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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6773459" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>I'm not sure it's worth the effort. The thing is, as long as we stick with generalities, I think we're basically in agreement - 5e is doing exceptionally well. Once we get to a specific sales figure, though, the only people who have the actual data are WotC, and they're not for sharing (and I can't fault them for that). Plus, it's also worth noting that WotC haven't claimed they made those sales - they said they <em>wanted</em> to exceed that figure, which is a slightly different thing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, I'm afraid that's a relative measure. There are only two Pathfinder books that I would expect have beaten 100k: the Core Rulebook and the first Bestiary. (I may, of course, be wrong about that - in either direction.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Second</em> monster manuals, certainly. I doubt anyone would claim MM5 as one of the top sellers for D&D 3e, or Bestiary 5 for Pathfinder. I'm sure they do well enough... but in the low tens rather than the low hundreds of thousands.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sure. Again, I don't doubt 5e is doing exceptionally well. Indeed, I wouldn't have any great trouble believing that they'd sold a million PHBs by now. It's the other end of the scale I'm sceptical of - their <em>weakest</em> selling book has really sold more copies than just about <em>any</em> supplement since the 80s?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6773459, member: 22424"] I'm not sure it's worth the effort. The thing is, as long as we stick with generalities, I think we're basically in agreement - 5e is doing exceptionally well. Once we get to a specific sales figure, though, the only people who have the actual data are WotC, and they're not for sharing (and I can't fault them for that). Plus, it's also worth noting that WotC haven't claimed they made those sales - they said they [i]wanted[/i] to exceed that figure, which is a slightly different thing. Again, I'm afraid that's a relative measure. There are only two Pathfinder books that I would expect have beaten 100k: the Core Rulebook and the first Bestiary. (I may, of course, be wrong about that - in either direction.) [i]Second[/i] monster manuals, certainly. I doubt anyone would claim MM5 as one of the top sellers for D&D 3e, or Bestiary 5 for Pathfinder. I'm sure they do well enough... but in the low tens rather than the low hundreds of thousands. Sure. Again, I don't doubt 5e is doing exceptionally well. Indeed, I wouldn't have any great trouble believing that they'd sold a million PHBs by now. It's the other end of the scale I'm sceptical of - their [i]weakest[/i] selling book has really sold more copies than just about [i]any[/i] supplement since the 80s? [/QUOTE]
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