D&D 5E (2024) One Store's Sales (D&D 2014 & 2024)

[Maenalis]

Settings and adventures are considered two different categories. But I dont see salient difference between them. For example the Forgotten Realms setting is a book of player options (crunch) plus a book of adventures.

Essentially, an "adventure" is a local setting. A setting may or may not add new player options.

World settings: Oerth, Toril, Eberron, Athas, Astral Sea ...
Regional settings: West Faerun, Kara-Tur, Theros, Outlands ...
Local settings: Blackmoor, Greyhawk, Balders Gate, Menzoberranzan, Phandelver, Sigil, Strixhaven, ...

I was just noodling around.

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[SlyFlourish]

I added the starter category.View attachment 421672

Adventure	668	20.47%
Core	1057	32.39%
Crunch	500	15.32%
Misc	378	11.58%
Setting	354	10.85%
Starter	306	9.38%

This is 5.14 & 5.24 combined.

My apologies, I am not a data scientist or IT professional. Just watching TV with family and thinking about D&D.

Not to get all data sciency on you (I actually play a data scientist during business hours). The percentages, I think, can be misleading because they're total products and there are a lot more adventures than core products. Off the top of my head, dividing by the number of unique products might give us a better percentage. I'm not suggesting you do that but it's a thought in general.

 

[darjr]

comparing the starter to the core I wonder how much that holds up when the original starting was sellilng 300k that one year? (maybe more after).

 

[Benjamin Olson]

194 STARTER 2014 LAST MINES OF PHANDELVER 14-Jul

I already celebrate the collective misremembering of the "Mines of Phandelver" as being plural, since to me it stands for how the module grew in 5e folk memory far beyond its humble origins as the budget-conscious taster adventure. So I really love that in your store they are also "Last" instead of "Lost".

 

[Lanefan]

In the OP table, the dates given are kinda meaningless without a year attached to each one.

 

[aco175]

I already celebrate the collective misremembering of the "Mines" as being plural, since to me it stands for how the module grew in 5e folk memory far beyond its humble origins as the budget-conscious taster adventure. So I really love that in your store they are also "Last" instead of "Lost".

The last ones you will ever need?

The first shall be last?

Last one in, First one out?

 

[bedir than]

In the OP table, the dates given are kinda meaningless without a year attached to each one.

I think they are year-month

 

[darjr]

I think they are year-month

They are. Release year-month.

 

[Lanefan]

I think they are year-month

Ah, of course. I saw "23-Aug" and assumed it meant August the 23rd, and so on. Silly me.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I was just noodling around.

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The big takeaway from that is that adventures sold a lot better than settings. If that's reflected in WotC's data, it would suggest that the current setting/adventure ratio is too high.