Acquisitions Inc. switching to Daggerheart

I assume this has already been mentioned, but I feel like it's probably the cards and the plastic molding in the Core Set that are making that more difficult than usual to produce quickly enough to keep up with demand. By including the cards and whatnot, that's probably complicating production over the book alone.

I would expect the opposite, given the immense amount of lead time book production typically needs, and that's before all the international shipping and trade complications that have been added in the last year or two. Still, I'd wager the cards don't help much, which makes me wonder what the production time on their upcoming kickstarter will be too.
 

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I would expect the opposite, given the immense amount of lead time book production typically needs, and that's before all the international shipping and trade complications that have been added in the last year or two. Still, I'd wager the cards don't help much, which makes me wonder what the production time on their upcoming kickstarter will be too.
Doesn't make sense to me. I was raked over the coals here for suggesting that Hasbro and WoTC had economies of scale due to their size and were able to secure more print capacity for their hardcovers, which never seem to go out of stock despite selling far more copies than DH does, and yet the suggestion now is that it's production capacity for the DH hardcover that's preventing them from meeting demand after all this time?

Something doesn't add up there. If anything, it's either the cards and molding are holding things up, or they simply aren't choosing to produce as many sets for as-yet unknown reasons.
 

huh, any info on what makes their edition exclusive / different?
It's not clear to me if Tycho just meant that this is a one-off of running Acq. Inc. in Pirate Borg or if there will actually be a special version of one of the books. I kind of think he just means this is a one-shot game and to not expect everyone to be pirates after this. (Although someone trying to run a business in the Dark Caribbean is an inherently funny idea.)
 

History and sales trends of other games and past editions of D&D almost universally show a decline over time - it's one of the big things that even motivates these refreshes and new editions. Overall perception and trends seem to (that's the big caveat here) show that it's almost certain that the new core books are probably selling less/at a slower pace than the existing 2014 material did.

CR Campaign 4 starting and the new season of Stranger Things will inevitably give it an injection in the arm, because that also has historical precedence, but yes, I'd say it's very likely that 2024 sold less at launch than 2014, in part because of the confusion of what it is from some, and the perception that it's just more 5E from others.

The thing is - none of that means it's selling poorly, it almost certainly isn't. It's just unlikely it's hitting the same metrics as the 2014 launch did, or whatever other arbitrary threshold Hasbro has set for it.

Pics or it didn't happen.

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