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.

 

[Black Dougal]

He should buy Palladium instead...

 

[Muso]

But am I the only one who is terrified of the implications of this?

 

[Sulicius]

But am I the only one who is terrified of the implications of this?

My biggest worry would be him doing it, ruining it all and forever branding TTRPG's as "that hobby for Muskrat stans".

Right now we have more new player interest than ever, and the TTRPG community is still flourishing. I don't want to see that ruined.

 

[Mecheon]

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we live in a capitalist hellscape. Money is power. And Musk is the richest man on the planet. That’s a lot of power.

His reputation does preceed him, however

Like there's one thing of "Billionare oil tycoon who no one outside of the industry attempts to buy Hasbro" and then there's Musk, who's a history of vague 'yeah i'll buy the thing (never does)' threats into the ether, says something

He's destroyed a lot of the power he used to have by being vocal and not shutting up

 

[darjr]

I’ve been wanting to run more something else anyway.

 

[Black Dougal]

His reputation does preceed him, however

Like there's one thing of "Billionare oil tycoon who no one outside of the industry attempts to buy Hasbro" and then there's Musk, who's a history of vague 'yeah i'll buy the thing (never does)' threats into the ether, says something

He's destroyed a lot of the power he used to have by being vocal and not shutting up

I'd agree if you had said he's destroyed his brand or maybe he morphed his brand depending on your point of view BUT to play devil's advocate, he's hanging with the new admin and depending on how things move forward he may have gained a whole heck of a lot more power.

I'd say he destroyed the "Tony Stark Genius Who is Going to Save the Environment and Go to Mars" brand but gained a heck of a lot of actual power

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Truly the darkest timeline. D&D goes to dudebro country, no diversity allowed, all grimdark. Horrible. I would laugh, but after Twitter became White Supremacy heaven, I don't think I can anymore.

 

[trappedslider]

It certainly would cut down the companies/people we hate list and on the other hand it would add to the "ruined D&D forever list" so I guess that would even out.

 

[mamba]

I'd say he destroyed the "Tony Stark Genius Who is Going to Save the Environment and Go to Mars" brand but gained a heck of a lot of actual power

eh, he is the head of a nonexistent department for at most 18 months. Nothing he says in that role has more weight than without that role.

Sure, Trump will listen to him more than Biden would, but given the clown show this new administration will be either way, I am not so sure that he will make much of an impression

 

[Maxperson]

Sounds like a porn parody of D&D.

Xungeons & Xragons(tmi)?