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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonbait" data-source="post: 4756867" data-attributes="member: 29182">I thought it was selling fairly well, but I'm recalling a brief period when 3E came out and several different sources in The Biz claimed it was the first time you could make money off of role-playing games (I started seeing well stocked shelves at B&N, B. Daltons, the WoTC store opened*, the massive amount of d20 books flooded the market, lots of new D&D-related video games, the movie *shudder*, and so on). It makes me wonder what -those- numbers were and how do they compare to 3.5E and 4E numbers?*An anecdote: The company that was purchased by Wizards of the Coast and changed to the WoTC store was called the Game Keeper. I worked for the Game Keeper a year before it was bought out and when 3E was just months away. At that time I was trying to push for a resupply of roleplaying game books (namely AD&D 2ed, which sold within a day each time the books were stocked). The branch manager told me that they don't sell at all and that it was a dead buisness. Well look who bought out the company. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>