I'm not at the store now, but if people are interested, I could look up lifetime 2014 PHB (or other books) vs current 2024 PHB sales.
Obviously, it won't reflect the industry as a whole (but then again, my store is generally pretty "average" - for a tiny store in a Canadian suburb).
It's kind of a case-by-case thing, isn't it?
One thing I'd love to see: Two entries with the same ingredients where one is a zany romp and the other a dark horror or noir mystery!
That was an exciting round! Thanks to everyone involved for their efforts. It's all more work than it appears from the sidelines.
I'm looking forward to the final round!
My notes, for my store, have the PHB outselling the other two core books (which are roughly equivalent) by between double and two-and-a-half, for the last four revisions. (I no longer have files from before that). This is for lifetime sales.
Near release, they are closer to equivalent than...
I think we can conclude that the initial print runs, which they said were so large that they couldn't print all 3 books at once (which lead to MM24 coming out in 2025), consisted of more copies than existed of the same 2014 books until 2016.
And I can attest that they did NOT meet initial...
That does a bit explain my position on it. As I am part of "the system", I can only really see the current D&D as being particularly important.if it is out of print, it might as well be Dead to Me.
(Barring the occasional collection that comes in, but a "collectable" is a different thing than a...
Interestingly (to me, at least) after making the statement (a few posts back now) that I have never heard anyone say "Five-five" (nor previously "Three-Five") but always with an obvious stress on the word "point", I just listened to a podcast where someone (it was either Mikes Mearls or Shea...
Bjorn's frog-tongue would work just as well as an octopus tentacle. But he can stick back and observe, too.
BTW, everyone in Team Fusion should post for me an updated Status Line after a Short Rest, which you will all get.