I do not think it is special, it is growing, sure, but steadily while the sales showed a clear decline at one point that is not accounted for this way
not really, that was the same price they sell for digitally / physically afterwards, the only thing that was relatively cheap was preordering...
not giving full details does not mean it does not matter. Whatever Bookscan captures is basically the same for every book, so it does not give you total number of copies sold, but it pretty accurately measures relative success. Which is what the charts show.
The one thing it does not account...
I mean, that was the bare minimum expectation… it tells us basically nothing about whether it met actual expectations
Core books always sell the best, so if it had not managed that, 2024 would have been a flop
Yeah, have everyone gain 2 rather than a mix of 1d3 and 2, I see no benefit to the latter. I also would not mind the resource being the same for all classes, the real difference is / should be what it can be spent on anyway, not what it is called.
not really, those books were generally not selling as well to begin with, so at best you delayed a further decline, but the goal is to revitalize / grow sales
yep, and that is kinda the worst case scenario for the 2024 core books
I don’t know which ones they are, the two examples SF mentioned are in the SRD. Would have been nice if the book pointed that out though, esp since not everyone uses the digital version
but looking at it from the perspective of any other launch is misleading, no other TTRPG had anywhere near 5e numbers. That is like saying the latest MCU movie would have done great if you looked at it from the perspective of low budget indie movies
not sure where this promise is from, but the OP makes it sound like there was one, at least for this book
and again, I have no problem with it being intentionally incompatible with 2014, but then say so on the back