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This doesn't surprise me at all. D&D novels took up several shelves even in my tiny local independent bookstore. In a B. Dalton or Waldenbooks, it was entire sections of shelves. And it moved! Until it didn't. The intriguing worlds explored with strong voices began to be diluted by many...

Pretty much psionics is what we got in Tasha's. I doubt they will even create more subclasses. I think Mearls was the only champion for psionics, the rest of the design crew is not interested (not haters just not enthused by it). They did several iterations of psionics in UA and consistently got...

I believe the setting contest was a brilliant marketing device. Eberron was a campaign by committee ultimately, but Keith Baker's passion for the setting has been a constant. I think that is what a lot of the smaller selling settings lacked, a champion and face to put to the setting. FR has Ed...

Hmm, so my experience with Planescape sales was not just anecdata or at least corresponded with the actual data. What is interesting is what happened after WotC acquired TSR and what happened with setting sales. 3E focused mainly on FR and Eberron with 2 small Greyhawk books to promote RPGA. 4E...

Giant Planescape of Many Things confirmed!

I can't wait to see the Planescape numbers. I suspect they will be in line with Dark Sun and Ravenloft. I can see why WotC has been so setting shy with 5E. The numbers reported lend themselves more to a strategy of combining setting into a module to hit as many target groups as you can.

Maztica was terrible. I am surprised it sold what it did. Poor Lankhmar. It was always sold out when I tried to get a copy. I wound up buying both Waterdeep City Box set and Greyhawk City to compensate...

I like Ravenloft. Played a campaign or two, but there was no shortage of horror RPGs in the 90s. Gothic D&D horror is a pretty specific niche. I understand why the sales reflect that. The majority of the 90's was a recovery period economically too. Planescape Torment succeeded because it built...

I would love for 5E to become a much more modular and elaborate system. I think it is a solid system and could handle some extrapolation. What I don't see is a lot of enthusiasm from WotC to do this. From the timid UA feedback loop and the lack of experimentation in the core D&D game, most...

These numbers show that sales of D&D were slightly bigger than the 80's (post '84) but were spread across many many more products. Greyhawk was supported into 3.x with LG. There was a crazy amount of content of wildly differing quality produced for the setting. The one thing Greyhawk never had...

What is the payoff for introducing all these other lines of 'D&D'? Iterative changes concurrently released cannibalize your player base. What customer base are you tapping into? It is the equivalent of searching for crumbs in the corners of an all-you-can-eat buffet. Maybe after 50 years of D&D...

Grey box FR was the best representation of a campaign setting until the 3.0 FRCG, just a phenomenal value. Spelljammer was also a fantastic value for what you got in the box. I still have my ship counters ready for the new release.

So Core Setting releases, do they contain the hardback setting books as well? Or just the box sets? The Dark Sun nimbers feel about right. We played the heck out of DarkSun in my group but I was the only one to buy the box. Same with Spelljammer, but I knew of no other groups around me running...

I don't know that there is a huge following. It is a 30 year old campaign setting. There have been enough seeds planted in a variety of 5E products to herald the return of Spelljammer so there is some buzz. The appeal, to me, is simple. It is a setting that combines nautical swashbuckling...

I am getting very excited for this release. I like the addition of the Astral Sea, but I understand those who dislike the change. I am psyched to see new ships beyond the standard fare from the past.

Is this the first confirmation of air being a resource in 5E SJ? And that it can be fouled? Very cool. I worried Helms were going to hand-wavium air for Spelljamming vessels. Glad I was wrong.

They have replaced Crystal Spheres with Wildspace Domains. There is no hard shell, you pass a shimmering veil and you are on the Astral Sea, able to go to other Wildspace Domains or tour Dead God husks and crystal monoliths. The Astral Sea is the Astral plane, so planar travel with portals seems...

It is not 2E Spelljammer, but it looks close enough. I never liked the Phlogiston, but I loved the concept of the 'Flow' within it. Replacing the Phlogiston with the Astral works for me. I am not sure about the change of Wildspace from the Big Empty to a Space Ocean teeming with life and color...

It is bizarre to look at now. I started with Basic at a summer library program in 3rd grade. I asked for the B/X set the following Christmas, but my older friends were getting the PHB. I had dice and modules and used their books until I could get my own for my birthday and using paper route...

A rulebook with just rules is dry and will not grab new participants. The trick is to layer enough story in with the rules to keep interest and open up possibilities. Halflings are small, dextrous, and lucky folk who live in agrarian secluded societies. Gnomes are small, dextrous, and magical...