D&D 5E (2014) Amazon US book sales rank.

[darjr]

Someone said they saw it at 15!

 

[darjr]

Keys is at 150 and Tyranny is at 350.

 

[Nikosandros]

Looking around, it seems that Spielleiter is a pretty generic term in German, and can be used of both sports referrees, tour guides, or convention organizers (any sort of convention) in addition to tabletop wargaming and RPG purposes.

So the German term is actually really old-school. DM's used to be called referees in OD&D.

 

[Parmandur]

Someone said they saw it at 15!

Holy Toledo. Even given that it's due to Prime Day sales and such, that's still a mighty huge jump.

 

[Parmandur]

Strixhaven is a good ways down the list of D&D books, but it still in the top 900 of all books...the top 900 are chockablock with all sorts of D&D products right now:

 

[TerraDave]

So there are almost 20 D&D books in the top 1000?? D&D - 2% of books.

 

[Parmandur]

So there are almost 20 D&D books in the top 1000?? D&D - 2% of books.

Well, 2% of that cream of the crop...still, yeah, bonkers. A year into the loud, publicized playtest for new core books...

 

[Parmandur]

Monster Manual is on sale, and entered the top 100 in all books today:

And the PHB is still plugging along:

 

[Parmandur]

Hat-tip to @ersatzphil for bringing this to my attention, thought this might be of interest to the posters in this thread. Roll for C9mbat with guest Professor Dungeon Master take a look at professional book sales data limited to big box stores like Target, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, or Books a Million im the US only, so excluding any FLGS or Amazon or bon-Amerucan sales. Apparently not including Amazon or hobby channels or non-domestic data, the 5E PHB has sold over 1.6 million copies, and is selling 2000 copies a week currently. There was no effect on sales during the OGL fiasco, but Honor Among Thieves did lead to a sales surge for a while there (2000 is the regular, steady sales rate). The 5E PHB has sold over ten times what the 3.5 PHB did in the same channels, which UCLA apparently has determined equates to about 75% of the usual book sales market (but might be far less for a hobby game, so take this as a minimum to talk about relative sales).

The DMG has sold over 800,000 copies in these channels and the MM over 700,000. The commentators seem confused thst there are only two PHB sales per DMG, but my experience is that usually the DM owns the sole PHB in a group, so thst tracks to me.

Apparently Hoard of the Dragon Queen is the all time best selling Adventure, and still sells regularly in these channels, followed by Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Curse of Strahd and Tales from the Yawning Portal. Worth a watch, sorry if thisnis off-topic @darjr but this seems like a good place to put the info out.

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[Reynard]

Apparently Hoard of the Dragon Queen is the all time best selling Adventure, and still sells regularly in these channels, followed by Waterdeep: Dragon Heist,

Wow, the worst adventures are number 1 and 2.