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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 7892883" data-attributes="member: 1">When the Amazon page for Explorer's Guide to Wildemount leaked, the book went straight to #15 in all books (not just games, or even just fantasy - all books!) on Amazon before WotC had even said a word about it. It quickly jumped to #3 on Monday, and as of today... it is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-books-Amazon/zgbs/books" target="_blank">currently sitting at #1. In ALL books</a>.[prbreak][/prbreak][ATTACH=full]117471[/ATTACH] Screenshot for posterity! It sits there, just above Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite by Peter Schweizer  (note -- that is not an invitation to start discussing American politics on EN World), and Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson.Last year, <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/criticalrole/critical-role-the-legend-of-vox-machina-animated-s" target="_blank">Critical Role's Kickstarter for an animated show</a> based on their livestream smashed records and raised over $11,000,000. It then went on to get <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/critical-role-amazon-orders-2-seasons-of-the-legend-of-vox-machina.668369/" target="_blank">picked up by Amazon</a> for a full series. While there are people on the web confidently declaring that this book will never sell, I think it's safe to say not only will it sell, it already has. Critical Role these days is a brand as strong as D&D itself. Indeed, a couple of years back <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/dungeons-dragons-has-15-million-players-in-na-alone-storyline-is-the-da-vinci-code-meets-gangs-o.665373/" target="_blank">when speaking to the Seattle Times</a>, WotC indicated that  more than 50% of new player watched live-streamed games.</blockquote>

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