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.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

We can look at Elon's history and know exactly what would happen. It's not good.

If he does what he did at SpaceX, he'll "officially" be the creator of Dungeons & Dragons. People have actually come to believe that legal fiction with SpaceX, after all.

 

[mamba]

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

she may have said so, but that is not the same as it being so

 

[Horwath]

maybe he will shovel enough money so they can finally fix the Ranger...

 

[Parmandur]

users <> subscribers


yes, once it got into CC

Sure, but every indication ia that there was no long term impact: it has been nearly two years.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

maybe he will shovel enough money so they can finally fix the Ranger...

We all know the ranger's core issues are that it's too woke and that it makes fun of Elon Musk too much.

 

[Corinnguard]

It's on reddit, youtube etc.

On Musk-friendly subreddits and Youtube channels? Musk is more likely to notice something if it showers him with praise than criticism.

 

[ECMO3]

I think this will be the end of pack animals and mounts in the Forgotten Realms. They will be phased out in favor of renewable mounts like Phantom Steed so as to reduce the effects of climate change.

I think the Zhentarim will probably run and monopolize all the Phantom Steed stations. You trot in on your steed and get them to recast it so it can go for another hour, only they won't do it for you if you bought your spell from another vendor. Then you will be SOL because of the extremely limited Phantom Steed infrastructure.

 

[Vaalingrade]

maybe he will shovel enough money so they can finally fix the Ranger...

There is not enough money in the world.

And zero motivation for him when he could go back and use features that can be used to heavily imply racial hatred or the opportunity to force the player to have a shiba inu.

 

[beaumontsebos]

I'm betting Musk will gladly release Star Frontiers: New Genesis.

 

[Mistwell]

Apparently Amazon slashed the price on the book that set Elon off by 50% after he made his buying Hasbro comment. Don't know it's to try boost sales using the attention it's got or they just think it's value drop hard and want to get rid of it I can't say.

It's the reverse. They dropped the price by 50%. the Grognard contingent noticed saying "I'm still not buying it," someone eventually tagged Musk on something I assume because of that conversation highlighting the book, and we were off to the races.

You can see that I bumped the thread yesterday about the book, mentioning it's 50% off for Black Friday (which was all week at Amazon).