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<blockquote data-quote="darjr" data-source="post: 7213612" data-attributes="member: 52905"><p>The Tome Show interviews Stan! Epic figure of RPG goodness and all around nice guy. Despite the exclamation point!</p><p></p><p>They cover a lot of cool topics, like when he used to work at TSR and after suffering long with foot stools and death trap office 'chairs' they actually found a secret moon room full of chairs! Real chairs! I wonder what ever happened to those chairs. Does WotC have them now?</p><p></p><p>Any way at about 19:11 or 19:48 he talks about the highest selling RPG ever, the Pokemon RPG he wrote at WotC. It sold 800,000 copies in short order. The very interesting bit I almost missed? 5e is close to selling 800,000 copies! He did say, "I think", and "maybe", but he's at WotC and in a position to know. He doesn't say if that's PHB's or all books combined, but it shure sounds like the he meant the PHB. Nor does he say if it's electronic versions or not.</p><p></p><p>Finally he talked about a kitbashed 5e version of Spelljammer they are running in the office, at about 43:30 into the podcast. Could it mean? naw! Nothing at WotC starts as a skunkworks kit bashed thing just for fun. Not even 5e.......</p><p></p><p>Anyway I really like the Gamer to Gamer podcasts from the Tome Show.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.thetomeshow.com/e/stan-gamer-to-gamer/" target="_blank">http://www.thetomeshow.com/e/stan-gamer-to-gamer/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darjr, post: 7213612, member: 52905"] The Tome Show interviews Stan! Epic figure of RPG goodness and all around nice guy. Despite the exclamation point! They cover a lot of cool topics, like when he used to work at TSR and after suffering long with foot stools and death trap office 'chairs' they actually found a secret moon room full of chairs! Real chairs! I wonder what ever happened to those chairs. Does WotC have them now? Any way at about 19:11 or 19:48 he talks about the highest selling RPG ever, the Pokemon RPG he wrote at WotC. It sold 800,000 copies in short order. The very interesting bit I almost missed? 5e is close to selling 800,000 copies! He did say, "I think", and "maybe", but he's at WotC and in a position to know. He doesn't say if that's PHB's or all books combined, but it shure sounds like the he meant the PHB. Nor does he say if it's electronic versions or not. Finally he talked about a kitbashed 5e version of Spelljammer they are running in the office, at about 43:30 into the podcast. Could it mean? naw! Nothing at WotC starts as a skunkworks kit bashed thing just for fun. Not even 5e....... Anyway I really like the Gamer to Gamer podcasts from the Tome Show. [url]http://www.thetomeshow.com/e/stan-gamer-to-gamer/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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