D&D General IF D&D were for sale ...

[payn]

EA

 

[Micah Sweet]

I’d have no problem with the IP being owned by WotC directly. I think they’ve generally done a good job with the property. For the most part. I don’t really see the value Hasbro add.

The only value added was to Hasbro.

 

[Micah Sweet]

In the words of 80-90s R&B crooner Keith Sweat.

Nobody
Nobody baby

Anyone big enough to buy D&D would treat it worse, not know how to further it, and would lack the lessons learned by WOTC.

Not really in the spirit of the OP though, like many here.

 

[Meech17]

Dropout.

I like Dropout, and I hadn't considered them. They probably would be a good fit. Aabria and Brennan would be good faces for the brand. They are already generally well liked by the newer generation of D&D players.

I’d have no problem with the IP being owned by WotC directly. I think they’ve generally done a good job with the property. For the most part. I don’t really see the value Hasbro add.

This was my answer. From what I've heard D&D used to largely get by on subsidies provided by MTG sales. Now it seems like All of Hasbro is leeching off MTG which is stretching that game to the limits. If WotC only had to deal with those two IPs they could likely let off the gas on MTG a little bit, and still divert more money and energy back into D&D while hopefully driving neither off a cliff.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I like Dropout, and I hadn't considered them. They probably would be a good fit. Aabria and Brennan would be good faces for the brand. They are already generally well liked by the newer generation of D&D players.

This was my answer. From what I've heard D&D used to largely get by on subsidies provided by MTG sales. Now it seems like All of Hasbro is leeching off MTG which is stretching that game to the limits. If WotC only had to deal with those two IPs they could likely let off the gas on MTG a little bit, and still divert more money and energy back into D&D while hopefully driving neither off a cliff.

I love Brennan (pretty much everything he does), but to be honest Aabria's style of DMing really turns me off. She doesn't seem to care about the rules of the game.

 

[Minigiant]

Not really in the spirit of the OP though, like many here.

It is the spirit.

I don't trust anyone to not be greedy if they had the money to buy DnD.

 

[humble minion]

I’d have no problem with the IP being owned by WotC directly. I think they’ve generally done a good job with the property. For the most part. I don’t really see the value Hasbro add.

There hasn’t been a WotC in literal decades that wasn’t just a branch of Hasbro that stuck a different logo on its products and did its social media with a different Twitter handle.

I started up a new D&D group recently. It’s going well so far! Four out of six of the group have only ever known 5th Ed and Hasbro, and that’s who brought them to the game.

 

[Umbran]

For the most part. I don’t really see the value Hasbro add.

I get it, but remember - if you aren't intimately familiar with the internal business workings, you shouldn't expect to see the Hasbro value add. Like, if WotC used Hasbro connections to reduce printing or distribution costs, or if Hasbro reduced the cost of financing, or even employee bnefit packages, we probably wouldn't know that.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I get it, but remember - if you aren't intimately familiar with the internal business workings, you shouldn't expect to see the Hasbro value add. Like, if WotC used Hasbro connections to reduce printing or distribution costs, or if Hasbro reduced the cost of financing, or even employee bnefit packages, we probably wouldn't know that.

Does that mean we should assume there is such a value add? To the game?

 

[Older Beholder]

EA

Lets face it, the best outcome would be for Disney to buy it.

Really make D&D a household name, a Fantasia themed basic set under every child’s Tree by Christmas
A new movie every two years, not to mention 7 TV series on Disney+