D&D 5E Amazon US book sales rank.

[darjr]

I have older snaps and it was actually 20+ points higher over much of the OGL fiasco.

Though that difference doesn’t mean much in overall “popularity”

 

[Parmandur]

Just a guess, but I suspect thst people buying a new PHB from Amazon in 2023 are not duper plugged into the gaming community, and possibly nit NOR listeners or Washington Post readers. Probably mainly 12 year Olds, or aunts/uncles/grand/godparents of 12 year old, though with those numbers I would expect diversity.

 

[TerraDave]

Vault is $30 on both Roll20 and D&D Beyond (digital). Book-beyond bundle is $60. Presumably a lot of sales are or will be going through these.

 

[teitan]

208 pages? Yikes..

For comparison's sake:
Tales from the Yawning Portal - 248 pages
Ghosts of Saltmarsh - 256 pages
Candlekeep Mysteries - 224 pages
Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel - 224 pages

I remember when I pointed out low page count for Spelljammer and got a few raised hairs for it and it’s less pages for $60.

 

[teitan]

It looks fun!

I don't think anybody really had an issue with the amount of adventure content included. It was just mainly the lack of setting info and other concrete things (ship to ship combat etc).

Which, to be fair, may not be a result of the truncated page count, it could have been intentional. I doubt we'll ever know for sure.

I have a feeling it was put together quickly and they didn’t really get to work on those rules because Baldur’s Gate had vehicle rules and Saltmarsh had naval rules in them that were more substantial. With the increased production cycle they didn’t have the lead time to develop what they needed for the project with the size of the team they had when they started.

 

[teitan]

I have older snaps and it was actually 20+ points higher over much of the OGL fiasco.

Though that difference doesn’t mean much in overall “popularity”

People buying up copies because they were planning to boycott 1DnD no doubt. I have four PHB, 2 DMG, 2 MM, 2 Xanathar, and 2 Tasha’s myself. Mainly because we don’t really plan to buy more than the core rules for 1DnD to check them out but don’t have a strong inclination to update with all that and the Kobold Press books that are available and our DCC game hitting all the right buttons.

 

[darjr]

Keys broke 500 sales rank at $42.

Not as good as Spelljammer but still phenomenally well.

 

[Parmandur]

Came here to share that, PHB amd Tyranny of Dragons (!) also doing well:

 

[Parmandur]

In fact, it seems that 5E books across the board have surged on Amazon a bit.

 

[darjr]

In fact, it seems that 5E books across the board have surged on Amazon a bit.

The keys book has. The others? Not so much.

Selling well, absolutely!

But they did through out the OGL debacle.

Which makes me realize that the effort to stop the bleeding at WotC wasn’t for the books sake. They were doing fine, at Amazon anyway.