D&D 5E (2024) Is WOTC done publishing campaigns?

[Zardnaar]

you do not have hard number of players for 1e or 5e, you may have hard number of PHB sales for 1e, but that is about it

I am not sure why WotC is cagey outside of a ‘it is always better to have some wiggle room’ approach, I however doubt that 1e sales have anything to do with it

1E is the highest one we have hard numbers for. 5E has trounerd it even with low estimates.

 

[ECMO3]

The US population in 1980 was 226m
The US population in 2026 is 341m

That's about a 50% increase in population. So a 50% increase in sales would be matching sales.

D&D is much more of an international game than it was then, so I don't know that the U.S population is that relevant. 1E D&D had some traction in the UK and Canada, but it was not marketed and sold worldwide like 5E is.

I think 5E written books are printed in 6 languages? I have heard there were a few Spanish 1E PHBs from the first printing in the late 70s, but if they existed they were very rare and I don't think there are any other languages 1E was printed in.