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D&D Has the Biggest Playerbase, So Why is it the Hardest for 3rd Party to Market Too?
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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7424876" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>I know, with a million games for example even if 10% complete the APs that is still going to be 100 000 groups completing it. Or 10 000 if its 100k. That is still only 10% though and a lot of people will buy anything with the D&D name on it, collectors, the hard core, people who like D&D but do not have a group.</p><p></p><p> I know the APs have been designed for the year thing, they are/were releasing 2 a year. We know the PHB is selling well, the goal is to sell 100k whether or not they met that goal with every release IDK. I suspect HotDQ is the biggest selling one and that is a terrible adventure (I own it), and that is based on when it came out not the adventure actually being good. So sales are not related to quality or even people playing it IMHO but more with the D&D brand, 5E overall success, when the adventure came out etc. The good adventures IMHO are PotA, LMoP, Tomb of Annihilation maybe Strahd but not a RL/Strahd fan so I skipped that one. </p><p></p><p> Rise of Tiamat is a decent book end its redeeming quality being its better than HotD. HotDQ had some nice chapters to mine, OotA looks like to much effort to run, SKT looked weak. Wonder how many people completed the Dragon duology or even made it to RoT. APs by their nature are going to be hit and miss, Paizo made 4 good early ones in a row then kinda dropped the ball with a couple.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 7424876, member: 6716779"] I know, with a million games for example even if 10% complete the APs that is still going to be 100 000 groups completing it. Or 10 000 if its 100k. That is still only 10% though and a lot of people will buy anything with the D&D name on it, collectors, the hard core, people who like D&D but do not have a group. I know the APs have been designed for the year thing, they are/were releasing 2 a year. We know the PHB is selling well, the goal is to sell 100k whether or not they met that goal with every release IDK. I suspect HotDQ is the biggest selling one and that is a terrible adventure (I own it), and that is based on when it came out not the adventure actually being good. So sales are not related to quality or even people playing it IMHO but more with the D&D brand, 5E overall success, when the adventure came out etc. The good adventures IMHO are PotA, LMoP, Tomb of Annihilation maybe Strahd but not a RL/Strahd fan so I skipped that one. Rise of Tiamat is a decent book end its redeeming quality being its better than HotD. HotDQ had some nice chapters to mine, OotA looks like to much effort to run, SKT looked weak. Wonder how many people completed the Dragon duology or even made it to RoT. APs by their nature are going to be hit and miss, Paizo made 4 good early ones in a row then kinda dropped the ball with a couple. [/QUOTE]
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