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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6942729" data-attributes="member: 6716779">3.5+WoW helped crash the D&amp;D market in 2004.&nbsp;They also released 3.5 2 years early presumably to get that core book sales they saw in 2000/2001 and they kind of failed with that.&nbsp;Late 3.5 books apparently were selling very badly as they got more and more niche and quality went down- most of the good 3.5 stuff was 2004-2006. 4E did not do as well as Pathfinder which outsold it and Pathfinder did not out sell 3.5.&nbsp;3.0 did not outsell 2E although 3.0+3.5 did.&nbsp;In terms of PHB, 2E splat combined outsold everything AFAIK they lost money doing it though and bankrupted TSR (TSR almost went bankrupt twice before this) &nbsp;If you release stuff to fast you have nothing to sell later so they release a new edition and at that rate each edition was selling less than the one before it, 5E has been the 1st one to break that trend since 1983. Think about that for 33 years each edition was getting smaller and smaller.&nbsp;The 1st 3 big splat books in Pathfinder were really good, after that they went downhill. And you don't really want to lug around a heap of books and I own around 400 D&amp;D items.&nbsp;5Es schedule could be a little higher with 1-2 more books a year without bloating it much. THe less you make though the easier it is to buy all of them ($50 every 6 months vs monthly) and the pent up demand likely helps as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 6942729, member: 6716779"] 3.5+WoW helped crash the D&D market in 2004. They also released 3.5 2 years early presumably to get that core book sales they saw in 2000/2001 and they kind of failed with that. Late 3.5 books apparently were selling very badly as they got more and more niche and quality went down- most of the good 3.5 stuff was 2004-2006. 4E did not do as well as Pathfinder which outsold it and Pathfinder did not out sell 3.5. 3.0 did not outsell 2E although 3.0+3.5 did. In terms of PHB, 2E splat combined outsold everything AFAIK they lost money doing it though and bankrupted TSR (TSR almost went bankrupt twice before this) If you release stuff to fast you have nothing to sell later so they release a new edition and at that rate each edition was selling less than the one before it, 5E has been the 1st one to break that trend since 1983. Think about that for 33 years each edition was getting smaller and smaller. The 1st 3 big splat books in Pathfinder were really good, after that they went downhill. And you don't really want to lug around a heap of books and I own around 400 D&D items. 5Es schedule could be a little higher with 1-2 more books a year without bloating it much. THe less you make though the easier it is to buy all of them ($50 every 6 months vs monthly) and the pent up demand likely helps as well. [/QUOTE]

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