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.

 

[Reynard]

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.

We wou8ld need to see a year by year (or better, quarter by quarter) sales history overlaid against the Beyond subscriber base to glean any real information.

 

[DEFCON 1]

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

You weren't alone in that. When I first saw the dates attached I kept wondering why it mattered to the information what day of the month the book was released on, LOL!

 

[darjr]

A very wise man, including the OP, cautioned that this is one stores sales numbers.

I think it’s awesome but it’s important to take these as what they are.

 

[Parmandur]

We wou8ld need to see a year by year (or better, quarter by quarter) sales history overlaid against the Beyond subscriber base to glean any real information.

Oh, yeah, it isn't "real information" in that sense.

Nevertheless, books released after Behond starts direct physical sales are selling less, which would match with statements about the success of direct sales for WotC.