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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 8696062" data-attributes="member: 6688049">Yet the Mentzer Expert Set refers to it as a “setting” called the “D&D Campaign” and the “campaign game.” Besides that chapter, the intro paragraphs are also focused on the setting—indicating that it’s the main theme of that boxed set.It is a Campaign Setting; just formatted differently than the archetypal 1990s-style TSR “campaign setting” boxed set.In any case, my point is that the way that Ben has picked and displayed products, is going to give short shrift to Mystara for several reasons:1) Mystara’s initial campaign setting—the Cook and Mentzer Expert Sets, weren’t counted.2) Later, Mystara was mostly displayed in the GAZ series, which Ben didn’t count.3) The Hollow World boxed set, Champions of Mystara (Voyage of the Princess Ark campaign box), and Red Steel boxed set weren’t counted at all.4) the AD&D Mystara boxed set, was, at the last minute, split into a whole series of boxed sets: Karameikos, Glantri, etc. which is why Jeff Grubb quit TSR.Glad to hear (over on fb) that Ben is going to show the Karameikos boxed set sales. But again, this will be a measly under-representation of how many “consumer impressions” were made by the Mystara setting.I’d ask Ben to really bundle all of the world-specific products, including adventures, campaign expansions, etc. —then we’d see a truer picture of how many consumer impressions each setting made.His comparisons so far are just the tip of the iceberg.</blockquote>

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