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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8692064" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>I would bet that if we had Wizards numbers from 2000 to the 5e rollout you'd see similar shapes to the graphs if not exactly the same numbers.  The core books having a long tail of sales, individual supplements having a huge burst of sales on initial release and then tapering off quickly.  I suspect this because of some of the things that the D&D team were saying during the 5e rollout about backing off on the monthly release schedule that they'd been using since they bought TSR. There was some indication that it followed the same kind of curves - big numbers right at release, and then a relatively quick drop-off. I don't know if they knew that they'd get a long tail of sales out of supplements when they decided to do it or if it was just that they couldn't do anything else and it worked out in their favor, but either way it was the standard up until 5e.</p></blockquote><p></p>