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<blockquote data-quote="RareBreed" data-source="post: 9177535" data-attributes="member: 6945590">There probably are a ton on DTRPG, but what kind of exposure do they get and popularity do they have?&nbsp; I just checked DTRPG now, and for the top 20 selling best titles, only one of them is what I would consider mundane:&nbsp; Kids on Bikes (which is a kind of riff on Stranger Things).My best friend's father back in the day owned a Hobby store. They sold everything from RC cars, HO scale trains, model rockets, military model kits, and games.&nbsp; They sold mostly historical board games like Panzer Leader, historical miniatures like Johnny Reb (ACW) or Fire and Steel (Napoleonics), and lots of RPGs.One thing I found interesting, was that I was privy to sales numbers, and TSR stuff really didn't fly off the shelves more than some other games.&nbsp; For example, Twilight 2000 sold better than any AD&amp;D stuff.&nbsp; I remember D&amp;D module B9 Castle Caldwell sitting on a shelf literally for years (and I lived in a college town with a lot of students who rotated in and out, so you would have thought someone would have bought it).&nbsp; Perhaps where I lived was unusual, but I always thought that was interesting.&nbsp; But to get back to the point, back in the day, the mundane genre games were front and center in the store and sold fairly well compared with all the other &quot;fantastic&quot; settings like Champions, Elric, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, etc etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RareBreed, post: 9177535, member: 6945590"] There probably are a ton on DTRPG, but what kind of exposure do they get and popularity do they have? I just checked DTRPG now, and for the top 20 selling best titles, only one of them is what I would consider mundane: Kids on Bikes (which is a kind of riff on Stranger Things). My best friend's father back in the day owned a Hobby store. They sold everything from RC cars, HO scale trains, model rockets, military model kits, and games. They sold mostly historical board games like Panzer Leader, historical miniatures like Johnny Reb (ACW) or Fire and Steel (Napoleonics), and lots of RPGs. One thing I found interesting, was that I was privy to sales numbers, and TSR stuff really didn't fly off the shelves more than some other games. For example, Twilight 2000 sold better than any AD&D stuff. I remember D&D module B9 Castle Caldwell sitting on a shelf literally for years (and I lived in a college town with a lot of students who rotated in and out, so you would have thought someone would have bought it). Perhaps where I lived was unusual, but I always thought that was interesting. But to get back to the point, back in the day, the mundane genre games were front and center in the store and sold fairly well compared with all the other "fantastic" settings like Champions, Elric, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, etc etc. [/QUOTE]

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