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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JLowder" data-source="post: 9698061" data-attributes="member: 28003">From 1984 to 1994, I don't believe so.* The average Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms novels were selling 100,000 copies or more (and many continue to sell okay, thirty+ years later). Ben Riggs posted some hard numbers for Dark Sun, and the Prism Pentad novels each sold several times what the boxed set sold.The fiction sales numbers generally declined in the mid-1990s through the WotC buyout, and it's possible some of the later series were not as strong as the core lines from the 80s and early 90s. But they still likely outsold the RPG products.* On second thought, Buck Rogers might be the exception. There were releases books in the fiction line were the company printed so few, we did not even get office copies in the Book Department. I don't know about all the RPG releases from that era.And if you consider The Tainted Sword a D&D book and compare it to the core 2E rulebooks, the fiction sold fewer copies than the core RPG books. But if you consider it a Mystara book, the fiction likely outsold the average Mystara RPG releases.</blockquote>