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

[Zardnaar]

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.

Depends. They made a lot more adventures than settings.

 

[Maenalis]

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.

The takeaway is:

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.

I was just noodling around.

All I wanted to know is: compared to Setting books how well did the "Misc" items do (maps, DM Screen etc.) and they were on par. For that my graph is sufficient.
For anything else:

1. 5.14 vs 5.24 is about a third sold thus far.

2. Adventures and settings:

• is the Dragonlance book a setting book or an adventure?
• should I count the Rick and Morty products as starter sets or adventures?
• should I count stormwreck isle as a starter set or an adventure?
• what about the starter sets in general, aren't they adventures?

... Overall I think setting books and adventure books were on par.

3. This is a non representative sample of one store, we didn't count digital sales like DnDBeyond, and online sales like Amazon. There is a HUGE over representation of special cover/deluxe etc. sold products.

Overall I think the Players Handbook and the starter sets sold way better than suggested by this data.

I didn't take this seriously, I was just noodling around.

 

[mamba]

The big takeaway from that is that adventures sold a lot better than settings.

there were more adventure books than setting books. If you take the average number per book, things will look different

 

[SlyFlourish]

The takeaway is:

I was just noodling around.

All I wanted to know is: compared to Setting books how well did the "Misc" items do (maps, DM Screen etc.) and they were on par. For that my graph is sufficient.
For anything else:

1. 5.14 vs 5.24 is about a third sold thus far.

2. Adventures and settings:

• is the Dragonlance book a setting book or an adventure?
• should I count the Rick and Morty products as starter sets or adventures?
• should I count stormwreck isle as a starter set or an adventure?
• what about the starter sets in general, aren't they adventures?

... Overall I think setting books and adventure books were on par.

3. This is a non representative sample of one store, we didn't count digital sales like DnDBeyond, and online sales like Amazon. There is a HUGE over representation of special cover/deluxe etc. sold products.

Overall I think the Players Handbook and the starter sets sold way better than suggested by this data.

I didn't take this seriously, I was just noodling around.

Yep! I wasn’t criticizing, just thinking out loud.

 

[ECMO3]

I will say I wish WOTC made more adventures, especially more that went into high level play (14+).

The settings don't do much for me and the Faerun one is the only one I bought or intend to buy, but I have played almost all of their 5E hard cover adventures, most of them I played as a player first and then went back and DMed it multiple times.

The one I haven't played - Strahd - I didn't play because it caps out at low level and a 1-8 campaign was just not enough to tweak my interest (I have played the other lower level campaigns though like Saltmarsh and Witchlight).

* Note for the purposes of this I am considering things like SODQ and Call of the Netherdeep to be adventures.

 

[Parmandur]

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.

Actually, I'd say that the big takeaway is that most books started selling a lot more slowly at @FitzTheRuke FLGS starting about late 2022...when Beyond introduced direct sales of physical books with Dragonlance and moving forwards.