D&D 5E 5E PHB heading back into the Amazon top 100?

[Iosue]

That #43 in Teens is big. Always good to get more young folk into the game.

 

[Guest 6801328]

That's odd. I've been reading this forum and I keep seeing these posts claiming that nobody is playing 5e, it's a flop, WotC has no business sense, the slow releases are killing the game, without digital support it's a non-starter, and that without a Warlord it's a tiny tent.

Clearly Amazon is wrong.

 

[mrpopstar]

That #43 in Teens is big. Always good to get more young folk into the game.

So true!

It's everything, really.

 

[Oofta]

That's odd. I've been reading this forum and I keep seeing these posts claiming that nobody is playing 5e, it's a flop, WotC has no business sense, the slow releases are killing the game, without digital support it's a non-starter, and that without a Warlord it's a tiny tent.

Clearly Amazon is wrong.

My thoughts exactly. D&D is a huge flop that offers nothing to old school gamers. It's obvious based on <insert numbers pulled from somewhere to sound official, while ignoring sales and ORR reports> that it's a failure.

Usually followed by a litany of random complaints about why they don't happen to like the game, but are forced - forced I tell you - to continuously post to a forum dedicated to 5E about how bad it is.

 

[TerraDave]

Right now #99 overall and #46 in teens. Even in my own optimism I did not expect the PHB to spend over 18 months as a top seller among teens. You think they would be more fickle.

 

[Azzy]

I think that this is great news for the hobby in general, too. Too often it's said that TTRPGs are dying out, but give that 5e is selling this well in the Teens category, I think our hobby may be doing okay.

 

[darjr]

Huh, I have noticed a lot of younger folks playing. So many in fact that the last con I was at had a 'kids' table that was full, and they could have had a couple more.

 

[Rottle]

My thoughts exactly. D&D is a huge flop that offers nothing to old school gamers. It's obvious based on <insert numbers pulled from somewhere to sound official, while ignoring sales and ORR reports> that it's a failure.

Usually followed by a litany of random complaints about why they don't happen to like the game, but are forced - forced I tell you - to continuously post to a forum dedicated to 5E about how bad it is.

5e lost me with self healing fighters and napping, but it's good for the game for it to do well. And good for me, I talked to some guys at work and they are young playing 5e, they asked me how true it was to old school and my answer was old school means different things to different people. Then they asked if I had some of my old school d&d books and if I would run a game for them to see what it was like...my dmg, ph, and mm are some 10 years older then any of them still have toys'r'us stickers on them....I think I will run either village of homlet or one of the b series.....so like I said more power to 5e and its continued success.

 

[ZzarkLinux]

Nice to see that it ranks well in teens. But I am curious how they are grouping it into the teen category.

Is the category based on stats from Amazon? Buyer age-ranking? Random label from Amazon? Random label that WotC can elect/purchase?

I'm not sure "teen" means the buyer is a teenager, or that just somehow it got shelved-in with teens and adults just keep buying it.

I wonder how well D&D would fare in an "occult & religion" category

 

[Oofta]

5e lost me with self healing fighters and napping, but it's good for the game for it to do well. And good for me, I talked to some guys at work and they are young playing 5e, they asked me how true it was to old school and my answer was old school means different things to different people. Then they asked if I had some of my old school d&d books and if I would run a game for them to see what it was like...my dmg, ph, and mm are some 10 years older then any of them still have toys'r'us stickers on them....I think I will run either village of homlet or one of the b series.....so like I said more power to 5e and its continued success.

That's one of the reasons why I implemented the optional rest rule. A short rest is 8 hours, a long is a week.

But there's no way any edition could satisfy everyone's needs. Have fun with your campaign!