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.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

He might want to talk to Bahamut about that.

I think Musk's hoard is bigger then Bahamuts, the Red Dragons in particular might prefer Musk.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I'm getting the impression your not a Kuntz fan?

He's a nobody attacking someone for being honest and truthful, so yeah.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I think Musk's hoard is bigger then Bahamuts, the Red Dragons in particular might prefer Musk.

This is how someone who gets eaten by a Red Dragon thinks, dude. They don't like and aren't impressed by other people with big hoards. They kill them and take those hoards.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

He's a nobody attacking someone for being honest and truthful, so yeah.

Gygax's daughter did point out alot of stuff was taken out of context.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

This is how someone who gets eaten by a Red Dragon thinks, dude. They don't like and aren't impressed by other people with big hoards. They kill them and take those hoards.

Musk the other white meat.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Gygax's daughter did point out alot of stuff was taken out of context.

And we've seen plenty of stuff in context, in Gary's own words, that was sexist as hell. Trying to relegislate this is a bad joke on your part. No amount of handwringing will change a man who was aggressively sexist for decades to "not sexist". People's kids love to try and reframe them as heroic and nice, not matter how vile their views - just look at history for countless examples.

 

[Corinnguard]

I think Musk's hoard is bigger then Bahamuts, the Red Dragons in particular might prefer Musk.

More like the Red Dragons in particular prefer Musk's wealth. Musk would be appetizer.

 

[Superchunk77]

Musk might get Hasbro as a discount, they're currently the target of a class action lawsuit over their share price fiasco. He's just biding his time.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

More like the Red Dragons in particular prefer Musk's wealth. Musk would be appetizer.

I think Musk is the Dragon, all Billionaires are, it's the perfect metaphor.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Musk might get Hasbro as a discount, they're currently the target of a class action lawsuit over their share price fiasco. He's just biding his time.

He can likely also leverage other contacts to make Hasbros life harder.