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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 7878153" data-attributes="member: 59816">As long as we're talking about personal experiences, because of course, we can't come close to being sure about the entire truth of it:Speaking as the owner of a small(ish) comic and game store, which I've had since '93: We overall sell far more 5e books than any previous edition, but there's a few interesting things: Both 3.x and 4e sold better initially than 5e, but 5e never stopped. The core-3 STILL sell as well (or better) than they did when it started. 3.x and 4e were nearly dead by (what are we at?) 5 years in. (Another interesting side-note: Both 3.5 and 4e sold better in the year after they were replaced with the next edition than they did in their last year of being the current edition.) I remember a slew of 3.5 books near the end of it that we were hard-pressed to sell one copy of - 4e never quite got that bad for us.Now, when you take into account that I had far less competition back then (no Amazon, no D&D Beyond), I'd say 5e seems to be orders of magnitude more sell-able than previous editions. OP's experience, seems to me, to come from one of two places: You bought a lot of books back in the day, and you're more choosy now. OR - You don't particularly go for adventures, and most 5e books are adventures. (Possibly a bit of both).(Note: I don't remember in any specific way how those black 2nd edition revised books did, so I started with talking about 3.x).</blockquote>

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