Recent content by Parmandur

It is nice and heavy paper, yup.

Volo's was the first they did at all, and 2019 was the first year they did more than one, with at least Saltmarsh, Eberron, and Avernus. Before that it was one a year, strictly.

It ia easy enough to print at home or at the library, but the offi ial sheet pack has a lot of sheets, printed in good quality, and a nice folder for notes and such.

One of the more interesting things to me about these numbers is that we know now that Beyond sales account for 67% of D&D revenue...ao I think it is fairly safe to assume that some number of Vancouverians (apologies to all if that is incorrect) who bought from @FitzTheRuke before probably...

Used to be HeroQuest before Hasbro bought that trademark back, right?

Well, they were simplified, yes, to be easy to use at the table for Space High Fantasy adventuring. That's a pro, not a con. Well, no, they are quick and dirty...which h is what I would expect from a 5E D&D module to add a minor subsystems to the game. This isn't Traveller, there are Victorian...

They are pretty great.

The two main non-culture war negative responses I have seen are people who know too much about the lore and can't stand changes, and then people who only knew the films who are horrified by Silmirillion accurate Elven lore.

Just to quibble, don't forget to include the Core Gift Set numbers: PHB: 130/399 = 0.326 MM: 64/196 = 0.327 DMG: 88/214 = 0.411

Think this might be an effect of being a Canadian store, to some extent: Hasbro has the distribution network to make non-U.S. availability way more accessible than most other American game companies at this point.

Thwt matches all our historical sales data across editiona: a hige number of D&D players just buy the core rules and roll with them.

Thanks for the conversation starter! I was taken aback by what a large percentage all three new core books have in about 1 year, compared to 11 for 2014 rules.

Really hard to say: reviews were good, but it released just as the wheels came off of the 4E business model.

2024 rules or RAW Moldvay-Cook B/X, the latter being OD&D perfected.