D&D 5E Update, see latest post: Players Handbook is #3 out of ALL books on Amazon

[darjr]

D&D General - TSR D&D sales numbers compiled by Benjamin Riggs

Behold! Some actual D&D sales numbers! While working on my book #SlayingtheDragon I got a ton of primary source documents containing sales data for D&D. With the book coming out, I've been looking for a way to get that data out into the wide world. I'm going to start making charts, and simply...

www.enworld.org

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

"Replaced"

I mean, most of these products rollouts go great!

Oh ... oh wow. Maybe not the best choice for hawking something different in your drink.

Nope.

 

[Retreater]

Oh ... oh wow. Maybe not the best choice for hawking something different in your drink.

You're pudding me on.

 

[Jer]

Call of Cthulu has long been one of the most popular and generally accessible RPGs, particularly now in the age of Stranger Things and since Critical Roel covered Call of Cthulu in livestream.

Right - it's very popular among the folks who play RPGs, but I'm somewhat surprised to think of it as the most popular non-D&D RPG in the mainstream. I guess I shouldn't - Lovecraftian inspired fiction has a huge fanbase so it makes sense that it'd be the one that some portion of the general public might gravitate towards - but it still is a bit.

 

[Parmandur]

Right - it's very popular among the folks who play RPGs, but I'm somewhat surprised to think of it as the most popular non-D&D RPG in the mainstream. I guess I shouldn't - Lovecraftian inspired fiction has a huge fanbase so it makes sense that it'd be the one that some portion of the general public might gravitate towards - but it still is a bit.

As I understand it, in Japan it is the single most popular TTRPG, period.

Lovecraftian stuff is very mainstream: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Tim Powers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Stranger Things, extensive references in the MCU, etc, etc.

 

[darjr]

As I understand it, in Japan it is the single most popular TTRPG, period.

Lovecraftian stuff is very mainstream: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Tim Powers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Stranger Things, extensive references in the MCU, etc, etc.

For a bit after CR ran it it spiked a ton on Amazon in the US. I think it beat Pathfinder for a bit.

 

[CleverNickName]

I mean, most of these products rollouts go great!

Oh ... oh wow. Maybe not the best choice for hawking something different in your drink.

Nope.

 

[teitan]

Just for fun, I went and looked up the various edition’s PHB’s. This is there number at the time of this post (note, some of the books have multiple entries, I just used the ones with the original release date/cover)

PHB 1E - #505,089 in books, #329 in ”Computer & Internet Game Strategy Guides” (CIGSG)
PHB 2E - #185,137 in books, #482 in CIGSG
PHB 3E - #278,480 in books, #235 in D&D
PHB 3.5E - #181,620 in books, #179 in D&D
PHB 4E - #159,219 in books, #168 in D&D
Pathfinder - #77,039 in books, #27 in Pathfinder Games
Pathfinder 2E - no data

I don’t know what to say about Pathfinder 2E - I’m hoping its some glitch on the page, not that it hasn’t sold in a while.

It’s listed in a weird category for some reason.

 

[teitan]

I dint think it’s anything nefarious, except Amazon playing around maybe. For instance it’s weird that the one WotC book is in a different category.

Yeah for a little bit the PHB was in “kitchen”. No joke. I was doing some bin checks and noticed a PHB in the bin I was looking at and the PHB was listed as a kitchen item.

 

[teitan]

Also the prices they're asking for some of those books are ridiculous. A used 2e PHB in "good" condition for $75? I can see paying a premium for a collectable (but "used good" is not really a collectible deserving a premium), but I wish there were a way to point anyone who just wants to buy one to use in a game over to the POD copy at DriveThru softcover for just $23 bucks plus shipping.

Gotta love 3rd party vendors man. They price based on EBay and not eBay sold. People want the original and not a PoD copy so the original, crappy, TSR printings are going to get a higher dollar but third party vendors always ask higher than the actual going rate and somehow they find someone to pay for that beat up copy.