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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RyanD" data-source="post: 3280644" data-attributes="member: 3312">Over its lifetime, the 1E PHB outsold the 2E PHB by a good margin.  I don't have sales figures to back this up, but I'm pretty confident that the 3E PHB has sold more units than the 1E PHB did, although it's a close race.I think I've posted elsewhere that at the end of 1E, the 1E PHB was selling about 50K units a year, and the first year of sales of the 2e PHB generated about 250K units of sales.Early in its lifecycle, the 1E PHB generated several years (I want to say 5 to 7) of sales well above 200K, and the slowdown in 1E PHBs was much more gradual than the slowdown of 2E PHBs, which was pretty dramatic.One thing that many people don't know is that the RPG category, as a whole, had dropped by nearly 50% in terms of unit & revenue between 1990 and 1993.  In fact, had Magic and the CCG category not developed, the gaming industry as we know it was almost certainly doomed.  RPGs would have been moved to the book chains (which had their own near death experiences as they shifted from mall-based stores to Big Box retail stores).  Many of the factors that brought down TSR were affecting every RPG publisher in the market at that time.  TSR's woes just continued for a long time masked by CCG sales, and some financial manipulation of their book trade accounts.</blockquote>