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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8696232" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Well, maybe? Except the Monster Manual (1e) was being sold way back in 1977! And it was always a big seller....and we know that for most rules books, there is a peak the first year, and then a drop off after that.I mean ... it's weird, right? That we still don't know so much about basic things like sales of the various editions? Even this article is, technically, just an announcement from Wizards- and for all we know, they are counting "sales" as  going into distribution, not the end-sale. Who knows?Not to mention if we were really being picky, we'd have to recognize that America gained 60 million people between 1980 and 2000. So, like inflation, we'd have to adjust for that.I'd love to have someone with all the figures doing a deep dive. My impression is that the "Golden Age" was 1980-1983, there was a second mini boom (a silver age?) when 3e was released, and we are now experiencing a long Platinum Age of sales.But that's just a gut feeling- and my gut is often wrong too! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>