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the 50-80M was WotC, at the beginning and end of 2024 I believe (with the latter being ‘fans’, whatever that means) https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-68315411.amp “After seeing a big surge in popularity online during the pandemic, an estimated 50 million people now take part.”...

D&D is pretty much never innovative, market leaders rarely are, too risky I’d say I am curious, but not excited (much too early for that). The same would be true for a theoretical new setting. did they succeed with that? Seems to have had pretty average sales… It’s not really what I am looking...

the whole classic era is pretty bad though, it is classic because it was the first time these things were done, not because they were so great. That being said, those guys were the veterans in the field, not the newcomers, it’s just that TTRPGs were still new and arising out if wargaming (which...

so, coming online now, as I wrote your definition of old differs from mine, you are not old once you are over 25 I really do not care who creates what at WotC, either I like it or I don’t. Going by 5e the 40-50 years olds had no problem creating a version that sells to teenagers however

and what is the estimate now? Somewhere between 50 and 80M that is clearly wrong / too low, the PHB was already at around 4-5x PHB 1e sales in 2023, and that does not count digital

When, in the Renaissance? Today you tend to go to univeristy etc., so yeah, they barely come online now 20 to 25 is not what I consider old I do not see inexperience as the hallmark of quality, maybe you do

the 2e settings are on the DMsGuild, most of the bigger ones also are open for 5e products, DS might be the last holdout on that. As to people born in this century innovating, they are what, at most 25? Guess they slowly come online around now. We will see what they will create, ultimately it...

I maybe would have agreed with that 15 years ago, but 'recent' events do not support this

It still was a lot less 'popular' of a fiction topic than it is now. They were not the ones who invented the topic, but I'd say they were ahead of the curve on it.

I am not even sure I will see them then, well ToV and A5e are offering theirs as PDFs, so I buy those instead

I am ok with that, open up the 2014 books on DMsGuild, don’t care about the 2024 ones all that much anyway

ten times, easily, 100 times, probably not

environmental issues certainly were relatively new in the 80s, dictators were around since the beginning of time

because that clearly has stopped the spread of their books...

According to Ben's charts, DS sold more than Planescape or Ravenloft did and on par with Spelljammer. FR, GH and DL sold more

no one said all evil all the time, net negative however… absolutely