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but not by talking the laws into looking the other way / cooperating

agreed, they are called laws for a reason however ;)

sure, the two are unrelated

where did they make that claim? All I see it ‘1e had more sales’

that would severely limit what the Bard or Sorcerer can cast though, I can see how Fireball is some applied weird science, I don’t think you can sweet-talk the air into producing one however, no matter how persuasive you are ;) And don’t get me started on Strength or Dexterity DC20 style

12 * 100k * 12… but of course that is wildly overcounting Found this (emphasis mine) That gives us about 7.5M copies during the 1e lifetime (77 - 88). Not sure why I should assign all of it to 1e though when BECMI did just as well… so that is an inflated 4M allocated to 1e then :D

sure, give me those numbers and I need more than PHB and DMG alone to beat 1e, but it remains beat. We excluded magazines, I see no reason to include them, apples and oranges. Alternatively I add digital sales and DMsGuild as my lemon to the mix ;) You already give yourself a bit of an...

yes, but then it is US only, so missing all international sales, so I went with 25% instead of 33% (and anything beyond that really is buffer…). Even if you go with those percentages 5e US outsold 1e worldwide

the early bird deal, but I am not at all certain that I won't cancel my pledge before the end of the KS :D

yes, but I never claimed otherwise, your claim was simply false...

sure, Bookscan is about 25% of US sales, TSR numbers are 100% of worldwide sales. Stop equating the two. Done... So going by your numbers I get a conservative PHB 6.5M 5e vs 1.6M 1e DMG 3.2M 5e vs 1.3M 1e MM 3.2M 5e vs 1.1M 1e Sets: 6.5M 5e vs 3M 1e/Basic

you keep forgetting that Bookscan is about a quarter of US sales while the TSR numbers are all of it, worldwide....

definitely for those, but the hardcovers at a minimum sold in bookstores too I think most of TSR stuff was sold through bookstores back then, getting the deal with Random House was important for them regardless of the novels, in fact they signed them way before they had novels (1979)

I agree with all of this, I just think the 'older generation' of designers has not always adopted to the new world yet, and it shows in their KS results

all of them are, some are below a third....