Call of Cthulhu grows to the second best selling RPG core book on Amazon USA

darjr

I crit!

• Dec 26, 2020

• #1

Amazon numbers are volatile because of the after Christmas sales, but this is the first time I've seen this in Amazon sales rank. First the PHB 5e is in the 50's, again, again. Second the COC 7th core book has been in the 20thousands for a while but now it's at 7,828 third is Pathfinder 2e at 9,596, it has been hovering around 13,000 for the last few weeks.

Granted, these two will probably flip flop a few times and probably settle back to where they were pre Christmas. Still I wanted to note it, I think it's news and important. CoC is growing.

Note these are sales rankings out of ALL books sold on Amazon USA.

 

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Imaculata

Hero

• Dec 26, 2020

• #2

I for one welcome the dominion of our newly awakened great old one!

 

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macd21

Adventurer

• Dec 26, 2020

• #3

I’m guessing it’s benefited from Lovecraft Country.

 

MGibster

Legend

• Dec 26, 2020

• #4

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! This is good news and I hope Lovecraft Country has encouraged more people to give good old Call of Cthulhu a try.

 

Jaeger

That someone better

• Dec 27, 2020

• #5

darjr said:

Call of Cthulhu grows to the second best selling RPG core book on Amazon USA​

Amazon numbers are volatile because of the after Christmas sales, but this is the first time I've seen this in Amazon sales rank. First the PHB 5e is in the 50's, again, again. Second the COC 7th core book has been in the 20thousands for a while but now it's at 7,828 third is Pathfinder 2e at 9,596, it has been hovering around 13,000 for the last few weeks. ...

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CoC was ahead of PF2 as of 12-7-2020 as well - I noted it on another forum where I was discussing PF2.

A little more variety on the top is a good thing.

macd21 said:

I’m guessing it’s benefited from Lovecraft Country.

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Nothing wrong with that. Good on them.

D&D 5e has certainly benefitted from pop culture references it did not initiate.

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darjr

I crit!

• Dec 27, 2020

• #6

Jaeger said:

CoC was ahead of PF2 as of 12-7-2020 as well - I noted it on another forum where I was discussing PF2.

A little more variety on the top is a good thing.




Nothing wrong with that. Good on them.

D&D 5e has certainly benefitted from pop culture references it did not initiate.

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Do you have what the rankings were?

 

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Blue Orange

Gone to Texas

• Dec 27, 2020

• #7

I went into Books: Science Fiction & Fantasy: Gaming and checked--all the top 10 are D&D books (top 5: Tasha's, PHB, DMG, MM, Xanathar's), except for what appears to be a wuxia/litRPG novel in the "Silver Fox & the Western Hero" series.

Amazon has very specific categories, and I wouldn't be surprised if you were looking in a different place...

 

darjr

I crit!

• Dec 27, 2020

• #8

Blue Orange said:

I went into Books: Science Fiction & Fantasy: Gaming and checked--all the top 10 are D&D books (top 5: Tasha's, PHB, DMG, MM, Xanathar's), except for what appears to be a wuxia/litRPG novel in the "Silver Fox & the Western Hero" series.

Amazon has very specific categories, and I wouldn't be surprised if you were looking in a different place...

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Looking at different RPGs. All the D&D books count as D&D books. Look at the rankings for ALL books and the second highest core book AFTER any D&D book was COC.

 

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Blue Orange

Gone to Texas

• Dec 27, 2020

• #9

I keep looking for different RPG books and they're in the category 'Fantasy Gaming', when I look at bestsellers for that category I get what I described.

Is it possible Amazon actually tweaks their bestseller list per person? I logged out of Amazon, tried again, and got the same result.

 

darjr

I crit!

• Dec 27, 2020

• #10

Well, Call of Cthulhu doesn't appear to be in the Fantasy Gaming list at all.

It isn't a fantasy game, technically.