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There are three Barnes & Noble stores in my general area, as well as a Books-a-Million, which is about the same size as the Barnes & Noble stores. All those stores used to keep the D&D novels in the sci-fi/fantasy section rather than the Young Adult section. I haven't checked all the stores in...

Speak for yourself! I'm a hip, out there, groovy dude!

Your presumption is that the new D&D tone does appeal to contemporary audiences. Maybe it does, but given the amount of dissatisfaction expressed in this thread, perhaps this is not what contemporary audiences want. Companies do not always do a good job of anticipating what their customers...

What does the vertical axis represent? Seems low for dollar sales per year. Is it unit sales per year or something else?

Wow, I guess I'll have to try to be somewhat careful with it (which will be rather hard to do since it's going to be scraping across on the table all the time). Maybe a bit of wear will give it some character

Anybody who has already bought the standard cover PHB sort of has a limited cover. I read that only the first printing of the PHBs will have the gold foil "50" on the back cover. Of course, the first printing will also have no errata.

The battlemats that I'm most familiar with are Published by Chessex. They've been selling them for decades. I remember seeing them at Gen Con in around 1981 or 1982 and they were too expensive for my budget, so I bought a substitute. There was a vendor at that Gen Con who sold battlemat-sized...

Fifty bucks. Prices sure have changed since I got my last Eagles album in the late 70's.

I'm only playing D&D right now and WotC only publishes 1-5 adventure books per year. If they produced more, I'd buy more. I don't generally use 3rd party adventures since the quality can vary so much and it's hard to tell which are the good ones before buying them. A short preview and...

"Living in a Material World" was one of my all-time favorite Dragon magazine articles and was one of the few ones that I photocopied and kept with me. I know that some folks don't want the complexity of having to deal with material components, but I thought it added a lot of color to MUs. It...

Right, as I mentioned, the 1e rules gave a low percentage chance that any player would have psionics. According to the 1e PHB: PCs with one or more unmodified intelligence, wisdom or charisma scores equal or greater than 16 rolls percentile dice. A roll of 100 gets them psionics. They add 2%...

This was definitely one of my favorite covers. I liked the bright colors and style. It was also one of my favorite imaginings of a faerie dragon. I started gaming with 1e and we used psionics from the start. The 1e rules gave a low percentage chance that any player would have psionics, so it...

I agree. I think it was the best illustration in the adventure. And, more importantly, it was also perfectly accurate in depicting exactly what the scene looked like. There were some other very good illustrations in the module (such as the doors on p.27), but that's what you would expect from...

I agree. The late 1980's through early 1990's DC D&D comics (AD&D, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Spelljammer lines) had by far the best stories (including writing by Jeff Grubb) and artists (such as Rags Morales, Dave Simons, and Jan Duursema). I very much prefer their more...

At the very end of the announcement, it refers to IDW as the "previously licensed" publisher of D&D comics. I wonder if that means the IDW license will terminate when Dark Horse takes over or if both companies will be publishing D&D comics at the same time (which would be fine with me).

I agree! I almost wrote in my post that I also believe "Dragon" is in the title probably helped sales of this book and Horde of the Dragon Queen: Tyranny of Dragons.

I'm not at all surprised that "Dragon Heist" is near the top of the list. The article says that Amazon sales are included (except when Amazon refuses to disclose their figures) and "Dragon Heist" has been one of the cheapest D&D books (if not the cheapest) available on Amazon for long stretches...

There are some interesting new illustrations on the listings: https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Players-Handbook-Rulebook/dp/0786969512/ https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Dungeon-Masters-Rulebook/dp/0786969520/...

It's nice to see the Great Kingdom and Rauxes restored. There's nothing I like better than a decayed (but still frighteningly powerful) empire that's ruled by a mad emperor.

Art & Arcana is a wonderful book with a lot of great old photos, many times better than Lore & Legends. I don't dislike Lore & legends, but it is a bit annoying that the book puts forward the idea that D&D had run its course and was dying of old age until 5e came along and breathed new life...