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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8708524" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>Considering the whole failure of TSR was that they were producing boxed sets at massive losses and no one knew what was actually selling unless it was selling poorly. Compared to other settings released at the time, yes according to sales SPelljammer was an albatross eking out its existence, It really can't be spun any other way. It applies to a lot of TSR's settings and products though because the company was so mismanaged but of the material available at that time it was the poorest seller. AS AD&D2e slogged along and sales dwindled a product that sold poorer than Spelljammer could be considered a great success like comparing X-men sales in 1998 to 1991, comparing Jim Lee's X-Men no. 4 to X-men no 100 of course it looks really bad, the industry had a massive crash and Marvel had declared bankruptcy but X-men was still one of the industry's top selling titles so Spelljammer's 80k units may have been a skunk in 1989 when AD&D was selling much better than when Planescape sold 64k in 1994 when Random House was returning unsold books, boxed sets and other materials and demanding payment on unsold products.</p></blockquote><p></p>