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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6365254" data-attributes="member: 996">You know those are fleeting rankings.  One reason they mean so little.  It takes very little to spike for a little while on Amazon, it takes a lot to out-sell something mainstream for a year, if something from D&D makes the top 100 for the year, that'd be something prior D&D products hadn't done.   And, it's not like we could make a valid comparison among Amazon rankings for the last 4 editions, since Amazon didn't even exist for all of 'em.Core books sell bigger than supplements and they sell biggest early, that's the way D&D sells, WotC has come right out and said it.  I'm pretty sure TSR was well aware of it, too, and said so. Take it up with them if it bothers you.  5e is currently selling well, which is great, but don't read too much into it.  Every new ed has sold well at first, and dropped off later.  5e promises to have a lot fewer releases, and, given the way Amazon and IcV2 put their rankings together, it could easily fall off the top spot on weeks or quarters it has nothing much coming out and someone else (like Paizo's Pathfinder) does.  It won't mean much if that does happen - not that it's being rejected or that people have stopped playing it or anything, just that it didn't offer much new to the market in some point in time.</blockquote>