Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place

A recent interview with Business Insider revealed just how well Daggerheart did for Critical Role's Darrington Press when it first launched earlier this year. Ed Lopez, Critical Role's chief operating officer, revealed that Daggerheart sold out in two weeks. According to Lopez, Critical Role anticipated that their stock would last a year, but the game was forced to go into reprints in a hurry. "The amount of units that we ordered we thought was going to last us a year, and it lasted us literally two weeks," Lopez said. "It's a great problem, it's a Champagne problem, but it's now changing our view in terms of what this product can be."

Lopez also revealed that Darrington Press has a three-year plan in place for Daggerheart, which includes the already announced Hope & Fear expansion, which adds a new domain and several new classes and backgrounds to the game.

Lopez also spoke about the hires of Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins, stating that the two would be working on both Daggerheart and D&D material for Darrington Press. "We really want their creative juices brought to the world of 'Daggerheart.' That being said, we're also doing a bunch of 'D&D' stuff, and who better to bring in than the guys who used to do it?" Lopez said.

 

[mamba]

Start threads about them and hype them up!

or at a minimum, mention them by name in unrelated topics like your post in this one

 

[Tigris]

Nothing was kept? It did not happen, there was nothing to keep. 4e books sales where terrible compared to 5e from the start. The source that they were so great, WotC, no one else.

As for profitability? Almost certainly 5e, as it was done with a far smaller staff.

4e Did not only sell on amazon though. Looking at 1 limited fataset leads exactly to this falls claims like "pathfinder outsold D&D".


4e did sell out as well and also needed several printings:
D&D 4th edition was even sold at target and most likely similar shops. Also it was sold digitally (pdf and subscription).

 

[djotaku]

Getting back to the topic at hand - early on people wondered why CR didn't do DH as Season 4. They've already stated in multiple places that there were a number of reasons for this:

• Brennan lee Mulligan is a D&D person and it seemed unfair to invite him to GM and then change the system
• The process of planning for Season 4 and getting BLM onboard started while Daggerheart was still in production.
• With bullet #2 there, by the time they released Daggerheart and it was a giant success (unlike the lack of success for Candela Obscura) it was too late to do S4 as Daggerheart.

So I think if they go DH for the main series it'll start with Season 5. There's also the possibility of having 2 main series now that the main cast has been planning on adding other folks. Maybe some of the cast (plus new people) are in D&D game and others in cast (plus new people) are in DH game. Not sure of their bandwidth (in a time sense, not internet sense) would allow for that. They also still continue to do some voice acting, I think.

 

[Morrus]

4e Did not only sell on amazon though. Looking at 1 limited fataset leads exactly to this falls claims like "pathfinder outsold D&D". 4e did sell out as well and also needed several printings: D&D 4th edition was even sold at target and most likely similar shops. Also it was sold digitally (pdf and subscription).

Why are you linking to a Reddit post which is a link to a thread right here on EN World?

 

[Zehnseiter]

Oh god. Can this thread not go a single page without that stupid and D&D sales number flame war that interests nobody that clicks on a thread about a completely different game.

This is a thread about the sales number of Daggerheart.

I repeat DAGGERHEART.

I consider it frankly impolite behaviour to your fellow posters to permanently interrupt an ongoing discussion with this naughty word.