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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