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The end of the Edition Wars.

But it's Tradition! :) From all the evidence I've gathered, the 83 Red Box fed a lot more players into AD&D than it did into Expert and beyond, and AD&D didn't even have the decency to warn you how different a game it was in the core rulebooks. (2nd Edition did, but not very clearly until the...

Actually, the 1991 Black Box was pretty good--it went all the way up to level 5, IIRC, and was full of neat stuff and ways to teach the game. It got a good chunk of support from TSR, too, with 3 big add-on boxes and numerous smaller modules. (And it apparently sold about half a million copies...

This would only work if WotC would stop talking about the mechanics--although while they're continually doing so, they're also being vague and indefinite. :)

Actually, DC Comics has acquired quite the negative reputation for focusing like a laser on the "male, 20-40" demographic over the past few years.

I've seen variations of the idea in the OP mentioned in several places, and this is my first chance to set out my personal response: If the only way for D&D to be successful is to market it as "Satan's Game", then not only does the game deserve to die, I'll shed no tears for its death. :)...

You jest, but I have to wonder if Tyranny wasn't conceived as a Dragonlance reboot or event (the Resurrection of Takhisis) and then moved to the Realms in order to better leverage their IP and/or avoid the heavy baggage that DL carries.

Ravenloft ran almost steadily for 14 years (and was really cut short by the 3.5 transition, else it might have sustained a year or two more) and was slated for revival just before WotC made their radical direction change in 2011. Indeed, a couple comments by the developers over the years have...

Did no one else notice the bit in the Forbes article about new Ravenloft "very soon"?

There was one month in that period when D&D slipped to #2--when no new product was being released and Vampire: The Masquerade Revised had just been released.

Indeed. For example, I notice that Pathfinder only overtakes D&D after the schedule gets chopped to pieces in 2011. (Half the products announced for the Q1/Q2 timeframe were delayed or never released at all.) Similarly, D&D slips to #3 when new print product practically stops altogether...

I honestly expected angel, dragon, elemental and genie pacts at some point in 4E's lifespan. I'm really surprised we never got them--but I think by the time certain archetypes (witch and sha'ir) came around, the game had moved into its Essentials/early Next mode of "arcane spellcasters are...

Rules Cyclopedia: $24.95 in 1991 would be $42.85. So if the D&D Next 'Player's Handbook' is comparable to that , with better art and a bit more room to breathe, it won't be too out of line.

I've been using this method to track upcoming WotC releases for the better part of a decade (sometimes B&N, more often Amazon), and the answer is "accurate far more often than not." Sometimes a product gets delayed or repriced, but the first listing's usually pretty accurate.

For the first half of its run; the logo was revised to just say "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" in May 1995. The 3.5 core books had "Version 3.5" plates on their covers, though not as part of the logo. So basically, the only time the game gives an edition number on the cover is when it's a...

It's a two-part code of letters and numbers. Letter designates the series; number designates the order of publication within the series. For AD&D as of 1990, according to Lawrence Schick's Heroic Worlds: A=Aerie of the Slave Lords series C=Competition series (tournament modules) (This is why...

Indeed there was. There was supposed to be a variant based on the movie, IIRC, but it never saw the light of day.

Good point. My situation is such that I'm in the opposite position and so shouldn't be relied upon too much. If $50 really is the entry point, then in and of itself, it's not too bad. You mention Pathfinder, and FFG seems to be doing all right with its Star Wars games, which are $60 for the...

Well, the 3E PH and 3.5 PH were $30, not $35. :) The $20 price doesn't count, really--that was explicitly a bargain or loss leader price for early adopters to convince them to buy the books. The 4E PH was $35; using the government inflation calculator, that would be $38 in 2014 dollars. (And...

Well, it looks like the first information has started to leak out to bookstores, as the following products can be found on barnesandnoble.com D&D Starter Set, releasing July 15, 2014, list price $19.95 D&D Player's Handbook, releasing August 19, 2014, list price $49.95 That's a pretty...