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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6927916" data-attributes="member: 6716779">I do actually, Dancey over on the GitP forums. I will have to do some digging but he posted figures there that IIRC were this.1E 1.5 MillionRed Box 1 million + (no one actually knows, I have seen 1-3 million thrown around but but most estimates are 1-1.5 million)3E 1 million+ (includes 3.0 and 3.5)2E 750k Now 3E is an interesting one as once again how do you count it? Mona also provided some figures apparently and did break them down.3.0 500k+3.5 250-350kPF 250 So how much 500k+ actually is or where on the 250k-350k range 3.5 sits IDK. So Dancey's figure is a bit higher but not drastically so (ball park figures sort of thing).  The 3.x family (3.0, 3.5, Pathfinder) has outsold everything that is not from the golden age, individually it is a bit harder to say but it would seem the 2E PHB has outsold 3.0 if Mona is correct and Dancey did not break 3.0/3.5 into separate numbers.  There are also other sources which however do broadly match up with some of Danceys statements as the Arceum has put up print numbers for OSR material and they do look similar to Danceys numbers and in a 1999 interview Gary Gygax said 1E outsold 2E 2-1 which is what Dancey provided and the OSR sources also  support his 1 million+ red box and PHB claims. In the Red boxes cases no one is 100% certain though of exact numbers as TSR record keeping was actually that bad. TSR being the same company who did not know they were selling the Planescape boxed set at a loss.  2E sales were also something like 280k in the 1st year (3.0 300k 1st month), that is according to Dancey in one of his I am so great interviews from around a decade ago but 2E did last for 11 years in print and WoTC also reprinted the core books+ things like Tome of Magic and the players option books. It was more the novels, settings (sold at loss+splintering the fanbase) and Dragon Dice that killed TSR not 2E itself as such.</blockquote>

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