geniuses who killed the novel line right before both D&D and MtG exploded in popularity. There timing was perfectly awful. </p><p></p><p> What they should do is start with limited edition reprint of books like the Brimstone that they already own with a special cover. Basically market the novel line like they do the MtG line and D&D alt covers. Say 10,000 copies of Brimstone Angels reprint, new leather bound cover, limit numbered books, premium price collector edition, with the promise of a regular version at a more affordable cost to be released a month afterward.</p><p></p><p> I'm Canadian so I've never heard of catch 22 book, they've heard the phrase catch 22.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henadic Theologian, post: 8424607, member: 7030526"] Drizzt has sold over 30 million copies as of 2019. Ed Greenwood well over 3 million copies, other popular authors at least a million copies and don't forget most of the adventures have been for FR. [URL="https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2020/06/leaving-money-on-table-why-is-there-no.html?m=1"]Leaving Money on the Table: Why is There No New D&D Fiction Being Published?[/URL] When new players get pulled into D&D what is the first setting they run into? FR. FR has a $100,000,000 dollar movie to make and FR TV shows in the works. And FR novels like my paper back copy of Brimstone Angels is worth $100 now. FR got the first MtG sets, the big video games like BG3, so no Exandia is not more popular, the whole world isn't hugely into social media so focusing on social media misrepresents things. And WotC straight up said their most popular setting is the Forgotten Realms, not Exandia, the Forgotten Realms. And I finally found out the villains responsible for killing the novel line, it was Hasbro! The geniuses who killed the novel line right before both D&D and MtG exploded in popularity. There timing was perfectly awful. What they should do is start with limited edition reprint of books like the Brimstone that they already own with a special cover. Basically market the novel line like they do the MtG line and D&D alt covers. Say 10,000 copies of Brimstone Angels reprint, new leather bound cover, limit numbered books, premium price collector edition, with the promise of a regular version at a more affordable cost to be released a month afterward. I'm Canadian so I've never heard of catch 22 book, they've heard the phrase catch 22. [/QUOTE]
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