Recent content by FitzTheRuke

It's dead, Jim!

Right, so way way more than than 85m. I think everyone agrees that Baseball is more popular than D&D.

Yeah, that makes sense, but I felt like it was worth repeating, because while we could never tell how many people were playing D&D based on the sales of the PHB (many groups had only one), we can rely on PHB sales to illustrate players even less now.

I mean, for example - your crowing about how right you are seems really strange when you're arguing against people who are saying, "IDK - maybe WotC isn't lying that D&D has 85 million fans, or whatever, who knows?" And you say that they are claiming that it's more popular than Baseball, when...

And an unknown quantity of DDB digital PHBs.

Except that no one has said that D&D is more popular than any of those things. They've argued against your speculated numbers, (and other claims) which are, frankly baffling.

I think we're drifting a bit. The original claim, IIRC, was that DS's environmental collapse & social tyranny are even more relevant today than in the 80's, not that they weren't relevant then. And earlier.

... What? Why would anyone have a DDB account if they don't play D&D?

That's fine if you're trying to sell a single sword, but if you're a sword-seller and you want to keep selling swords regularly into the future, you don't do things that make the sword worthless as soon as the buyer walks away. Or then, not only will that buyer never buy a sword from you again...

I'm happy to share. I think that WotC had to face a thing that had little to do with sales, when it came to those slipcases. I think we can all agree that Spelljammer was poorly reviewed overall, and that Planescape was considered "better", but wasn't exactly raved about either. Now, there's...

I'm at home and would have to go to the store (I will later today) to give you actual numbers, but from what I gather, they sold "fine". Which is to say - we would expect the format to sell less, so we ordered less, and we were right. We move through them here-and-there, but not at the rate of...

You're missing a level of how nostalgia works. You're missing that those that weren't born have heard those that were there wax nostalgically for it, and assume based on hearsay that it must have been interesting, and are curious to find out. You're right that it doesn't have to actually...

I think that after the relatively poor reception on the previous slipcases, they are MUCH more likely to go for the FR two-book style release.

I want to joke: "Look at that tame art for the kids these days! So cheery with its purples and neck frills! And teddy bears! Where's my gritty art!?" But I worry that it will be taken the wrong way.

The B&G Silver thing says Preorders March, which makes a D&D product likely for May/June, and a May/June Preorder for a Platinum makes the thing likely for Aug/Sep. All of this suggests that WotC will announce something in the next three to six weeks.