About
Trusight, THE trendwatch for D&D
What Trusight is
Trusight is a free, one-person passion project that tracks what the Dungeons & Dragons community is interested in: what players and DMs search for, read, talk about and play.
It’s meant as a resource for everyone who loves the game. Players and DMs can see what’s catching on. Creators and publishers can see what fans are asking for. And for franchises that might suit a D&D crossover, it shows how interested D&D fans already are in each.
Trusight is free and will stay free: no paywall, no subscriptions, no ads. It’s an independent fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.
Trusight is being retooled and reorganized. Reports and more features are on the way.
Why I built it
I want D&D to win. I started with the Basic Set in 1981, came back with 3.5, and have played, DMed and theorycrafted ever since. Trusight is one of several free projects I’m building for the community, alongside a browser-based combat simulator. Everything I make is meant to help players, DMs, publishers and Wizards alike.
— Phil J.
What data we collect
Public information about D&D and the hobby around it, from the kinds of source below.
- Search
Google Trends
How much people search for D&D topics, compared over time.
- Wikis
Fandom, Wikipedia
Which wiki articles are most active, and how often Wikipedia articles are read.
- Community discussion
Reddit, forum sites
What players and DMs talk about, and how they feel about it.
- Video
YouTube
What D&D creators publish.
- Games
Steam, BoardGameGeek, RPGGeek
Player counts for video games, and owners and ratings for board games and RPGs.
- Fan fiction
Archive of Our Own
How many works fans write about a setting or franchise.
- Homebrew
homebrew collections
How much homebrew content fans make for a setting or franchise.
- Retail
online retailers
Which D&D products and third-party supplements are listed and selling.
- Crowdfunding
crowdfunding sites
Which tabletop projects launch and how they are backed.
Some sources are described by kind rather than by name. Source names are available on request: phil@trusightdata.ai.
How Trusight uses AI
I use AI to help build Trusight, which is why the domain is .ai.
Sage, the assistant on our pages, answers questions from this data using a Google Gemini model, then checks its own answer against the data it was given. Sage is for signed-in visitors, up to 22 questions a day. Its answers are AI-generated.