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Really? Huh. I thought I was being generous having you arrive remotely close together, what with flying being much faster than climbing. Oh, I'm not sure that you're visible. How long does your invisibility last? If it's just the 1-minute kind, you'd be hard pressed to even get off the road...

Nope. I meant it more of a joke, in that I don't think that it's sinister, even if I do think that whoever advocated for it is probably someone that I wouldn't have any chance of agreeing with on very many things. Horrible monster is probably a bit strong, but I intended it to be understood to...

I think it's a little more complicated than that. It seems to me, that whoever ordered the OGL fiasco (which could have been a single individual, but let's consider it a team) were very likely told (by another team, also at WotC), "This is a BAD IDEA." And then the 2nd team was proved to be...

Sounds like someone who passively watched the HBO show said, "We need a third name! (After Romulus & Remus) Aren't Dire Wolves in GoT? Sure. What name can you remember from GoT? Khaleesi! Done!"

If they'd shown a few tens of thousands of units, I might have thought, "Yeah, those BookScan numbers are unreliable, but it makes sense based on the limitations of BookScan. I'm not sure I would agree with their conclusion, but I can see how someone with limited understanding could get there."...

Not really, no. We could get better information than what we've been given, probably. I'd try it, but I'm not sure that it's worth doing. The information is so limited, and it's absolutely true that the information is actually harder to parse this time than it was last time, as they've been...

I can't believe that I'm being accused of a particular bias here. I'm not saying that I have no biases at all, but I don't when it comes to BookScan. (Nor do I particularly have biases when it comes to WotC. I love D&D, but if it were doing poorly, I'd be happy to say so!) What I have is actual...

Am I, though? You're really not listening to me - and you're conflating me with other posters. For example: I've said nothing whatsoever about D&D Beyond. And yet, I've told you that I have DECADES of experience with looking at BookScan reports. The original YouTube video that showed the report...

Sir Isteval stood tall as the others came through the portal. Somehow he looked younger and more vigorous than they'd seen him before, as if his youthful zeal for adventure had returned to him. This only lasted an hour or so, as they hiked out of the hills and found the Trade Way road heading...

It was discussed widely when it was first "reported". What you say is ALSO true, but it's very common for books to show up in multiple places on BookScan reports, and if you don't go gather all of them together, you can easily "prove" that BookScan is showing that the book only sold a few units...

I said nothing of the sort. BookScan releases data that people who understand how to interpret the data can find useful. And we know that the piece that people have been quoting to make sales look bad IS NOT REAL DATA. It's a data fragment. It's an obvious fragment. So holding it up and saying...

I guarantee you, it is a fragment of BookScan sales, which is a fragment of the total sales, and based entirely on mistaken categorization. Very common with BookScan. It's meaningless. It has NOTHING behind it. If you look at BookScan, you can find Graphic Novels that it can claim had 1 UNIT...

@Alzrius My condemnation of your above post might be coming off as stronger than I intend - or more specifically, more censuring of you than I intend. I'm pretty adamantly against most of the points you make, particularly the first one, but I don't mean it to come across at all personally - not...

Hmm. Yeah, seems to be some shuffling going on. I wonder what's up, and if the company will come out stronger or weaker in the near term.

That was reported, but was absolute BS. It wasn't even POSSIBLE for it to be true. It was a very, extremely obvious mistake. They don't. IMO, Your points are even less reliable than my anecdotes. They're cherry-picking lies and impossibilities (and a few confusing, but possibly meaningless...

Speaking as someone who sells D&D books for a living, and I don't have Worldwide Data to share, just anecdotal data from my own store and discussion with my local distribution, but... I think that anyone who tries to claim that 2024 books aren't selling well are trying to push an Anti-WotC...

Yes, space would be at a premium - though I imagine that if it were well-edited, it could be done in such a way as to not take as much space as it sounds like it would. Obviously, it would likely take more space than current style (though there's still ways I can imagine to keep it down to...

Spoiler: It was criminal how the last one killed off Rebecca Ferguson. She pretty much got "Fridged", and it's way to late in the day to do that to such a good character. Kinda ruined the whole thing for me.

I seem to recall being fond of this fellow.

Woah! The post I just posted, I just found sitting in the site buffer ("post" section). What I'm trying to say is, I thought that I'd posted it days ago! I must have hit "post" and then shut my laptop before it finished uploading the map, or something, and it just sat there unposted.