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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8419324" data-attributes="member: 86653">From here:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/july-survey[/URL]&quot;The popularity of settings in the survey fell into three distinct clusters. Not surprisingly, our most popular settings from prior editions landed at the top of the rankings, with Eberron, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Planescape, and the Forgotten Realms all proving equally popular. Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Spelljammer all shared a similar level of second-tier popularity, followed by a fairly steep drop-off to the rest of the settings. My sense is that Spelljammer has often lagged behind the broad popularity of other settings, falling into love-it-or-hate-it status depending on personal tastes. Greyhawk and Dragonlance hew fairly close to the assumptions we used in creating the fifth edition rulebooks, making them much easier to run with material from past editions. Of the top five settings, four require significant new material to function and the fifth is by far our most popular world.&quot;It's important to note that's from 2015. So before the massive wave of new D&amp;D fans. So that's a fairly good gauge of the older fans' taste in settings. What the wave of new fans prefer, we don't know...I'm not sure what you're using for the FR numbers there. But those aren't great numbers. Ravenloft has two books out (three if you count the revise coffin set) and it's October, &quot;scary&quot; stuff sees a sales bump pre-Halloween. The rest have one book each except FR, which has...nearly every D&amp;D book and adventure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8419324, member: 86653"] From here: [URL unfurl="true"]https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/july-survey[/URL] "The popularity of settings in the survey fell into three distinct clusters. Not surprisingly, our most popular settings from prior editions landed at the top of the rankings, with [B][I]Eberron, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Planescape, and the Forgotten Realms all proving equally popular[/I][/B]. [I][B]Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Spelljammer all shared a similar level of second-tier popularity[/B][/I], followed by [I][B]a fairly steep drop-off to the rest of the settings[/B][/I]. My sense is that Spelljammer has often lagged behind the broad popularity of other settings, falling into love-it-or-hate-it status depending on personal tastes. Greyhawk and Dragonlance hew fairly close to the assumptions we used in creating the fifth edition rulebooks, making them much easier to run with material from past editions. Of the top five settings, four require significant new material to function and the fifth is by far our most popular world." It's important to note that's from 2015. So before the massive wave of new D&D fans. So that's a fairly good gauge of the older fans' taste in settings. What the wave of new fans prefer, we don't know... I'm not sure what you're using for the FR numbers there. But those aren't great numbers. Ravenloft has two books out (three if you count the revise coffin set) and it's October, "scary" stuff sees a sales bump pre-Halloween. The rest have one book each except FR, which has...nearly every D&D book and adventure. [/QUOTE]

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