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Why is the shortest lived edition, still one of the most popular?
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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 7592395" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>Most popular based on sales. The red box sold over a million units, some say 1.5 million plus (only 1E comes close/beats it). No one really knows how many it sold (TSR records were very bad)</p><p></p><p> During the golden age adjusted for inflation TSR revenue (27 million dollars in 1983) was higher than the estimated size of the RPG market now. Biggest selling adventure of all time (Keep on the Borderlands).</p><p></p><p> And then you work out that 1E and B/X were on sale at the same time so each line sold more than all the other D&Ds (except maybe 5E). Hell they almost sold more than all the other D&Ds put together. Two D&Ds at the same time each one of which outsold all the other D&Ds.</p><p></p><p> It was also well written and clearly presented, it did a lot of 5E things 30 years earlier, AD&D never really got to that point until 2E perhaps. Conceptually you can see a lot of B/X and 2E-4E in 5E (not much 1E that I can make out).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 7592395, member: 6716779"] Most popular based on sales. The red box sold over a million units, some say 1.5 million plus (only 1E comes close/beats it). No one really knows how many it sold (TSR records were very bad) During the golden age adjusted for inflation TSR revenue (27 million dollars in 1983) was higher than the estimated size of the RPG market now. Biggest selling adventure of all time (Keep on the Borderlands). And then you work out that 1E and B/X were on sale at the same time so each line sold more than all the other D&Ds (except maybe 5E). Hell they almost sold more than all the other D&Ds put together. Two D&Ds at the same time each one of which outsold all the other D&Ds. It was also well written and clearly presented, it did a lot of 5E things 30 years earlier, AD&D never really got to that point until 2E perhaps. Conceptually you can see a lot of B/X and 2E-4E in 5E (not much 1E that I can make out). [/QUOTE]
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