Salvatore by himself has sold more than twice as many copies of his novels as the total number of all D&D RPG materials sold to date. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, each D&D novel published was guaranteed to sell 350,000 copies in its initial print run alone, with Salvatore and Greenwood comfortably doing a lot more than that. Paul Kemp, Troy Denning, James Lowder, Mary Kirchoff, Elaine Cunningham and Ed Greenwood have also sold millions of copies of books apiece.
The Dragonlance Saga has sales of over 30 million copies alone, whilst Robert Salvatore has sold over 50 million copies worldwide of his novels starring dark elf ranger Drizzt Do'Urden. This was followed up by an incredibly popular novel line which has comfortably sold over 200 million copies. The first of these was the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon series, which ran for three seasons between 19 and was watched by millions of (mostly young) people and still sells impressively on DVD over thirty years later. Thirdly and most importantly, it has had a significant number of very popular spin-offs. Although the scare was ridiculous and died off after a few years, it did raise the game's profile to the point where the name became commonly known.
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Secondly, it engendered a religious scare in the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s among parents concerned about their kids playing a game with demons, magic and fictional deities in it, to the extent of even inspiring a terrible Tom Hanks movie ( Mazes and Monsters). First off is its age and influence as the first, original tabletop roleplaying game, which obviously no-one is going to be able to match. On this basis, although millions of books sold and tens of thousands of regular subscribers paying monthly for new content is nothing to sneeze at, it's still not at the level that would automatically make Hollywood sit up and take notice.ĭungeons and Dragons is extremely well-known for several reasons. However, it's certainly far behind D&D and the various Star Wars RPGs (although given the decades of lead-time those products have over Pathfinder, that's not too surprising). Lifetime sales of Pathfinder are hard to judge, because in addition to the physical book sales (which certainly run to at least a couple of million), Paizo offers a subscription model which provides significant new content every month in the shape of magazines and web-exclusive material. In 2016/17 Pathfinder recovered its sales position by moving back up into 2nd place, helped by the arrival of Starfinder, an SF spin-off. In 2015 it was pushed back into third place by the arrival of Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, which was seen by many as a dramatic return to form, and by Fantasy Flight's Star Wars RPG (whose success was pushed by the new movies). It was the biggest-selling P&P RPG in the world between around 20. On that basis, the sales of Pathfinder are actually quite impressive. It also has unmatched name-recognition among the general public. Of course, D&D is a game where only the Dungeon Master actually needs the rule books and the number of people in a gaming group usually runs from 4 to 6 thus the number of people who have played D&D is far higher than 20 million, but is also impossible to quantify (this extends to all other tabletop RPGs as well, in fact).ĭungeons and Dragons is also an outlier in sales, the only RPG whose new edition rulebooks hit the bestseller lists on a regular basis. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has sales also closing in on 20 million copies, of a single title in a three-game series. It's also modest compared to video games: Skyrim sold 7 million copies on its first day on sale in 2011, with lifetime sales now exceeding 30 million copies (and approaching 50 million of the larger Elder Scrolls series). This is undeniably impressive, but it's also very modest compared to say, novels The Lord of the Rings has sold almost 300 million copies by itself and the Harry Potter series has sold over half a billion copies. Across six major rule sets and editions (along with numerous variant rules and options) published since 1974, incorporating dozens of campaign settings and hundreds of adventures, the entire D&D RPG catalogue has sold just over 20 million copies. The biggest-selling RPG of all time is Dungeons and Dragons. Not as niche as they once were, but certainly compared to films, video games, novels and even board games, they are a relatively small medium. Pen-and-paper roleplaying games are a niche field.
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