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You may be right, but there were also other reasons. Knowing my customers is a big part of how I do business (I generally know what they will buy better than they do - it's exhausting, but it's how I do as well as I do) - and there were multiple general consensuses around that time: The...

I don't think that you can really conclude this. What is an Adventure and what is a Setting is pretty muddled in 5e. I don't think that a "regular" person can tell the difference. OTOH, the products that WE would list as "Settings" are usually the experimental, often Magic The Gathering or...

I don't know why excel was spitting out the dates in that order. I agree with you that it's a strange way to write August 2023.

I typed that in when I posted the chart - the store has it listed as STARTER SET and I wanted to be more clear here. But I'd call that a typo or more likely a brain worm. I'm aware that it's called Lost Mines. Must be, like you say, from seeing it typed that way too often.

There are many factors in play when it comes to that. In no particular order: 1) Both our orders (the number I "guess" we will need), and our allocations (the number they choose to actually provide us) doesn't ever really line up consistently. On top of THAT, we can't assume that I ever "guess"...

No idea overall, but IIRC, it sold very well for me, and the organized play at my store had a lot of fun with it. This was back when WotC regularly sent us physical modules to run, and made their "Seasons" line up with whatever books were coming out. I remember liking it, myself.

They're pretty pathetic by comparison. We struggled to get Daggerheart after the first release (we have a copy or two now) but we didn't HAVE IT when people were asking for it. It's going to be only a handful, tops. Shadowdark, I kickstarted it, but since then I've been unable to get them (I...

Oh yeah, I said "Ten" up there, but you're right, it's eleven. We still have, and still occasionally sell, the 2014 PHB. We've certainly sold a few copies in the last year.

I feel like that's an RP thing. The ogres are too busy eating a tiefling, and I don't think that they care at all what happens to the goblins. If the PCs are fighting the nearby goblins, I'd have an ogre peek out (with the possibility of a PC spotting them) then shrug and go back inside.

Hmmm... I'll look into it. I'll also see if I can dredge up 4e Sales for the fun of it. (I probably won't be able to find reliable 3.x or frankly, any at all of my 2e sales).

Also: My gut says that there's a mistake in the number up there for the DM Screen Reincarnated. I can't imagine that we've sold anywhere near that many. That number would mean that we sold a screen to most (72%) of the people that we've sold the DMG to. I really, really don't think that it's...

One thing that I noticed that I hadn't even realized - I've already sold 130x PHB 2024 (when you add up both covers). So when you compare that to my lifetime sales of PHB 2014 (at 382) - that's about a THIRD. Which is pretty good when we're comparing ONE year worth of sales to TEN. I think this...

I can't seem to get a nice table to post. My first attempt to post this had the formatting of the table turn to unreadable crap after I posted it, so I went back and replaced it with a text-only version, but that makes it annoying to read. Sorry about that. I'll try to fix it.

At some point, I promised to share my FLGS's D&D sales from July 2014 to October 2025, for those that like to look at lists. Obviously, very little (though perhaps not as little as some might think) can be told about the overall sales of D&D based on only one tiny little game store in a...

They did. I think they're okay with including slavery as a concept, when it comes to villains, but I think an earlier suggestion in this thread is correct: There won't (likely) be things like "Escaped Slave" as a Background, or an adventure where you start as a slave. Of course, everyone would...

Slavery is an excellent example of a thing to fight against, where you can smite the slavers with no regrets.

I'm just being charitable, that maybe if they'd had to make it a whole thing on its own, that it would have come together better.

Maybe. Seems unlikely to me that they'd skip a D&D book at this point, though. Heck, why not both? Honestly, I think it's strange that they aren't better at product "synergy". I mean, I get that video games take extremely longer than TTRPG production. But, so? Wait until the game is in its...

That sounds interesting. Share when you have a working draft!

Yeah! I'd be happy with a "change notes" - style conversation, even if it includes a bit of "I liked (this) about the old version better". I'd just rather not see people poo-pooing all over it.