The Business: Copium Huffing In The Conventional Play Crowd

The narrative coming out now is that the Mercer Crew rooked WOTC into cutting them a check.

As a certain wombat is prone to say:

This is flat-out bullshit that Stephan's pushing here.

There is no world where Daggerheart is a threat to The Only Game That Matters. There is no world where the Mercer Crew can try to get some leverage over The Only Tabletop Publisher That Matters by begging on Kickstarter for a print run that miraculously sold through (because it's pathetically small, as is often the case in Tabletop). There is no world where WOTC sponsoring the show is anything but a fucking rounding error for WOTC compared to where the real money is.

In short, this is some Baghdad Bob bullshit to soothe the butthurt of being told that Your Indie Darling Doesn't Pay The Bills, Retard.

Remember that CR is Normie-facing. Normies Only Play D&D. Normies turn off for everything else- even Star Wars (and that was before Kulty Kathy and the Kunty Katty Krew crashed the brand). CR not playing D&D, by their own metrics, was a colossal failure; WOTC knows it, CR knows it, and so does the audience. CR didn't rook shit; CR bent the knee to the One True King.

There is only one game that matters. It has achieved Total Dominance over the hobby, something Conventional Play refuses to accept despite skyscrapers (and decades) of receipts proving it. There is only competition within the Network and its Brand; there can never be any from without.

Just Play D&D.