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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dave2008" data-source="post: 9601484" data-attributes="member: 83242">Yes, it was discussed on these forums quite a bit. IIRC, it was Ben Riggs you shared the info. It was either in his book or extra data he provided to hype his book. I could be conflating stories though. IIRC the 5e era sales data was based on bookscan sales information from big-box retailers (not FLGS, direct sales, and sometimes not Amazon). The weakest books were selling approx. 75K in a year per bookscan which is estimated to be 50% or less of the total book sales. So even the weakest 5e books likely sold more than 150K in the first year and they sold well enough to remain in print much longer than that.Those are still not the only reason for 5e's pop culture success IMO.</blockquote>