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.

 

[MGibster]

Musk has done a great job with Twitter. I don't see why he couldn't take D&D to another level.

 

[Reynard]

I don't see this as anything in danger of actually happening. Entertaining the actual thought for a moment ...

This is basically no better than his "I'm making an AI video game company" thing. It basically means nothing.

He's not a gamedev and wouldn't spend any time on the company so he's mostly meaningless in this context. He would hire someone to run the company in alignment with some kind of philosophy and that person would have some kind of impact. Without knowing who that is, we couldn't even venture a guess if it were good or bad.

I'm pretty sure we could guess what he would want, and whether it would be good or bad, based on the inciting event here.

Spoiler: it would be bad.

 

[billd91]

Musk has done a great job with Twitter. I don't see why he couldn't take D&D to another level.

I didn’t expect Musk to reintroduce level draining to D&D…

 

[Parmandur]

Musk has done a great job with Twitter. I don't see why he couldn't take D&D to another level.

Even knoeing that was sarcasric, I wish I could say that was funny: that would basically be the end of D&D for me. I have enough to play forever on my own, but the idea of D&D being plundered and used that way...disgusting.

 

[cranberry]

He would be 100x worse than the the current Hasbro executives, IMO.

 

[overgeeked]

That's hilarious. Musk is worth $323 billion. Hasbro is worth what...$8-9 billion.

 

[OptionalRule]

He would be 100x worse than the the current Hasbro executives, IMO.

I couldn't imagine what 100x worse could even possibly look like.

 

[OptionalRule]

That's hilarious. Musk is worth $323 billion. Hasbro is worth what...$8 billion.

Hasbor might cost $8B... I'm not sure it's worth it.

 

[cranberry]

I couldn't imagine what 100x worse could even possibly look like.

I could give you examples, but I might get smacked for introducing politics into the thread.

 

[overgeeked]

He would be 100x worse than the the current Hasbro executives, IMO.

Don't sell the man short. He'd be so much worse than that.