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I am fine with the franchise model, I am just surprised that it is Perkins instead of whoever has his role (or an approximation of it) now

interesting that it is Perkins rather than someone still / now at WotC

I have no idea, I assume the majority. It’s even built into DDB where you can share the products you purchased with your group (good move to, so the printed books have no advantage) Don’t think I have seen any data on this…

so change the cliche to the players do not buy anything, which is what ‘the DM buys everything’ is about anyway, and it still holds ;)

That is a trivial prediction to make, and it doesn’t prove you right on your actual claim

I am not expecting 6e to be a new foundation the way 3e and 4e were after their previous editions. I do however expect it to change more than 5.5 did and shed compatibility to a much larger degree. What you say about other games vs 6e is true for 5e subsystems as well. I don’t think there is...

nah, it’s more that it is being pointed out that one person was using those terms rather… let’s say unconventional

there certainly is, whether that is enough demand… I am hoping for a 6e ‘soon’, not expecting one, but 5.5 was a dud for me, a 6e might be of interest again, more 5.5 won’t be

it only takes that effort once, and someone always does it

is it? Don’t B&G also release these deluxe versions for older WotC adventures rather than just shortly after the official release? I am expecting an AP, I just am not sure this is good evidence for one

agreed they would be, but my numbers are intentionally 2014 only, so there is no overlap with 2024

5M+ of the 2014 books not sure what hard evidence you saw, WotC does not really release hard sales numbers. The closest I have is Bookscan saying it had sold 1.5M PHBs by mid 2023 and that number being estimated to be around 1/3 to 1/4 of actual sales. Add to that about another year of sales...

I noticed, since it is counter to yours… Let’s see if you can follow this… Fans are not necessarily also players, agreed? Not every D&D player has a DDB account, agreed? The number of people having DDB accounts but never played D&D is negligible, agreed? Then the number of D&D players over the...

I’d prefer a dictionary, but ultimately the AI will just use that anyway… By your definition, is every fan a player or are there fans that are not players? Is every player a fan? Is someone who never played the TTRPG but enjoyed BG3 a fan?

there are more than 5M sold PHBs, and that ignores digital copies, which probably almost double the total by now. For someone always asking for data, you sure are careless with the one you use

I played in the 80s, I have a DDB account. The people who played in the 80s are in their 50s now, not in their 80s… Chances are most stopped playing before DDB came around. I see no reason why the percentage of players with a DDB account would be significantly lower for people in their 40s than...

no? Using DDB is akin to being a fan of a team, not the sport as a whole. So the number should obviously be lower than the number of fans, and even lower than the number of players over D&D’s lifetime. 20M squarely fits that bill.

how do you define fan? I see no reason to believe they were talking about a 50 years aggregate with that. Hard enough to come up with a number of current fans, I don’t think you have any chance at a realistic total over the last 50 years

The number I mentioned was 50M players, not 80 (the 85M were fans, however that is defined). The number of players also is not the same as number of purchases, like you are comparing here

that was three new hires, how many are there that this is cherry picking?