I know there have been a lot of these threads, and I'm holding off on any kind of overarching summary/compilation article until they're all in, but this one in particular jumped out at me. Again, this is from Ben Riggs, author of Slaying the Dragon, a history of TSR-era D&D, going out next month.
This graph shows a number of legacy settings and the total sales of their core setting product. Forgotten Realms is, of course, the top one. Interestingly, the other two settings that WotC has revisited in 5E -- Ravenloft and Spelljammer -- are near the bottom of the chart.
Ben says he will be providing the remaining settings tomorrow, and I'll update this post with those when he does.
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This graph shows a number of legacy settings and the total sales of their core setting product. Forgotten Realms is, of course, the top one. Interestingly, the other two settings that WotC has revisited in 5E -- Ravenloft and Spelljammer -- are near the bottom of the chart.
Ben says he will be providing the remaining settings tomorrow, and I'll update this post with those when he does.
- Forgotten Realms
- Greyhawk
- Dragonlance
- Ravenloft
- Dark Sun
- Spelljammer