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.

 

[Zardnaar]

First Triumvirate burn!

Would has 99 big problems. 126 of them are Social media.

 

[M_Natas]

Hrm, who at Hasbro/WotC has the power in case of threat over a Company take over to Release everything (all of D&D and even Magic) into public Domain?

Ah, but no matter - at least it would get me motivated to go back to create my own Creative Commens RPG - Chaos Commons! - with Black Magic and Horrors.

 

[Maxperson]

I am still shrugging you off. Consider yourself shrugged. I shrug at you.

You shrug in his general direction?

 

[overgeeked]

Hrm, who at Hasbro/WotC has the power in case of threat over a Company take over to Release everything (all of D&D and even Magic) into public Domain?

Literally no one. It's a publicly traded company. They have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits. They would literally sell to Satan before they'd release anything into the public domain.

Ah, but no matter - at least it would get me motivated to go back to create my own Creative Commens RPG - Chaos Commons! - with Black Magic and Horrors.

Insert bender.gif here.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Elon Musk buying Hasbro would suddenly make a lot of people be very happy we went through the OGL crisis, I suspect. And everyone complaining that Tales of the Valiant is too close to 5E D&D would suddenly be singing its praises as a safe haven.

That said, he says a lot of stupid stuff. For once, this particular stuff won't get him in trouble with the SEC, like saying he's going to sell Tesla stock for $420 (because high school marijuana jokes are about as sophisticated as his humor gets).

It's likely that something new and shiny will distract him shortly.

 

[briggart]

I have more than enough unused D&D stuff, from this and previous editions, from TSR, WotC and third party, to last me for the rest of my life. I don't care too much if Musks buys Hasbro and throws it down the drain. My main concern would be for Hasbro employees.

 

[bedir than]

Literally no one. It's a publicly traded company. They have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits. They would literally sell to Satan before they'd release anything into the public domain.

Stares at the 5.1 SRD in the CC

Nothing about their fiduciary responsibility prevents them from releasing the other promised versions into the CC

 

[Some Dude]

Elon Thread II: Electric Vehicle Boogaloo

 

[M_Natas]

Literally no one. It's a publicly traded company. They have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits. They would literally sell to Satan before they'd release anything into the public domain.

Insert bender.gif here.

Ah, hrm.
Completely unrelated to current events, I want to open an Investment Company specialised in the entertainment and toy sector and looking for people who want to invest roughly 4,1 billion$ for a start. Anyone interested?

 

[Older Beholder]

I'm not saying that he won't buy Hasbro, because he does come across as that petty.
But, it seems like this is just him trying to threaten someone for saying something he didn't like.

It's almost like a guy that is always pushing free speech is trying to stop people speaking freely.