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Actual! Dark Sun! Sales numbers!
Dark Sun follows the same pattern we’ve seen with so many other AD&D 2nd edition settings. The first release sells best, sales decline and then fall off a cliff. Follow-up releases fail to do as well as initial releases and then sputter out as well.
Here you will also find a chart comparing Dark Sun’s cumulative setting sales to the other AD&D settings we’ve already discussed. For those of you keeping score at home, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Forgotten Realms are the only settings to sell more than 200,000 copies over their lifetimes.
Tomorrow, we will finish our discussion of settings sales with a grand sweep of the company’s remaining settings: Planescape, Al-Qadim, Birthright, Red Steel, Karameikos, etc.
Have you preordered my book on D&D history, Slaying the Dragon, yet? If you preorder now, you get a free Jeff Easley bookplate! This offer ends in a mere six days, so take advantage of it now! Link below!
Also, in comments below are snips of the actual data used to generate the charts.
Dark Sun follows the same pattern we’ve seen with so many other AD&D 2nd edition settings. The first release sells best, sales decline and then fall off a cliff. Follow-up releases fail to do as well as initial releases and then sputter out as well.
Here you will also find a chart comparing Dark Sun’s cumulative setting sales to the other AD&D settings we’ve already discussed. For those of you keeping score at home, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Forgotten Realms are the only settings to sell more than 200,000 copies over their lifetimes.
Tomorrow, we will finish our discussion of settings sales with a grand sweep of the company’s remaining settings: Planescape, Al-Qadim, Birthright, Red Steel, Karameikos, etc.
Have you preordered my book on D&D history, Slaying the Dragon, yet? If you preorder now, you get a free Jeff Easley bookplate! This offer ends in a mere six days, so take advantage of it now! Link below!
Also, in comments below are snips of the actual data used to generate the charts.
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