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ah, so when the title says ‘best’, it means ‘strongest’, the latter might be true

it's hard to see whether they are in growth mode when Hasbro never really properly breaks out the numbers. Supposedly they were growing...

define viable, D&D on its own is still bigger than any other TTRPG company. I can see them being a bit more careful with their...

So, based.om the data collected by our host, the first million dollar Kickstarter was only 9 years ago. Since Covid, the number of large...

Yes, I worked in the Book Department from 1988 to 1994 and was at one time series editor for both the Ravenloft and Realms fiction...

no idea, but I would not use conventions as the only measure anyway, number of kickstarters, money raised by them and some other stuff...

I definitely agree. I think you could make an argument for what makes something a golden age, but you'd likely just get disagreement...

I agree with that, but at least we can see the convention numbers go up or down, the DDB registered users only have one direction

Do we know those numbers? 13 million registered users is not that, and will only ever grow, even if fewer people actually were to use DDB

Right, what I'm saying is that it wouldn't ever be sold separately, it's part of the package portfolio of Hasbro: the only way a company...

I'll add this to the list https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepmagic/northlands-norse-adventures-for-dandd-2024-and-tov

why would the speed of shipping have anything to do with having to pay tariffs?

even if they did sell off WotC, that is still a multi-billion deal, even just D&D probably would not be sold for less than $2B

There are more kickstarters than there are conventions. It’s more thinly spread. A less arbitrary comparison would be how many are going...

The quantity and variety of high rolling Kickstarters is actually a pretty good metric that there is interest and engagement with the hobby.