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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6784081" data-attributes="member: 6716779">It was Ryan Dancey who supplied the 300k in its 1st month and 500k in the 3.0 lifetime figure. Eric Mona in March last year IIRC supplied the following figures.3.0 500k3.5 250k-350kPathfinder 250k  10 Million dollars is the minimum I would say 5E has got based on the ICV2 figures and it actually checks out quite well with the estimates based on the Amazon sales figures. (100-200k PHB sales would account for 5-10 million of that figure). In the D&D context though that is selling faster than every other D&D book (in its 1st year) apart from 3.0, the Red Basic boxed set and maybe 2Es PHB 1st year (depending on 5E PHB final sales). When they say smash hit that is no exaggeration. Margins on the 3.0 PHB apparently were very thin since they sold in in 2000 at 1989's prices so yeah it is believable that claims of 5E doing better than 3.0 are true. IDK if they have claimed 5E has sold more than 3.0 or at least the PHB. d20 was everywhere the size of the WoTC forums were a magnitude larger than the last few years (and probably ENworld as well), they had FR authors on the FR boards and you could type a response up and by the time you finished it could be on the following page.3E is not my favourite D&D and it only beats OD&D and 4E in my list of preferred D&D. I am under no illusions as to how successful it was and it is called the silver age for a reason<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. I still think of TSR era D&D was the zenith, genesis (as a popular brand) apogee, apex etc etc etc of the D&D line. I play 5E/Pathfinder/SWSE because that is what others like playing and I can get the players easier. 5E is the best D&D wotc has managed to produce IMHO although its not perfect of course (neither is AD&D/BECMI).</blockquote>

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