TSR Dungeons & Dragons

Numbers of interest to the collector.

In a previous post I made a list of the titles that TSR released for Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Here's how many titles were released for each system:

system
AD&D	660
D&D	148

The "D&D" count includes the six "original" Dungeons & Dragons titles and the Holmes box set.

Next a chart showing number of titles released by year:

The list of titles follows the format of the product chronology by Maliszewski whose list ends in 1988, however. Like him I broke the titles down into four types:

type
accessory	336
adventure	349
boxed set	95
hardcover	28

TSR also made periodicals, dice, miniatures, and sets of cards. I've left those out of the list.

The use of settings as a brand for AD&D titles started in 1984.

setting
no setting	364
Forgotten Realms	130
Greyhawk	65
Ravenloft	64
Dragonlance	48
Planescape	29
Birthright	28
Dark Sun	25
Spelljammer	21
Al-Qadim	14
Lankhmar	13
Mystara (2E)	7

Usually the setting is made clear on the cover, but early modules were sometimes set in Greyhawk and the only indication was a note in the text.

Many D&D titles were set in a world called the "Known World", the "Dungeons & Dragons Game World", or "Mystara". The "Known World" is what Moldvay and Schick called their personal campaign setting. The map in X1 was derived from that setting. The name "Mystara" was first used in 1991 by the Rules Cyclopedia. None of these names were used as brands on the covers of D&D titles. In 1994 TSR converted Mystara to an AD&D 2E setting.