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Hasbro does not break out D&D figures, sometime they say it grew by x%, but that is about it, so you will have to do some math to get to a somewhat reliable range. I’d go with Teos’ conclusions over Glicker’s Fastest selling when you count the first n months, probably (?) not fastest selling...

your answer is in my quote, so I could not quote it “Yes, he mentioned the 100K and that came from Bookscan, However, at one point he mentioned that, unlike with 2014, Bookscan's figures for 2024 are unreliable” they are also unreliable for 2014, they are probably off by a factor of 4 or 5...

so where is the 100k from then? they pretty much always do that, Hasbro does not like to share meaningful information not gonna watch the guy, do you have a summary of his analysis? Teos Abadia usually dives into these quarterly reports to figure out D&D sales. There was some podcast recently...

to figure out D&D sales numbers it is literally useless, I might as well guess them myself, I at least have a chance to get close, Bookscan does not. If you want to compare PHB24 to DMG24 ratio maybe it can work for that, not even sure about that

yes, the guy has no idea what he is talking about, Bookscan numbers are useless for D&D sales

I think I recently heard on a podcast that Kelsey sold 50k print copies of it

I am glad nothing is over level 13, lower levels get a lot more use out of these small scenarios

that is my problem with those bare bones adventure outlines. If I need to do 90% of the work to make it interesting, what good is it to have gotten those 10% from WotC

you mean you are not using up the spell slot? No, that is even worse than what we have now, the boss used a LR and you just cast the spell again

and Intoxication Monk sounds better to them? Who are these people?

still on the fence myself, but that is a step up from little interest ;) Will see what more in depth reports have to say

Here’s to hoping they do this for their other settings too… art looks great

I don’t think I was bashing the designers, I certainly did not say they do not know what they are doing. From my perspective I did three things 1) disagreed with the claim that WotC does not innovate at all, 2) said they are not particularly innovative and that market leaders pretty much never...

no, they did not say which ones, only that some made it but were dropped regardless if it made it past the UA threshold, it was not a popular veto, was it? How was that veto determined if not by the 70% approval threshold, was there like a 10% ‘hate it’ threshold too? Given that they said that...

yes, but every option they presented was already compatible enough or it would not have been included in the playtest, and yet they dropped options that the playtest identified as popular enough to make it past the threshold over concerns with compatibility. So the level of compatibility...

they said that anything they presented in the playtests were things that could make it into the new game, not just some wild test balloons, and that they were looking for feedback / popularity. They then later said they dropped some features that made it past the poll threshold because they...

well, you were the one saying it does not at all and I replied to that, so yeah, that was the topic at hand, not the OP did you read more than the first line of my reply? That would have answered this… no, but into a rebuttal of your ‘D&D has not had a single innovation in 40 years’ claim /...

agreed, but the question was does D&D innovate I pointed to what imo was the biggest / most obvious innovation as I assumed that you could not dispute it, not the only or most recent one You do have a point that the fanbase is reluctant to allow changes for whatever reason(s), but that is not...

it’s not about liking it or not, it’s about whether it is considered a big change in comparison to what came before it, all the way back to 1e (if the last innovation / big change were 40 years ago, as claimed). If 1e and 4e are ‘basically the same, certainly no innovation to be found’ then...

if this were accurate, no… No matter what you think qualifies as a big change, the most recent one must at a minimum be 4e, or newer than that. If 4e was not a big change then there basically are almost no TTRPGs that are a big change removed from D&D and the whole industry does not innovate