The Culture: There Can Never Any Other King Of Tabletop Now

This is why only D&D can kill D&D. All other games and products IN ALL MEDIA are compared to D&D!

This is the Network Effect and the Lindy Effect in action.

This is why Your Indie Darling doesn't mean jack shit; no one talks about some long-forgotten licensed tie-in product in reference to that- only to The Only Game That Matters.

This is why even licensed tie-ins cannot dethrone the one true king. No matter what Wizards of the Coast does, or does not, D&D is and shall ever be the One True King of the Tabletop Hobby. Nothing else even comes close, and now nothing ever will. We have reached the point where the Network Effect, compared to all alternatives, is so dominant that it is now the God-Emperor of the Hobby: forever in power, forever on top, no matter who or what does or does not because no one else can even be bothered to try- both players and publishers alike, each in their own contexts.

Breach the Normiesphere. That's what you have to do, and no alternatives did and sweet fuck-all even try. You have to go into historically-specific corner-cases to find anything at all that to gainsay that (e.g. why Sword World is popular in Japan). Using these to gainsay that fact betrays that you aren't tall enough for this ride. That is all, as Stephan Molyneux said:

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