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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 8686373" data-attributes="member: 6716779">Other way round the basic starter set data we have indicates Basic outsold it.  800k sales total vs 600k in one year.  We don't actually have the data required. One can say Basic is the biggest selling D&D if all time that we have numbers for.  WotC have claimed 5E is the most successful D&D of all time but never gave details on what metric they used eg sales, profit or revenue. I'm confident 5E revenue is higher in raw numbers than 1983 but they may not have adjusted for inflation. It's been well known for years Basic red box sold over a million maybe 1.5.  But the 82 and black box versions also sold more by themselves than some editions plus the red box.</blockquote>