D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

Following the richest man in the world's attack on Wizards of the Coast for two paragraphs in the 500-page celebration of D&D, The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970-1977, Elon Musk--who bought Twitter not that long ago--wants to know how much D&D's owner Hasbro would cost.

After the public sharing on Twitter of Jason Tondro's (who wrote the book’s foreword) private Facebook posts, Musk replied "How much is Hasbro?"

Hasbro's estimated capitalization is currently $8.71 billion, with $3.95 billion of debt.

It was on 21st December 2017 when Musk similarly enquired "How much is it?" before proceeding to make a bid for Twitter. He later tried to back out of the deal, but was forced to buy the platform for $44 billion in June 2022. Current estimates by investment firm Fidelity put the platform at a value 80% less than when he bought it, with a worth of only about $9.4 billion.

 

[Mecheon]

My prediction of what would happen?
Step 1: Rename D&D to X2.
Step 2: Fire everyone who knows what they're doing
Step 3: Return X2 to it's glory days of misogamy, racism and biases
Step 4: Publish only AI generated product in the name of efficiency
Step 5: Brag about the ashes created by the burning corpse of the company

Don't forget Step 6: Give ever D&D competitor a massive boost as D&D's popularity drops so hard even the 4E haters start remembering those being days it was more popular

Yes, but I doubt he will try to buy Hasbro.

I mean, let's be honest, he didn't intend to buy Twitter but mouthed off hard enough he got stuck in a legal contract to actually do so

Which is why folks are concerned, becuase he's the type of idiot who'll just go 'yeah i'll pay 100 billion for this'

 

[Henadic Theologian]

You all are deep in denial, I TOLD YOU THIS WAS A STRONG POSSIBLITY, BUT YOU ALL SHRUGGED ME OFF.

It still might not have happened, but TONDO HAD TO POKE THE MUSK BEAR WITH HIS SHOT AT GROGNARDS after the dust had been settling.

Why? Why? Do you don't not realize how powerful and wealth Musk is? It's not just Telsa and Twitter, the dude has so many US & other government contracts with Musk it's crazy. Star-Link, Space Z, that freaking Cyberpunk brain chip, etc....,

If Musk rage buys Hasbro, you can blame Tondo.

Musk could sell a tiny fraction of his Telsa stock and as long as he made his reason public that it was to buy Hasbro it'd barely harm Telsa's stock price.

This is mostly Tondo's fault, hope he likes Musk as his new boss.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Not to the banks Musk would need to actually give him the tender, nope.

They'd give it to Musk to keep Musk's vindictive BFF happy, not that he needs too, just sell a small amount of Telsa shares, done.

 

[Hussar]

If Musk rage buys Hasbro, you can blame Tondo.

Wow. That's just ... wow.

Now I understand all the misplaced anger at WotC. It makes so much more sense when you see something like this.

 

[Morrus]

You all are deep in denial, I TOLD YOU THIS WAS A STRONG POSSIBLITY, BUT YOU ALL SHRUGGED ME OFF.

It still might not have happened, but TONDO HAD TO POKE THE MUSK BEAR WITH HIS SHOT AT GROGNARDS after the dust had been settling.

Why? Why? Do you don't not realize how powerful and wealth Musk is? It's not just Telsa and Twitter, the dude has so many US & other government contracts with Musk it's crazy. Star-Link, Space Z, that freaking Cyberpunk brain chip, etc....,

If Musk rage buys Hasbro, you can blame Tondo.

Musk could sell a tiny fraction of his Telsa stock and as long as he made his reason public that it was to buy Hasbro it'd barely harm Telsa's stock price.

This is mostly Tondo's fault, hope he likes Musk as his new boss.

No, we just thought your power fantasy and Musk fetish were a bit weird.

 

[Mecheon]

Why? Why? Do you don't not realize how powerful and wealth Musk is? It's not just Telsa and Twitter, the dude has so many US & other government contracts with Musk it's crazy. Star-Link, Space Z, that freaking Cyberpunk brain chip, etc....,

He's a ragebait tourist. He isn't powerful. Wealthy, sure, but he's not powerful.

It still might not have happened, but TONDO HAD TO POKE THE MUSK BEAR WITH HIS SHOT AT GROGNARDS after the dust had been settling.

Oh come off it. We don't need to avoid posting about history because we might offend people like Musk. The truth should get out there and we shouldn't hide it so some soft-skinned billionare might be upset

 

[Maxperson]

It's X, Bro…

D&D neXt?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Don't forget Step 6: Give ever D&D competitor a massive boost as D&D's popularity drops so hard even the 4E haters start remembering those being days it was more popular


I mean, let's be honest, he didn't intend to buy Twitter but mouthed off hard enough he got stuck in a legal contract to actually do so

Which is why folks are concerned, becuase he's the type of idiot who'll just go 'yeah i'll pay 100 billion for this'

Don't bet on it, I mean yeah some fans will be lost, but others may be picked up, you could see an explosion of Musk fan boys buying D&D products in large numbers.

Honestly I'm personally going no where until see what he does with it. If I don't like I'll bail then, but I'll give him a chance.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

He's a ragebait tourist. He isn't powerful. Wealthy, sure, but he's not powerful.


Oh come off it. We don't need to avoid posting about history because we might offend people like Musk. The truth should get out there and we shouldn't hide it so some soft-skinned billionare might be upset

Wealth is power and he has massive connections as well. There is no one who could stop him from buying Hasbro, I just don't get the denial.

People at Twitter thought that too.

 

[Parmandur]

They'd give it to Musk to keep Musk's vindictive BFF happy, not that he needs too, just sell a small amount of Telsa shares, done.

Actually, it would cause a major problem for Tesla share value. If he says he is doing it to buy a large toy company deep im debt for meme lols that alone could cause a sell-off.