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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Craddock" data-source="post: 9719145" data-attributes="member: 6883885">I work directly with Darrington Press, they are very professional and refreshing to work with. They sent me my Dagghearts 3 weeks early which was great.I've been tracking sales since they began bundling physical products with Dragonlance. My sales have slowly trended downwards since then. We opened in 1981, and I've been doing this since 1999 (I started shopping here in 1983). It gives me a lot of data to mine. Obviously, the OGL Fiasco didn't help things. Factoring 2023, 2024, and 2025 sales of the DnD segment has slowed considerably, but other RPG sales are up. I've been demoing a lot of alternative games since 2023, and with the release of the 2 Realms books, I will spotlight the setting and 5.5, so we will see how that goes. While our sales for 2025 have exceeded my projections despite the current Administration, I want to assess where my DnD fandom is at, and I've found running in-store events to be a good barometer.I'm glad your sales don't seem to be as affected.As for Magic, I've been doom and gloom about it since 2019 and I keep getting proven wrong. With how early they started online preorders for Final Fantasy I really worried how the set would do but I listened to my co-workers and was pleasantly surprised. When you factor Dragonstorm & Foundations selling out its been good for us. Since 2022 our tournament scene has exploded. We average at least 40 a night and had to expand our Commander events to a second night. I don't think it can last forever and I'm still conservative, we survived Fallen Empires, but we have very much become a magic store that sells comics.</blockquote>

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