D&D 5E How much money is D&D 5e actually making?

[darjr]

All of that assumes they can justify development time for it. Though maybe making 4e customers happy is worth it. I dunno.

 

[Tony Vargas]

All of that assumes they can justify development time for it.

I threw a few radical ideas out there, the simplest might be a matter of drag, drop, publish.
Others might be as Sisyphean as getting psionics into a publishable state....

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Compared to owning books, the difference matters.

You didn’t pay to own the books. You payed for unlimited digital access to a compendium and character and monster/encounter building tools with all dnd 4e content. And you got it. At an incredible price.

DDI was one of the best subscription deals I’ve ever heard of, by a truly bonkers margin. It was a bargain every single time you made your payment.

Complaining that you can no longer pay couch change for access to nearly $2,000 worth of material is so completely and absurdly ungrateful that I’m a little pissed off, and I’m not even affected by it.

You genuinely have got to be joking.

 

[darjr]

I threw a few radical ideas out there, the simplest might be a matter of drag, drop, publish.
Others might be as Sisyphean as getting psionics into a publishable state....

I dint see any of your options being that simple.

 

[Parmandur]

which is, admittedly, most of the better stuff.

Compared to owning books, the difference matters.

Offer the offline version, fully updated?
Release a 4e OGL/SRD so that 3pps can clone the game and pick up support for it?

..and, oh, better-enable the styles of play that 4e opened up, by, among other things, IDK, just off the top of my head...
finally putting a worthy full-class 5e Warlord in print...

A 5E Warlord is the most likely of those, and that's a long shot. No ROI there.

However, they do sell the 4E books still.

 

[darjr]

Also I just checked. PHB is still at 28 and PF2 core is at 2109. So I think it’s back to semi normal. Maybe.

 

[Alby87]

Oh, I see. Yes, AAA video game titles have indeed become outrageously expensive to develop. As for the never being a great AAA title, it's unlikely, but not impossible for a couple reasons:

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[wedgeski]

I have a shelf full of 5E books. Not all, but most, and some with the more expensive covers. On a table of five, we had, I think, four PHB's until the end of lockdown, but since then half my table has begun exploring DM'ing for various friends and family, and as a consequence they've bought a shed full of material as well. It's long been understood that DM's buy the lion's share of the physical releases, and nothing that I've seen disagrees with that assessment.

On top of that I've got one top-tier DNDB account, which I've had since the start, and a few extra digital purchases when they become relevant to my homebrew. The ability to buy monsters and items individually from the DNDB store has kept that expenditure to a minimum.

Edit: Oof, caught by a necro storm!

 

[aco175]

I was thinking of how this thread might have changed since the lockdown and an increased production schedule by Wizards. How did the movie change things- if any. How has things gone now that things are more or less back to normal, except inflation.

For myself and my group, I may buy one book per year. I have not seen a new setting I would want to change to and most of the adventures are not for me either. We play slow enough so I can add homebrew to any published books I have. I have a couple 3pp things but not as much as 3e days. My group does buy some minis and maps and dice and stuff, but not tons. We will buy the new 5e2024 books, at least the PHB and see about the others.

 

[Jd Smith1]

I was thinking of how this thread might have changed since the lockdown and an increased production schedule by Wizards. How did the movie change things- if any. How has things gone now that things are more or less back to normal, except inflation.

For myself and my group, I may buy one book per year. I have not seen a new setting I would want to change to and most of the adventures are not for me either. We play slow enough so I can add homebrew to any published books I have. I have a couple 3pp things but not as much as 3e days. My group does buy some minis and maps and dice and stuff, but not tons. We will buy the new 5e2024 books, at least the PHB and see about the others.

I don't play D&D, but other than Roll20 Pro, my annual RPG purchases are minimal. My group's is even less.