Jonstown Compendium Best-Sellers, November 2024

[Nick Brooke]

The Black Friday / Cyber Monday Sale hits DriveThruRPG in a week, so let's point you towards our all-time best-sellers. The sale gets you 20-40% discounts on a wide range of digital products; print prices aren't usually affected unless creators decide to do their own thing (which happens). If you order printed hardcovers today, they should arrive before Christmas, but you're cutting it fine (and there's many a slip, etc.). You still have a couple of weeks left to get softcover orders in for pre-Christmas delivery (fingers crossed!).

There are currently five Platinum best-sellers (books with over 1,000 sales) on the Jonstown Compendium:

• Six Seasons in Sartar, by Andrew Logan Montgomery
• The Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass, by Martin Helsdon
• The Duel at Dangerford, by Nick Brooke
• The Company of the Dragon (Six Seasons 2), by Andrew Logan Montgomery
• A Rough Guide to Glamour, by Brooke, Gidlow, Hagen, O'Brien, Richard, Stafford & Friends

There are twenty Gold best-sellers (books with over 500 sales):

• Tales of the Sun County Militia (Sandheart 1), by Jonathan Webb
• Black Spear, by Nick Brooke
• Secrets of HeroQuesting, by Simon Phipp
• The Seven Tailed Wolf (Six Seasons 3), by Andrew Logan Montgomery
• The Corn Dolls & Fortunate Sun (Sandheart 2), by Jonathan Webb & Michael O'Brien
• Legion, by Neil Gibson
• Nochet: Queen of Cities, by Harald Smith
• The Six Paths, by Edan Jones & Katrin Dirim
• Treasures of Glorantha: V1: Dragon Pass, by Austin Conrad & Friends
• New Pavis: City on the Edge of Forever, by Ian Thompson & Friends
• DuckPac, Book 1: Lore, Legends and Myths, by Neil Gibson & Drew Baker
• Tradition (Sandheart 3), by Jonathan Webb
• Citizens of the Lunar Empire, by Chris Gidlow
• Blue Moon, White Moon, by John Wick 🔻
• Secrets of Dorastor, by Simon Phipp
• Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela, by Martin Helsdon, Mark Smylie & Katrin Dirim
• Men of the West, by Martin Helsdon
• Furthest: Crown Jewel of Lunar Tarsh, by Simon Bray
• The Dregs of Clearwine, by the Beer With Teeth collective
• Heortlings of Sartar (Monster of the Month), by Austin Conrad 🔻

Both lists run from most sales to fewest. At the top end of the scale, Six Seasons in Sartar has sold almost 2,000 copies (c. 1,300 digital and 700 print), and Tales of the Sun County Militia is within 100 sales of Platinum (c. 640 digital and 270 print).

Almost all titles are available as print-on-demand books (and yes, as a POD champion I feel smug about this): I've marked the two outliers thus: 🔻.

Almost all of these are in the RuneQuest Scenarios or Glorantha Sourcebooks categories of my Jonstown Compendium Catalogue: the only one that isn't is Heortlings of Sartar, from the Monster of the Month series.

There are currently 51 Electrum best-sellers (over 250 sales), 124 Silver (over 100), 77 Copper (over 50) and 140 releases that have sold 50 copies or fewer (NB: 102 of those last 140 are maps and 17 are art, inc. artpacks & art books).

Total titles: 417. Total sales: c. 66,000. None of these figures include free or at-cost sales. I'm counting some things that have been removed from sale: if you do your own analysis and can't get it to add up, that's probably why.

[Nick Brooke]

Links and further information:

• Here's a 7-page free catalogue ($0) briefly detailing the thirty best-selling Jonstown Compendium titles in the last 12 months.
   
• Here's a 70-page regularly-updated index ($2.50) fully detailing every Jonstown Compendium release since 1 October 2023, with quarterly best-seller charts for 2024 at the back.
   
• Here's a 210-page catalogue and paperback book ($3.50 digital / $11.95 print) fully detailing all the Jonstown Compendium releases from the first four years of the programme (i.e. everything up to 31 December 2023), with oodles of best-seller charts at the back. 

Edited November 22 by Nick Brooke