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.

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

Making a brainchip mandatory for play, how borg bad could it be?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I do not think we should hide under a rock when people are being attacked for who they are. That's cowardice.

You said the same thing on the other Musk post and, I believe, you're response was more along the lines of not agreeing with the sentiment, is that right? Is this fear of Musk or do you agree with him?

I agree with him on somethings, disagree with him on many others, and I fear all Billionaires, no one should have that kind of power, their mere wealth creates economic distortions even the more kinder ones.

If it's what your getting at, I don't not share his hatred of transfolks. I very much supported legislation protecting Transfolks from violence in Canada, the right to adopt, having the sex on the birth certificate changed, give blood, etc...

 

[Sacrosanct]

He'll turn D&D into FATAL. Sounds ridiculous? Well, in the timeline we're in...

 

[Necropolitan]

I'm sure there's at least one person willing to lend Musk the money to buy Hasbro.

Elon forking over the souls of his followers in a desperate attempt to repay Mammon seems like a good adventure plot.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

He'll turn D&D into FATAL. Sounds ridiculous? Well, in the timeline we're in...

Remind me what is FATAL?

 

[Libertad]

The worst RPG ever made.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

In related news Kuntz compared Tondo to Spaniards invading the Aztec Empire and slaughtering and looting the indigenous population (in this case Grognards), and then pointed out that both Mearls and Jeremy Crawford count as Grognards and that Jeremy Crawford once chased him down to give Kuntz a 5e PHB and signed it and that they were old Greyhawk fans.

So as you can see the situation totally isn't spiraling out of control .

Let's see who loses it on Tondo next. Jeremy Crawford's really got to be freaking out right now, Musk might be his new boss soon if Tondo keeps it up.

 

[Some Dude]

It's X, Bro…

Xungeons & Xragons (tm)

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The worst RPG ever made.

That review was just an endless stream of insults, an impressive stream of insults, but not particularly informative.

 

[MGibster]

Musk buys WotC and names Justin LaNasa lead game developer of D&D!