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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8697552" data-attributes="member: 19857">And this curve helps to explain why the other curves could look so bad but TSR would just keep throwing games at the wall and see what stuck.Their novel lines were doing reasonable numbers while their game lines were tanking.  But the material for the novel lines was coming from the game lines so TSR kept telling their creative folks to create more worlds to set novels in.  I'll bet the numbers for the Ravenloft novel line are also pretty good - and the FR numbers would have been even better - even as the game lines themselves were not selling big numbers.And that strategy worked until it didn't. Which I'd like to see more novel lines to make a more than educated judgment about, but with these numbers appears to be right around 1996. Which is not coincidentally when Random House sued TSR for lack of payment on their loan money and cut off the money fountain that TSR was relying on.</blockquote>